Google Maps founder Lars Rasmussen talks start-ups and his Google Wave failure

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I found this quote very interesting: "scarcity brings clarity" (attributed to Sergey Brin), in the sense that when teams are limited by resources, they tend to concentrate on the most important things and thus become clear in their goals.

It's sad that Wave is considered a failure. My friends and I use it everyday and find it to be a huge improvement to email in many instances.

I had used wave pretty heavily too. For one thing it was a way to chat through the company firewall when i was still doing a 9-5 ;) (they hadn't block it) though more importantly it was a great way to jot down ideas back and forth during the day , comment on the add some images then tabulate them or add them into bug tracking/feature control system at the end of the week.

Sometimes the ideas would evolve on wave after a week and we would put the final result in our bug tracking/feature control system with a reference to the wave so we can remember our rational behind why we added or changed a feature.

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