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 | Max Chafkin

19 Blogs You Should Bookmark Right Now -- Paul Graham

There are millions of blogs out there. And most of them aren't worth your time. So we scoured the Web and came up with a list of the smartest bloggers, who just might help you run a better business

 
Paul Graham

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Paul Graham
Co-founder
Y Combinator
paulgraham.com

"I tried blogging once," says Graham, "but a blog post is too short and quick for me." Instead, he spends weeks crafting long essays and posts them on his website. His writing -- informed by experience helping to start more than 140 companies through his seed fund, Y Combinator -- deals mostly with the ins and outs of getting started.

From "Startups in 13 Sentences"

"You make what you measure...Merely measuring something has an uncanny tendency to improve it. If you want to make your user numbers go up, put a big piece of paper on your wall and every day plot the number of users. You'll be delighted when it goes up and disappointed when it goes down. Pretty soon you'll start noticing what makes the number go up, and you'll start to do more of that. Corollary: be careful what you measure."

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    • Max Chafkin

    Senior writer Max Chafkin has profiled companies such as Yelp, Zappos, Twitter, Threadless, and Tesla for the magazine. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. @chafkin