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In its emptiness, there is the function of a startup

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Lao Tzu suggests the answer is “yes,” because the functionality of the ship — the “emptiness” created by those boards — is the essence of the ship. Can’t be the metrics, they’ll change by orders of magnitude. Can’t be the office space, Lao Tzu already pointed that out.

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the world without altgate

Altgate

One metric that jumped out at me is the global reach.  .  There was a similar growth in terms of RSS subscribers, finishing with about 750 (although Feedburner "lost" about 400 of them this morning which I assume will be "found" tomorrow).