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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
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 [...]
Twitter NOT
Matt Mullenweg:
Automattic, the holding company behind WordPress.com, finally got an office late last year at Pier 38, a beautiful open-floorplan space right on the Embarcadero. It’s about a five-minute walk from my apartment, but my preference is to work from home. We’re very much a virtual company where everyone primarily works from home (or their [...]
Paul Graham on startups
- Startups in 13 Sentences
- The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups
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