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" I tell people that the history of Mozilla and Firefox is so one of a kind that it should not be used - ever - as an example of what's possible. "
Mitch Kapor
History
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" Failing to continue to support the public higher-ed system in California will have devastating long-term consequences. "
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" Fundly is at the dynamic intersection of high-growth technology startups, social entrepreneurship, and the exploding world of social media. Kapor Capital is proud to back this passionate team, their product, and Fundly's impressive customer base. "
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" If we're not creating an educated and skilled workforce, there is just no conceivable way that were going to be economically competitive. "
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" Open source can propagate to fill all the nooks and crannies that people want it to fill. "
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" The critical thing in developing software is not the program, it's the design. It is translating understanding of user needs into something that can be realized as a computer program. "
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" Even though I had the talent, programming just didn't feel right. I never considered it very seriously. Some people get gratification from bending a machine to their will. I didn't. "
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" Startups, in some sense, have gotten so easy to start that we are confusing two things. And what we are confusing, often, is, 'How far can you get in your first day of travel?' with, 'How long it is going to take to get up to the top of the mountain?' "
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" I was trying to figure out what to do next, I'd been accumulating ideas for productivity tools - software people could use every day, particularly to help organize their lives. "
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" We have to examine very carefully any privacy-reducing technology. "
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" Old ways of thinking die hard, particularly when they were weaned by legally enforced monopolies. "
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" I actually built a tiny computer as a junior high school project. "
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High
Tiny
School
" Technology advances at exponential rates, and human institutions and societies do not. They adapt at much slower rates. Those gaps get wider and wider. "
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" Bulletin boards are sort of the garage bands of cyberspace. "
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Boards
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" I woke up nights, worrying that Lotus was out of control - that no one would know what to do. "
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Woke
" One of the perks of being the founder is that you get to build the company in your image. "
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Company
Get
" Wikipedia has a way of compiling compendiums of information on subjects. "
Mitch Kapor
Way
Information
Subjects
" If you go back to the '50s and '60s... there was zero tech in S.F. It was all in the Valley... and it crept northward in early 2000s. "
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Zero
You
Valley
" Managerial and professional people hadn't really used computers, hadn't sat down at keyboards, until personal computers. Personal computers have a totally different feel. "
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Feel
People
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" My history is to find the next big thing early. "
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Big
Find
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" Oakland's time is coming. In fact, Oakland's time is already here. Tech is coming to Oakland, and it's terribly exciting. "
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Fact
Coming
Exciting
" In an economy where more and more value is in information - is in the bits, not the atoms, where bits can be copied essentially for free - any time you have that situation, economic schemes that rely on existing models of intellectual property laws for protection are going to do less and less well. "
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Information
You
Value
" I believe in having an impact in doing things. "
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Doing
I Believe
Impact
" Today, in the Internet gold rush, so many people go into dot-com jobs right from school or even before finishing. Their motivation is understandable, but sometimes they just lack experience. "
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Experience
Gold
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" The more you eliminate the inefficient use of information, the better it is for productivity. "
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" Often, the disconnect between the marketing hype around a new product and what the product actually does is astounding. "
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Around
Marketing
New
" Beware angel investors: they can be disruptive. "
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Angel
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Disruptive
" No, my family is Russian, Georgian, via Ellis Island. "
Mitch Kapor
Family
Island
Russian
" The kind of products you envision as an entrepreneur is a function of your life experience. "
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" I had no fear of speaking to large audiences. "
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Fear
No Fear
Had