Ryan Carson, the CEO and sole founder of Treehouse wrote a post over the weekend titled “You can do it alone.”

The current popular belief among the startup community is that it’s necessary to have a co-founder in order to succeed. In my experience, this has not been true.

There is a members-only Q&A site — for lack of a better classification — called Quora, which is a virtual treasure trove of experiential information and stories.

In certain circles the term “lifestyle business” is a derisive term. There’s a glory in dedicating yourself fully to your work, to the late nights, to the sleeping under the desk mentality of of the early stage tech startup culture. As Michael Arrington put it: startups are hard, stop whining.

Is there a special gene for denting the universe? Or is it something that anyone can do with a sufficient amount of effort?

From a recent piece on Scooter Braun, Bieber's manager, in the New Yorker:
"Justin Bieber was born with the Superman powers," Braun said.