The document provides advice and encouragement for getting excited about ideas, capturing thoughts, building products that solve problems, making things work well and quickly, focusing on users, working in a team, not worrying about money, shipping real products, and being creative. It emphasizes capturing ideas, making usable products over apps, building a great team, and shipping work rather than worrying about money or perfection.

3. GET
EXCITED

4. AND

5. MAKE
THINGS

6. MATTHEW
BISCHOFF

7. HE LLO
my name is
Matt

8. GET
EXCITED

9. What excites you?

10. CAPTURE
THOUGHTS

11. STEAL
IDEAS

12. Ideas are worthless.

13. Products solve problems.

14. MAKE
THINGS

15. 90%
of everything
is crap.

16. 1. Make it work.
2. Make it right.
3. Make it fast.

17. Details matter.

18. Users are people.

20. LESS IS MORE

21. LESS IS BETTER

22. “If you make everything bold,
nothing is bold.”

23. Be useful.

24. “We don’t need any
more fart apps.”

25. Build a great team.
Even if it’s just you.

26. Don’t take $.

27. Don’t make $.

28. “But Matt, I’m busy.”

29. You’re not busy.

30. You’re gonna suck.

31. “You don’t work
for a dollar, you
work to create
and have fun.”

32. Real
artists
ship.

34. creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/

35. • http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackbeltjones/3365682994/in/photostream/
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/frijole/3802371533/sizes/l/in/photostream/
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/hummyhummy/2659815920/
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/dawnzy/3298781654/sizes/o/in/photostream/
• http://www.webdesignhot.com/free-vector-graphics/steve-jobs-vector-illustration/