Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
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To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.
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An entrepreneur without funding is a musician without an instrument.
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«Gavin did not enjoy his hard work. The optimistic startup guys sending in these crazy proposals were guys who enjoyed their work. Gavin had the solid, old-fashioned idea that work should be painful, so that people would pay you for doing it. If the work was fulfilling, then work was a form of entertainment. The workers should be paying people for being entertained.»
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For your first key hires, three, five, maybe as much as ten, you will probably not be able to use any kind of formula. Getting someone to join your dream before it is much of anything is an art not a science.
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The more that those first employees feel like founders in terms of their ownership, emotional attachment, responsibility and overall understanding of the startup process (including financing, running day-to-day activities, etc.) the better the startup will be.
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Being an early hire at a startup gives an individual the ability to make tremendous impact on an organization as it grows – and both the founders and those hires should know it.
The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow.
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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
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If I had asked my customers what they wanted they would have said a faster horse.
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The more people we have on our team, the less room there is in the elevator and the more complicated everything gets.
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If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late.
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Workaholics aren't heroes. They don't save the day, they use it up. The real hero is home because she figured out a faster way.
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