How great entrepreneurs think

Good read from Inc Magazine.

One of the quotes:

"I always live by the motto of 'Ready, fire, aim.' I think if you spend too much time doing 'Ready, aim, aim, aim,' you're never going to see all the good things that would happen if you actually started doing it. I think business plans are interesting, but they have no real meaning, because you can't put in all the positive things that will occur...If you know intrinsically that this is possible, you just have to find out how to make it possible, which you can't do ahead of time."

Last day to vote!

We spend a lot of time on design at Airbnb. We want to make it easy to list and book rooms all around the world. All the hours, sketches, mock-ups, prototypes, sweat, iterations, debates, and tests that go into making the site beautiful have …

We spend a lot of time on design at Airbnb. We want to make it easy to list and book rooms all around the world. All the hours, sketches, mock-ups, prototypes, sweat, iterations, debates, and tests that go into making the site beautiful have combined to a nomination for "Best Design of 2010". The Crunchies, as they're called, are like the Emmy's for the internet. It's an honor to be a finalist for such a distinction. If you have 5 seconds, and you appreciate Airbnb's design, you can vote here. You can cast one per day until Jan 19. Here's a glance at some design from 2010: iPhone app, re-designed search results, Collections, and How it Works video.

Thanks in advance; your vote will help "Keep Airbnb Beautiful".

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37 Signals has a brief but poignant post about the five word line found inside the packaging of each Apple product. My first mac was a G4 in 1999 and I don't actually recall reading it upon opening the box. In the years to come, it became standa…

37 Signals has a brief but poignant post about the five word line found inside the packaging of each Apple product. My first mac was a G4 in 1999 and I don't actually recall reading it upon opening the box. In the years to come, it became standard issue inside each subsequent Apple package. They usually position the statement to be the first text one reads when opening an Apple box. The sentence is both a forewarning of what's to come in the unboxing process, as well as a broadcast of their core value, design.