Platform Scale: How an Emerging Business Model Helps Startups Build Large Empires With Minimum Investment
by Sangeet Paul Choudary · 14 Sep 2015 · 302pp · 73,581 words
-and-egg problem, in the first place, is to start as the producer and open out the platform, over time, to other producers. Unlike the ‘fake-it-till-you-make-it’ strategy, the platform owner explicitly declares their its role as the producer. When the iPhone first launched without the app store, it had
Dataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One's Looking)
by Christian Rudder · 8 Sep 2014 · 366pp · 76,476 words
the only person calling himself a brand. Hence a mouthpiece for the “new economy” takes a page from Bass’s Victorian playbook. And why not? Fake it till you make it. The article kicked off the idea of self-branding as a direct path to success and is still read in marketing classes today
The End of My Addiction
by Olivier Ameisen · 23 Dec 2008 · 312pp · 89,728 words
at Marworth spoke about this issue and told us, “Look at yourself in the mirror. Look, and like yourself. Do as they say in AA, ‘Fake it till you make it.’ You hate what you see in the mirror, but fake that you like it. Smile at yourself and say, ‘I’m an attractive
The Orbital Perspective: Lessons in Seeing the Big Picture From a Journey of 71 Million Miles
by Astronaut Ron Garan and Muhammad Yunus · 2 Feb 2015
. The stakes are in fact very high, probably higher than we realize, and accurate information, transparency, and openness are key to addressing our global challenges. Fake It Till You Make It Because there is so little evidence, feedback, or accountability in the development arena, it becomes ridiculously easy to create an unchallenged reputation for
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conference circuit, an organization can be very successful without evidence of superiority or proof of having made a positive difference. Many initiatives begin with a “fake it till you make it” attitude. New organizations get a splashy website and some celebrity endorsements, throw big fund-raising bashes, and get on the speaking circuit. As
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you fake it and then actually succeed, the rewards are great. Everyone admires your gutsiness, persistence, and ambition. But there is a subtle difference between faking it till you make it and “making it by faking it,” which crosses over into duplicity 116â•… L O O K I N G F O R WARD
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Spaceship Earth. Last but not least, I want to thank Carmel, Ronnie, Joseph, and Jake. Index Abbey, George, 13–14, 16 “Act as if.” See “Fake it till you make it” attitude Africa, 131 Airbnb, 153–154 Anderson, Michael, 20 Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, 13–14, 31, 42 Atlantis. See Space Shuttle Atlantis Bangladesh
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), 2, 7, 136, photo EWB-JSC (Johnson Space Center chapter of Engineers Without Borders), 109–110, 136 Expedition 27/28, photo Expo ’67, 162, 163 “Fake it till you make it” attitude, 115–116 FARS (Federal Acquisition Regulations), 33–34 Federal Acquisition Regulations (FARS), 33–34 Foale, Mike, 40, 44 on being in space
SUPERHUBS: How the Financial Elite and Their Networks Rule Our World
by Sandra Navidi · 24 Jan 2017 · 831pp · 98,409 words
way to become a superhub. And then he pulled out all the stops by acting as if money were no object. Abiding by the motto “fake it till you make it,” he donated to charities so generously that it was sure to attract attention, and with those donations he became an increasingly bigger creditor
Shadow Work: The Unpaid, Unseen Jobs That Fill Your Day
by Craig Lambert · 30 Apr 2015 · 229pp · 72,431 words
eateries—typically independent ones facing stiff competition—would try to game the system. In 2013, Luca and his colleague Georgios Zervas of Boston University published “Fake It Till You Make It: Reputation, Competition, and Yelp Review Fraud.” They analyzed 316,425 Yelp reviews of Boston restaurants and found that 16 percent were fraudulent, as
Pandemic, Inc.: Chasing the Capitalists and Thieves Who Got Rich While We Got Sick
by J. David McSwane · 11 Apr 2022 · 368pp · 102,379 words
less? We rise to our occasions. This is America. The land of opportunity. A magical place with magical thinkers. Pull up your bootstraps. Take chances. Fake it till you make it. That’s why I was there, after all, to see how the hell he managed to get his hands on something almost no
Into the Fire: My Life as a London Firefighter
by Edric Kennedy-Macfoy · 14 Jul 2018 · 201pp · 70,698 words
not affected by what happened at Grenfell, and I told myself that the longer I did that, the more it would start to be true – fake it till you make it is how I’d describe what I was trying to do. But it didn’t work. I was exhausted and mentally drained. That
Into the Fire: My Life as a London Firefighter
by Edric Kennedy-Macfoy · 14 Aug 2018
not affected by what happened at Grenfell, and I told myself that the longer I did that, the more it would start to be true – fake it till you make it is how I’d describe what I was trying to do. But it didn’t work. I was exhausted and mentally drained. That
Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology From Capitalism
by Wendy Liu · 22 Mar 2020 · 223pp · 71,414 words
in the United Kingdom by TJ International Ltd CONTENTS Zero: Prologue One: No Girls on the Internet Two: Googleyness Three: More than the Money Four: Fake It Till You Make It Five: Accelerate Six: Crash Seven: Pivot Eight: Giving Up Nine: Profile Before You Optimise Ten: Stupid Environment Eleven: A New Industrial Model 1
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that we didn’t need Y Combinator’s mark of validation after all. As long as we believed, we could figure out the rest. FOUR: FAKE IT TILL YOU MAKE IT As an entrepreneur, I try to push the limits. Pedal to the metal. — Travis Kalanick in December 2014, while he was the CEO
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wasted time building a useless product, and if they did, we would just work really hard to get it done in time. Still, Nick’s fake-it-till-you-make-it, ask-for-forgiveness-not-permission attitude was starting to get on my nerves, especially when I was the one who had to do
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had rationalised their use of other companies’ machines when theirs didn’t work: that wasn’t dishonesty, that was just good strategy! Everybody did it. Fake it till you make it, and all that. Ask for forgiveness, not permission. I had been so sure that Theranos was the underdog, the victim of an unjustified
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://www.vogue.com/article/hail-to-the-chief-yahoos-marissa-mayer. Three: More than the Money 1 See http://www.paulgraham.com/gap.html. Four: Fake It Till You Make It 1 A quote for a Guardian profile in December 2014. See https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2014/dec/21/travis-kalanick-uber-cab
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