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Great Leo Laporte speech. Watch it.

Mint CEO Aaron Patzer on startups

Great grades and successful founders/technology entrepreneurs have at best a zero correlation.

“There’s a big difference between being an employee at a great technology company and having the guts to start one. You don’t get grades for having resiliency, curiosity, agility, resourcefulness, pattern recognition and tenacity.”
Steve Blank

The worst time to join a startup is right after it gets initial VC financing.

John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins on the difference between “missionary” and “mercenary” entrepreneurial founders

How to create a successful startup

Marc Andreesen:
Above all else, we are looking for the brilliant and motivated entrepreneur or entrepreneurial team with a clear vision of what they want to build and how they will create or attack a big market. We cannot substitute for entrepreneurial vision and drive, but we can help such entrepreneurs build great companies around their [...]

A reflexion about Guy Kawasaki and Seth Godin

Both are very likable persons and both of them are formidable speakers. I spent countless hours watching their conference videos posted on YouTube. However, there is something that I remark: They each tried to start up an Internet company (AllTop for Guy Kawasaki and Squidoo for Seth Godin), and, in my view, none of them [...]

Paul Graham on startups

- Startups in 13 Sentences
- The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups

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