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Paul Buchheit Wednesday, July 30, 2014 The Technology Note: This is the talk I gave at Startup School Europe, which was held last Saturday in London. You've heard a lot of great startup advice today. This is going to be a little different. I often advise startups that it's better to seek deep appeal, to create something that a few people love, even if most people don't get it right away. In that spirit, I've decided to share the technology and dreams that matter to me, with the hope that it will be very appealing to the right person. This is, after all, a business defined by outliers. Someone in this room is going to create something very important. That's the person I'm hoping to reach. We talk a lot about technology, and its ability to transform and improve the world. But technology is more than just transistors and algorithms. Those are just patterns on silicon. The technology that really drives the world are the patterns in your head. Those are the patterns that give rise to th

Paul Buchheit Wednesday, July 30, 2014 The Technology Note: This is the talk I gave at Startup School Europe, which was held last Saturday in London. You've heard a lot of great startup advice today. This is going to be a little different. I often advise startups that it's better to seek deep appeal, to create something that a few people love, even if most people don't get it right away. In that spirit, I've decided to share the technology and dreams that matter to me, with the hope that it will be very appealing to the right person. This is, after all, a business defined by outliers. Someone

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