Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.
– Rosa Luxemburg
The best startups almost have to start as side projects, because great ideas tend to be such outliers that your conscious mind would reject them as ideas for companies.
If you can identify a delusional popular belief, you can find what lies hidden behind it: the contrarian truth.
– Peter Thiel
The most fundamental problem of politics is not the control of wickedness but the limitation of righteousness.
In which industry does the US enjoy a globally dominant, almost unassailable position? No, it is not technology, pharmaceuticals, defence or aerospace. The one sector in which US dominance is near-absolute is higher education. Every year, some 80% of the…
Entrepreneurs innovate. Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. It is the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth. Innovation, indeed, creates a resource. There is no such thing as a ‘resource’ until man finds a use for something in nature and then endows it with economic value. Until then, every plant is a weed and every mineral just another rock.
Design is about crafting an experience that is unfamiliar enough to feel novel, yet familiar enough to instill confidence.
“The whole process where people get an idea and put together a team, raise the capital, create a product and mainstream it — that can only be done in the U.S. It can’t be done sitting in India. The Indian part…