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On not fearing building something of your own

If you’re a hacker who has thought of one day starting a startup, there are probably two things keeping you from doing it. One is that you don’t know anything about business. The other is that you’re afraid of competition. Neither of these fences have any current in them.

– Paul Graham, The Other Road Ahead , quoted in an A List Apart article An Important Time for Design as… “…probably the single most important lesson designers need to internalize as they undertake a realignment of their own.”

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