Jason Fried
Jason Fried is the co-founder and President of 37signals, the Chicago-based web-application company. He has co-authored all of 37signals' books, including the upcoming, "Rework," as well as the 'minimalist manifesto,' "Getting Real: The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Successful Web Application" He also helps to maintain the company's popular blog, Signal vs. Noise, and is regularly invited to speak around the world on entrepreneurship, design, management, and software.
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Jason Fried
The Only Mission Statement That Matters: Solve a Real Problem
In a world obsessed with innovation and complexity, the value of simple solutions to essential problems is disastrously obscured.
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Jason Fried
Big Think Interview With Jason Fried
A conversation with the co-founder and president of 37signals.
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Jason Fried
The Biggest Problem in the Traditional Workplace: Interruptions
It’s best if people stay away from each other while they are working, because when people are all together all the time, they tend to constantly interrupt each other.
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Jason Fried
The Modern Office Doesn't Really Foster Collaboration
If you really want to get creative and work on something, you need uninterrupted stretches of quiet time. Jason Fried says you need to keep the distractions out.
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Jason Fried
Common Mistakes That Start-ups Make
Competition doesn't put start-ups out of business. Rather the businesses tend to put themselves out of business by hiring the wrong people, being afraid of making money, and spending too much early on.
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Jason Fried
Weighing the Value of "Free"
When companies have a "free only" business model—thinking they'll make money later—they're usually betting that "there’s going to be this magic switch they can flip."
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Jason Fried
The Importance of Hiring Late
Always hire after you need someone, "after it hurts," not before. When companies ramp up fast in anticipation of work to be done, it can be really hard to hire good people.
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Jason Fried
What I Would Do Differently
I would only build the things that I need," says Fried. "I’m really a big proponent of building products that we’re going to use.
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Jason Fried
Reality Bites, But Who Cares?
One of the most intolerable hang-ups is wondering whether something will “work in the real world.” As Jason Fried explains, it’s a depressing place where everything is slow, difficult, and worrisome, so why live by...
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Jason Fried
Can Cloud Computing Change Everything?
The founder of 37signals defines cloud computing, its role in the future of computing, and the overblown anxiety around its security.