“..easy solutions to important problems that LOOK really hard are the best.

“Paul Böhm’s idea of ripping off YCombinator has really paid off as a great marketing strategy to generate buzz quickly.

“HitForge is an entrepreneur cooperative composed of independent small teams, where people can apply with their ideas, join the team, and see their idea go from idea to product in a few weeks, largely with help from an offshore engineering team. If it works, then the product is turned into a company. If it doesn’t work, the product is killed, and the team moves onto something new. HitForge is out of a few thousand dollars. The team whose product got killed still gets to share in the hits that come out of the cooperative.

“..cooperation between persons or groups with very different Buxton Indices leads to mutual (moral) reproaches as long as the partners are unaware of the difference: the partner with the small Buxton Index is accused of short-sightedness and opportunism, the one with the large Buxton Index is accused of hobbyism and a lacking sense of responsibility.

“It was only the third instance of a team losing half their side for less than 35 in a World Cup semi-final. The first two instances were both in that Headingley game between England and Australia in 1975.

“Ram Charan never stops. He sleeps in a hotel every night. Before he was a consultant, Charan lived in dormitories. Before he was a professor and a student, he lived in YMCAs. Now he doesn’t live anywhere.

“You try to consider that the program is an essay, a work of literature. I’m hoping someday that the Pulitzer Prize committee will agree.

“Sales of non-new US homes fell 8.4% in March, the sharpest month-on-month drop for 18 years and a further illustration of weakness in the US housing market.

“DNA offers the possibility of certainty in a few kinds of crimes — like rape, or perhaps a murder when the criminal struggled with the victim and left behind skin or blood evidence that can be tested for genetic material. But the flaws that exonerations have revealed are common to any number of criminal prosecutions: mistaken eyewitnesses, forensic experts who draw the wrong conclusions, jailhouse informants, hair and blood analysis, misguided arson investigations, fingerprint analysis.

“..your early customers should all be oriented around relationships.