Robbie Allen, a fellow classmate of mine, had posted links to 2 wonderful essays written by Paul Graham's on entrepreneurship a few weeks. Graham has once again intrigued us with a new thought-provoking essay about Open Source. The essay covers not about Open Source products like Firefox or Linux but highlights why the underlying processes and the people in Open Source are often more successful and less costly than those in some professional environments. This essay isn't about IT or computer programming, it actually has a lot of relevance in building successful creative, innovative enterprises by applying some of the observations and best practices in the Open Source environment. I find the following paragraph in the essay most very relevant to my career path that I currently taking:

Hackers tend to think business is for MBAs. But business administration is not what you're doing in a startup. What you're doing is business creation. And the first phase of that is mostly product creation-- that is, hacking. That's the hard part. It's a lot harder to create something people love than to take something people love and figure out how to make money from it.

8/4/2005 11:13:13 AM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)

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