Startup jackpot april 13 2013 - koester
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This document contains 12 short quotes or pieces of advice related to starting and running a technology company. The quotes discuss topics like choosing revenue over culture when starting out, keeping company culture strong, carefully selecting job candidates, the difficulties of managing a virtual team, avoiding outsourcing mistakes, using data to a company's advantage, convincing early adopters before scaling, working on ambitious goals, and having important conversations with cofounders.
Startup jackpot april 13 2013 - koester
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- 8. Once your company has a lot of revenue, you can be choosy. Until then, any revenue is revenue.
- 10. Most startups begin with great culture; but amazing startups find ways to keep great culture.
- 12. If you wouldnt spend 8 straight hours in the car with any hire, then dear god dont hire them.
- 14. Starting a company with a virtual team is like trying to learn to be a surgeon watching the Health Channel.
- 16. Most common founder sob story: So we outsourced it to _______ and now we are stuck with this pile of junk. #dontdoit
- 18. Data is a startups unfair advantage. Design your company around the data advantage or youve already lost.
- 20. If you cant convince 100 people to totally, f-ing love you, good luck convincing a million.
- 22. If you arent working on something that scares the heck out of you, then you arent working on what matters.
- 24. The best entrepreneurs have the curiosity of a child, the humility of a priest and the impatience of a dying man.
- 26. Have an incredibly honest and uncomfortable conversation upfront with your cofounders. Youll thank me later.