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March 16, 2006 in Happy Links

• Entrepreneurial Proverbs by Marc Hedlund
  This has already gotten a fair bit of play but with good reason: These are some great nuggets of advice. My favorite? "Pay attention to the idea that won't leave you alone."
• The Cost of Bootstrapping Your App: The Figures Behind DropSend (part two)
  Another helpful installment from Ryan Carson.
• SXSW 2006 Interactive Panels Podcasts
  Now that the conference has concluded, many of the presentations and panels are  available via podcast. A few successful entrepreneurs in the mix make some of these well worth listening to. Fried, Coudal and Newmark in particular.
• Startup Reality Distortion Effect #1: Giving Your Software Away For Free
  This whole young blog by Dharmesh Shah is excellent actually, this one riffs against the common practice of entrepreneurs giving away their software for free and advocates charging even at the early stages (to gain benefits beyond even the revenue), and even charging your early adopters (give them special treatment instead). This reminds me of Guy Kawasaki's adage that sales fixes everything. Jason Fried, Guy and now Dharmesh have been raising this point lately, and I think it's an excellent one.
• Speaking of Guy Kawasaki, he's the latest inductee to the 9rules Network
  Hey Guy, I was a member before you were even blogging ;)
• Tips for Startup Companies
  A few helpful tips by successful entrepreneur Philip Greenspun.
• Ten Reasons Young People Are Afraid to Start Their Own Business
  If you're whining about very many of those things, I'm not sure this will help, but if find yourself on the fence with one or two and need a hand talking yourself into taking the plunge, these ideas provide a helpful nudge.
• 9 must reads before you launch a startup
  Kind of a "Happy Links" list of it's own, this rounds up great advice from some heavy hitters.
• What's Your EQ (entrepreneurial quotient)?
  Guy throws it down with this quiz. How did you do?