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Introduction
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Adam Nash
- Be a Great Product Leader
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Adam Rifkin
- Be Lucky
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Alexia Tsotsis
- Keeping Up With The Normals
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Andrew Dubber
- How long should music copyright be?
- Should I be worried about piracy?
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Andy Weissman
- Information Does Not Want To Be Free
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Auren Hoffman
- Fail to Succeed
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Barry Ritholtz
- Why Foreclosure Fraud Is So Dangerous to Property Rights
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Brad Feld
- This Is The Smell Of Inevitability
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Bryce Roberts
- Ten Years of Innovation Highlighted in One Night
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Caterina Fake
- FOMO and Social Media
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Chris Dixon
- Some lessons learned
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Chris Sacca
- Shhhh . . . Listen . . .
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Cory Doctorow
- Secret documents reveal the flimsy case for Ofcom to give into BBC's public TV DRM demands
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Cory Ondrejka
- Big Brother versus Little Brother
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danah boyd
- Social Steganography: Learning to Hide in Plain Sight
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Danny Sullivan
- If Google Was New York City & Online Piracy Was Knock-Off Handbags\ldots {
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Dave McClure
- Subscriptions are the New BLACK. (+ why Facebook, Google, & Apple will own your wallet by 2015)
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David Hornik
- Isn't "Hypomanic Entrepreneur" Redundant
- VCitis
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David Pakman
- Wither the Giants? The Arrogance of Aging Incumbents
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David Shen
- Steve Jobs on Design: Explicit vs. Implicit Authority, Authority is Earned
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Derek Slater
- Piracy Invades Privacy, Encourages Cyberbullying, and Creates a Thriving Artistic Culture; Or, Compassion for The Winnebago Man and Robert Levine
- Powellâ^^80^^99s Four Freedoms and Obamaâ^^80^^99s Line of Commercial/Noncommercial Demarcation
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Elad Gil
- You Don't Need A Good Idea To Start A Great Company
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Eric Ries
- The Visionary's Lament
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Erick Schonfeld
- The Cambrian Explosion In Startups
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Ethan Kaplan
- The Problem with "Like" and the Loss of Love
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FAKEGRIMLOCK
- STARTUP IS VISION
- MINIMUM VIABLE PERSONALITY
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Fred Wilson
- Investing In The Cultural Revolution
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Hiten Shah
- You're Mentoring the Wrong Way
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Howard Lindzon
- Too 'SMALL' To Fail!!!
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Hunter Walk
- Sorry Mike, Facebook could reboot and we'd mess it up again
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ian c rogers
- How About This Instead Of Sopa? My Proposal For Legislation To Proactively Combat Piracy While Encouraging An Open And Innovative Internet
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Jason Cohen
- Why I feel like a fraud
- When free markets make it worse: new TLDs
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Jenna Bilotta
- How designers and engineers can play nice (and still run with scissors)
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Joel Spolsky
- Two things about SOPA/PIPA & then I'll shut up :)
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John Lilly
- Kit
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Josh Kopelman
- Founders and Heat Seeking Missiles
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Joshua Brown
- The Man Behind the Curtain
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Ken Norton
- How to hire a product manager
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Marc Andreessen
- How to hire the best people you've ever worked with
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Margaret Stewart
- Hard-earned career advice
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Mark Suster
- What Makes an Entrepreneur? Four Letters: JFDI
- Whose Life are You Going to Change?
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Mathew Ingram
- MegaUpload case proves we don't need SOPA or PIPA
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MG Siegler
- Pushing The Envelope, Not The Share Button
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Michael Geist
- The Day the Internet Fought Back
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Mike Loukides
- On pirates and piracy: The media industry's wholesale takeover of creativity is the real piracy
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Mike Masnick
- The Future Of Music Business Models (And Those Who Are Already There)
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Nat Torkington
- "The President's challenge: What more does government want --- or deserve --- from the tech world?"
