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Not a super drug for the economy

24 Jan

I don't think anyone should expect Silicon Valley to create tens of thousands of manufacturing jobs. It could create lots of service-oriented jobs. The Valley can't help a displaced auto worker or an uneducated 23-year-old.
Michael Mortiz, Sequoia Capital
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Good ideas and brilliant people

23 Jan

Silicon Valley houses many companies with frustrated engineers. Good ideas and brilliant people will find us very willing to step out into the cold with them.
Michael Mortiz, Sequoia Capital
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Mark Cuban

3 Jan

In sports, the only thing a player can truly control is effort. The same applies
to business. The only thing any entrepreneur, salesperson or anyone in any
position can control is their effort.

I had to kick myself in the ass and recommit to getting up early, staying up late and
consuming everything I possibly could to get an edge. I had to commit to making
the effort to be as productive as I possibly could. It meant making sure that
every hour of the day that I could contact a customer was selling time, and
when customers were sleeping, I was doing things that prepared me to make
more sales and to make my company better.

And finally, I had to make sure I wasn’t lying to myself about how hard I was
working. It would have been easy to judge effort by how many hours a day passed
while I was at work. That’s the worst way to measure effort. Effort is measured by
setting goals and getting results. What did I need to do to close this account? What
did I need to do to win this segment of business? What did I need to do to
understand this technology or that business better than anyone? What did I need to
do to find an edge? Where does that edge come from, and how was I going to get
there?

The one requirement for success in our business lives is effort. Either you make the
commitment to get results or you don’t.

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Allow your idea to die.

25 Dec

Allow your idea to die and be reborn repeatedly; it will get better each time.
Dave Ramsey, p 92 of EntreLeadership

 

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Christmas in a cat loving home.

24 Dec

Christmas in a cat loving home.