fk the real world

I recommend this video I found in David Reche’s blog.

It’s interesting and fun: David Heinemeier (the Ruby on Rails creator) talking about the real world, ideas, execution and his tips in starting a business (not a startup!).

Some of my notes:

Fact: nobody knows the future.

- It doesn´t help trying to write it down in a paper

Business Plan: if you have to write it´s probably too complex

They’ll tell you “You need documents, DOCUMENTS, DOCUMEENTS!!! otherwise you´re not a real business”

- His Business plan: package up a product that people want enough that they want to pay you. Take profits home and enjoy.

Say NO

There’s not rockstars, what we have is a rockstar environment: we allow people to be the best they can be. We break the fundamental rule of all business policies: we assume that our employees are not liars or stupids. We try to hire reasonable people in the first place

Fuck doing a startup. Start a business!

Marc Andreessen’s opinions on everything

Many interesting ideas in this Marc Andreessen’s video about what’s happening in the Valley and the startup ecosystem (past, present and future). Great coneversation.

These are the 4 ideas I considered more remarkable:

- The crisis is not affecting Silicon Valley that much because companies here don’t work with debt, they have equity

- We should let traditional banks die and create a new wave of virtual-online-banks.

- Kill the print edition. The game is over. The New York Times should stop the printing business and go 100% online.

- Innovation is actually alive and well (Cloud Computing, Facebook, Wii…). It’s a cascading. It’s a layering effect. Every layer of new technology makes another layer of innovation

Find the complete transcript at TechCrunch.com