Tim O'Reilly
Tim O'Reilly
Tim O'Reillyis the founder of O'Reilly Media. He popularized the terms open source and Web 2.0...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth6 June 1954
CountryIreland
black-and-white strange rich
Share what you do profusely, because it will be remixed by others into something new, rich and strange.
mistake thinking marketing
The biggest mistake we see companies make when they first hit Twitter is to think about it as a channel to push out information.
people marketing matter
No matter your sector, chances are that people are already twittering about your products, your brand, your company or at least your industry.
technology trying fundamentals
Anyone who puts a small gloss on a fundamental technology, calls it proprietary, and then tries to keep others from building on it, is a thief.
artist creative obscurity
Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy.
data
Who has the data has the power.
technology people computer
Early on, when software was developed by computer scientists, just people working with computers, people passed around software because that was how you got computers to do things.
light world scales
Just do something that lights you up, and lights up your customers, and lights up the world and scale to that.
successful government answers
The Lean Startup isn't just about how to create a more successful entrepreneurial business, it's about what we can learn from those businesses to improve virtually everything we do. I imagine Lean Startup principles applied to government programs, to healthcare, and to solving the world's great problems. It's ultimately an answer to the question: How can we learn more quickly what works, and discard what doesn't?
obscurity problem bigger
Obscurity is a bigger problem for authors than piracy.
keys effort innovation
Empowerment of individuals is a key part of what makes open source work, since in the end, innovations tend to come from small groups, not from large, structured efforts.
running business entrepreneur
Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations.
artist obscurity problem
The problem for most artists isn't piracy, it's obscurity.
thinking people microsoft
I think that Microsoft will increasingly feel margin pressure from Linux as well as people saying: well actually the applications that really matter to me are not on my PC. And so they're going to be able to extract less of a monopoly rent, so to speak.