By Larry Chiang
When your brand new kicks get stepped on, that is your shoes getting scruffed.
Entrepreneurship is about stepping on toes and making waves.
[See Duster the dolphin, on my Facebook wall post on Roelof Botha’s wall, 2008]
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Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) |
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“permissionless innovation” reminds me of #cs183yC‘s required reading ‘Without Their Permission’
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Benedict Evans (@BenedictEvans) |
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That 5bn people have a phone & 2.5bn already have a smartphone is a huge achievement of, mostly, free markets and permissionless innovation.
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Permission.

Forgiveness.
There is a blog post I wrote which engineers an entrepreneurship method where you do not need to ask permission nor forgiveness. Bonus if you google it and link to it in the comments.



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