Your network is the people who want to help you, and you want to help them, and that’s really powerful.
Not only CAN anyone be an entrepreneur, but they MUST be.
One of the challenges in networking is everybody thinks it’s making cold calls to strangers. Actually, it’s the people who already have strong trust relationships with you, who know you’re dedicated, smart, a team player, who can help you.
I actually think every individual is now an entrepreneur, whether they recognize it or not.
Social networks do best when they tap into one of the seven deadly sins. Facebook is ego. Zynga is sloth. LinkedIn is greed.
All humans are entrepreneurs not because they should start companies but because the will to create is encoded in human DNA.
It’s better to be the best connected than the most connected.
This is classic when you begin thinking about what is a great founder is, you navigate what is apparent paradoxes.
Opportunities do not float like clouds in the sky. They’re attached to people. If you’re looking for an opportunity, you’re really looking for a person.
It’s actually pretty easy to be contrarian. It’s hard to be contrarian and right.
It’s nice to be happy. But the meaning of life is meaning – what’s the impact you’re having on the world. Suffering to accomplish that is a perfectly fine thing.
All human beings are entrepreneurs.
Data only exists within the framework of a vision you’re building to, a hypothesis of where you’re moving to.
We believe that when the right talent meets the right opportunity in a company with the right philosophy, amazing transformation can happen.
You should have an investment thesis that essentially says why you think this is potentially a good idea.
You gotta be both flexible and persistent.
Pay attention to your culture and your hires from the very beginning.
Part of the entrepreneurial thing is there are lots of ways to die.
So usually you have to have product distribution as more fundamental than what the actual product is.
The underpinnings of the alliance: the company helps the employee transform his career; the employee helps the company transform.