The recent debates around SOPA/PIPA legislation emphasized the importance of free expression. As citizens of the Internet we have a collective responsibility to determine the future of the technology underpinning so much of our modern lives. The authors included here stepped up to contribute their support to the pursuit of digital rights. All profits from this ebook will be donated to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (https://www.eff.org/). The payment processing fees are 30 cents and 2.9% of every sale; the rest goes to the EFF. Our goal is to earn exactly $0 on this.

This volume contains blog posts - some old, some new - from many names familiar to you and hopefully some new voices. We will continue to provide free updates to your purchase with new content as we are able to collect it from authors of interest. If you want to suggest an author please send their contact information to hunterwalk+eff@gmail.com.

1. Introduction
2. Adam Nash
   1. Be a Great Product Leader
3. Adam Rifkin
   1. Be Lucky
4. Alexia Tsotsis
   1. Keeping Up With The Normals
5. Andrew Dubber
   1. How long should music copyright be?
   2. Should I be worried about piracy?
6. Andy Weissman
   1. Information Does Not Want To Be Free
7. Auren Hoffman
   1. Fail to Succeed
8. Barry Ritholtz
   1. Why Foreclosure Fraud Is So Dangerous to Property Rights
9. Brad Feld
   1. This Is The Smell Of Inevitability
10. Bryce Roberts
    1. Ten Years of Innovation Highlighted in One Night
11. Caterina Fake
    1. FOMO and Social Media
12. Chris Dixon
    1. Some lessons learned
13. Chris Sacca
    1. Shhhh . . . Listen . . .
14. Cory Doctorow
    1. Secret documents reveal the flimsy case for Ofcom to give into BBC's public TV DRM demands
15. Cory Ondrejka
    1. Big Brother versus Little Brother
16. danah boyd
    1. Social Steganography: Learning to Hide in Plain Sight
17. Danny Sullivan
    1. If Google Was New York City & Online Piracy Was Knock-Off Handbags\ldots {
18. Dave McClure
    1. Subscriptions are the New BLACK. (+ why Facebook, Google, & Apple will own your wallet by 2015)
19. David Hornik
    1. Isn't "Hypomanic Entrepreneur" Redundant
    2. VCitis
20. David Pakman
    1. Wither the Giants? The Arrogance of Aging Incumbents
21. David Shen
    1. Steve Jobs on Design: Explicit vs. Implicit Authority, Authority is Earned
22. Derek Slater
    1. Piracy Invades Privacy, Encourages Cyberbullying, and Creates a Thriving Artistic Culture; Or, Compassion for The Winnebago Man and Robert Levine
    2. Powellâ^^80^^99s Four Freedoms and Obamaâ^^80^^99s Line of Commercial/Noncommercial Demarcation
23. Elad Gil
    1. You Don't Need A Good Idea To Start A Great Company
24. Eric Ries
    1. The Visionary's Lament
25. Erick Schonfeld
    1. The Cambrian Explosion In Startups
26. Ethan Kaplan
    1. The Problem with "Like" and the Loss of Love
27. FAKEGRIMLOCK
    1. STARTUP IS VISION
    2. MINIMUM VIABLE PERSONALITY
28. Fred Wilson
    1. Investing In The Cultural Revolution
29. Hiten Shah
    1. You're Mentoring the Wrong Way
30. Howard Lindzon
    1. Too 'SMALL' To Fail!!!
31. Hunter Walk
    1. Sorry Mike, Facebook could reboot and we'd mess it up again
32. ian c rogers
    1. How About This Instead Of Sopa? My Proposal For Legislation To Proactively Combat Piracy While Encouraging An Open And Innovative Internet
33. Jason Cohen
    1. Why I feel like a fraud
    2. When free markets make it worse: new TLDs
34. Jenna Bilotta
    1. How designers and engineers can play nice (and still run with scissors)
35. Joel Spolsky
    1. Two things about SOPA/PIPA & then I'll shut up :)
36. John Lilly
    1. Kit
37. Josh Kopelman
    1. Founders and Heat Seeking Missiles
38. Joshua Brown
    1. The Man Behind the Curtain
39. Ken Norton
    1. How to hire a product manager
40. Marc Andreessen
    1. How to hire the best people you've ever worked with
41. Margaret Stewart
    1. Hard-earned career advice
42. Mark Suster
    1. What Makes an Entrepreneur? Four Letters: JFDI
    2. Whose Life are You Going to Change?
43. Mathew Ingram
    1. MegaUpload case proves we don't need SOPA or PIPA
44. MG Siegler
    1. Pushing The Envelope, Not The Share Button
45. Michael Geist
    1. The Day the Internet Fought Back
46. Mike Loukides
    1. On pirates and piracy: The media industry's wholesale takeover of creativity is the real piracy
47. Mike Masnick
    1. The Future Of Music Business Models (And Those Who Are Already There)
48. Nat Torkington
    1. "The President's challenge: What more does government want --- or deserve --- from the tech world?"
49. Nilofer Merchant
    1. Silence Hurts
50. Peter Armstrong
    1. Lean Publishing
51. Rachel Sklar
    1. Fair Use: Okay, Let's Talk About It
52. Reginald Braithwaite
    1. I have a bad feeling about this
53. rohit sharma
    1. On Startup Values
54. Ryan Spoon
    1. 11 Ways to Usher the NFL, NBA, MLB into the New Web
55. Sarah Lacy
    1. The Chilling Story of Genius in a Land of Chronic Unemployment
56. Semil Shah
    1. The Illusion of Social Networks
57. Tim Ferriss
    1. Scientific Speed Reading: How to Read 300% Faster in 20 Minutes
58. Tim O'Reilly
    1. SOPA and PIPA are bad industrial policy
    2. Before Solving a Problem, Make Sure You've Got the Right Problem
    3. Further thoughts on SOPA, and why Congress shouldn't listen to lobbyists
59. Trevor Timm
    1. How PIPA and SOPA Violate White House Principles Supporting Free Speech and Innovation
60. Whitney Johnson
    1. Disrupt Yourself