On Getting Traction, by Gabriel Weinberg

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I think these interviews are really great resource, but prefer to read than actually listen.. so I'd like to try to help organize and transcribe these. If people are interested in contributing https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AglVabA_hHYAdFFzZXl... Just mark, and hopefully Gabe can add them.

I was thinking the same, and then was surprised to find that there isn't yet a good free transcription service, likely because there isn't yet a good open-source solution: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_recognition_in_Linux

Dragon proprietary software's been around for a while, so this must indeed be a difficult problem. :)

The commercial ones use real people I think, not really an option for a free service.

Thank you--will do!

This is already looking to be a worthy successor to the book Founders at Work, with a greater focus on practical and usable advice for entrepreneurs (instead of anecdotes and war stories). The B2B advice from Sean Murphy, for example, is excellent. Thanks Gabriel!

Thank you, Gabriel. Please tell us someday how do you juggle between running DuckDuckGo (including coding, marketing, supporting etc), maintain a blog, and publish a book, all at the same time and done with excellency.

I'm way behind on the book part :)

Wow! I just devoured 3 of these - they are excellent! In the spirit of Jessica Livingston's _Founders at Work_ and Andrew Warner's Mixergy.

Thank you, Gabriel, for this great work. Who knows what impact these may have on our community? You are a mensch.

Yeah, these are great!

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