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Nilofer Merchant
- Silence Hurts
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Peter Armstrong
- Lean Publishing
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Rachel Sklar
- Fair Use: Okay, Let's Talk About It
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Reginald Braithwaite
- I have a bad feeling about this
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rohit sharma
- On Startup Values
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Ryan Spoon
- 11 Ways to Usher the NFL, NBA, MLB into the New Web
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Sarah Lacy
- The Chilling Story of Genius in a Land of Chronic Unemployment
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Semil Shah
- The Illusion of Social Networks
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Tim Ferriss
- Scientific Speed Reading: How to Read 300% Faster in 20 Minutes
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Tim O'Reilly
- SOPA and PIPA are bad industrial policy
- Before Solving a Problem, Make Sure You've Got the Right Problem
- Further thoughts on SOPA, and why Congress shouldn't listen to lobbyists
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Trevor Timm
- How PIPA and SOPA Violate White House Principles Supporting Free Speech and Innovation
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Whitney Johnson
- Disrupt Yourself
Uncensored
A Charitable Project to Support The Open Internet
About
About the Book
The recent debates around SOPA/PIPA legislation emphasized the importance of free expression. As citizens of the Internet we have a collective responsibility to determine the future of the technology underpinning so much of our modern lives. The authors included here stepped up to contribute their support to the pursuit of digital rights. All profits from this ebook will be donated to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (https://www.eff.org/). The payment processing fees are 30 cents and 2.9% of every sale; the rest goes to the EFF. Our goal is to earn exactly $0 on this.
This volume contains blog posts - some old, some new - from many names familiar to you and hopefully some new voices. We will continue to provide free updates to your purchase with new content as we are able to collect it from authors of interest. If you want to suggest an author please send their contact information to hunterwalk+eff@gmail.com.
Author
About the Authors
Hunter Walk
When not baking thumbprint cookies, Hunter lives in San Francisco with his wife and daughter, making stuff at YouTube. You can follow him on Twitter via @hunterwalk.
Eric Ries
Eric Ries is the author of the lean startup methodology and a frequent public speaker. He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). While an undergraduate at Yale Unviersity, he co-founded Catalyst Recruiting. Although Catalyst folded with the dot-com crash, Ries continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com, leading efforts in agile software development and user-generated content. In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. He serves on the advisory board of a number of technology startups, and has worked as a consultant to a number of startups, companies, and venture capital firms.
Contents
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Contributors
About the Contributors
Ryan Spoon
I’m Ryan Spoon. I work for Polaris Venture Partners and am based in San Francisco’s Dog Patch Lab off Pier 38. Previously, I founded beRecruited.com (acquired in 2007), spent 2003-2007 at eBay (internet marketing, social media & leading Kijiji.com) and launched InGameNow as part of sfEntrepreneurs, LLC. Most recently, I lead marketing at Widgetbox.com.
Sarah Lacy
Writes for PandoDaily, a news site which she founded, and is the author of “Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0” (Gotham Books, May 2008) and “Brilliant, Crazy, Cocky: How the Top 1% of Entrepreneurs Profit from Global Chaos" (Wiley, February 2011).
Andy Weissman
Andy Weissman is a partner at Union Square Ventures. Andy began his career in the Internet at AOL in the mid-90s, then managed a series of venture funds with Dawntreader Ventures. In 2007 he co-founded betaworks, which both created and invested in social, real-time applications and services.
Marc Andreessen
Marc Andreessen is a co-founder and general partner of the venture capital firm, Andreessen Horowitz.
He is also co-founder and chairman of Ning and an investor in several startups including Digg, Plazes, and Twitter. He is an active member of the blogging community.
Previously, Andreessen developed Mosaic and co-founded Netscape.
Rachel Sklar
Rachel Sklar is a writer and social entrepreneur based in New York. She is the founder of Change The Ratio, which increases visibility and opportunity for women in tech & new media, and was a founding editor at Mediaite and the Huffington Post. A former lawyer who writes about media, politics, culture & technology, she speaks widely at conferences, on panels and on TV. And tweets. Rachel is a TechStars mentor, an advisor to several startups and an encyclopedia of showtunes.
Causes
Causes Supported
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Defending your civil liberties in a digital world.
https://www.eff.org/Based in San Francisco, EFF is a donor-supported membership organization working to protect fundamental rights regardless of technology.
From the Internet to the iPod, technologies are transforming our society and empowering us as speakers, citizens, creators, and consumers. When our freedoms in the networked world come under attack, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is the first line of defense. EFF broke new ground when it was founded in 1990—well before the Internet was on most people's radar—and continues to confront cutting-edge issues defending free speech, privacy, innovation, and consumer rights today. From the beginning, EFF has championed the public interest in every critical battle affecting digital rights.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Defending your civil liberties in a digital world.
https://www.eff.org/Based in San Francisco, EFF is a donor-supported membership organization working to protect fundamental rights regardless of technology.
From the Internet to the iPod, technologies are transforming our society and empowering us as speakers, citizens, creators, and consumers. When our freedoms in the networked world come under attack, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is the first line of defense. EFF broke new ground when it was founded in 1990—well before the Internet was on most people's radar—and continues to confront cutting-edge issues defending free speech, privacy, innovation, and consumer rights today. From the beginning, EFF has championed the public interest in every critical battle affecting digital rights.
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