Peter Thiel's (with Blake Masters) Zero to One has been on my reading list for a while.
A random check on its availability at the local public library revealed it was actually available on the shelves! SO, a quick saunter to 658.11 THI, checkout, done.
At page 21 at the moment. Thus far has been a re-run of the boom-bust Internet 90's. Having been through that cycle myself, didn't learn anything new, but it was down a nostalgic road nonetheless. Including the reminder of the Mosaic browser, which I remember using back in school and building a CGI-based thing to extract metrics from any C/C++ source code you submit to the system.
ANYWAYS, back to Thiel.
So a contrarian view, of his, for startups that's resonated with me thus far:
- It is better to risk boldness than triviality
- A bad plan is better than no plan
- Competitive markets destroy profits
- Sales matters just as much as product
:: More to come ::
