Tag Results: entrepreneur
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If it’s the right person giving their opinion, LISTEN carefully. The list of “right people” is pretty short: YOU and your realistic potential clients and partners.
If it’s the wrong person giving their opinion, F it. Smile, nod, or whatever gesture you think they deserve.
When you have a well-defined core, YOU will be 90% of the feedback that you need.
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Great advice for anyone starting any business
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An infographic depicting the percentage share of formal firms that are owned by women in Africa.
Data from the World Bank.
via afrographique:
This will only increase. And its velocity will surprise many.
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My business mentor from afar: the brilliant Jack Dorsey.
(Source: allthingsd.com)
My new entrepreneurial role model and idol - Jack Dorsey. Find an hour and watch this talk. The brilliance exuding from this guy is inspiring.
“There’s an endless debate about the good and bad of selling a company that’s still growing in the Valley right now. There’s the obvious macro-economic answer: Everyone selling too early is bad, because no new tech giants are created. There’s the obvious micro-answer: A few million dollars is life changing for most people, and those entrepreneurs deserve to make a life-changing amount of money.”
If Web 1.0’s Kryptonite Was the Bust, Web 2.0 Kryptonite Was the Grind
Interesting thought. Being a part of a startup media company, I have to admit that the micro-answer does resonate with me. But I also have to admit that I want BlackTree to become a new media giant and disrupt the current corporate media landscape. There is certainly a middle ground that rewards founders and still makes corporate history. The question is: Does that founder have the knowledge and patience to make the right deal so that can happen?
“if your board meetings suck, whose fault is it?”
The Monster In Your Head (via fred-wilson)
Things that make you go hmm.
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“Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won’t, so that you can spend the rest of your life like most people can’t.”
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“Many good entrepreneurs can go from zero to a couple of million in revenues and a couple of hundred people. He’s got over 100,000 people. Few can do that.”
“It doesn’t matter whether a company is big or small. Capital structure matters. It always has and always will.”
