Companies That Did "Whatever it Takes" to Succeed

Do Like Steve Jobs Did: Don’t Follow Your Passion

Steve Jobs didn’t start Apple because he loved technology. This excerpt from “So Good They Can’t Ignore You” tells the much messier story behind the old saying, “do what you love.”

Elon Musk and the Question of Overconfidence

Is Charlie Munger right to be afraid of Elon Musk and his great confidence? An interesting thought from Elon's former partner helps us think about it.

Airbnb admits to gaming Craigslist, blames rogue contractors

Social bed and breakfast startup Airbnb has enjoyed a fair amount of buzzworthy press recently with the announcement of Ashton Kutcher as the company’s new strategic adviser and a $100 million mega-round of investment speculated to close soon.

How Paypal and Reddit faked their way to traction - Platform Thinking - Medium

There were several factors that contributed to YouTubebecoming the #1 video sharing service on the web. But a lot of initial adoption was driven by the fact that it had pirated content hosted on it. If you wanted to watch the latest episode of Lost for free, YouTube was your best bet: no queued downloading through torrents, just stream it from the server.

Growing Reddit - Web Development

This video is part of an online course, Web Development. Check out the course here: https://www.udacity.com/course/cs253.

How Bad Do You Want It? (Success) HD

"When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you'll be successful" Speech by Eric Thomas (AKA ET The Hip Hop Preacher). Inspirational video ...

Young Elon Musk featured in documentary about millionaires (1999)

HD - Rocky Balboa (2006) - inspirational speech

Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very mean and nasty place and I don't care how tough you are it...

Bootstrapping your Business (Resources)

Before you jump on to the fundraising frenzy bandwagon, make sure you understand what you could be getting yourself into. You were warned.