“Every entrepreneur faces trade-offs when founding and growing their company. As we discovered at YouTube, those early decisions have far-reaching impacts and lead to unforeseen pitfalls down the road. Noam Wasserman uses vivid anecdotes and deep research to expertly outline the key early choices that define a startup, making The Founder's Dilemmas an invaluable alternative to real-world trial and error.” WorldRealUseFacesChoicesDecisionCompanyGrowingKeysResearchTradeImpactEntrepreneurErrorsTrialsAlternativesReachingReal WorldFoundersFoundingVividFalling DownYoutubeDilemmaOutlinesDown The RoadInvaluableAnecdotesTrial And ErrorPitfallsUnforeseenTrade Offs Author:Chad Hurley
“My job is to not be easy on people. My job is to make them better. My job is to pull things together from different parts of the company and clear the ways and get the resources for the key projects. And to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better, coming up with more aggressive visions of how it could be.” PeopleWayDifferentTogetherJobsEasyCompanyVisionClearKeysProjectsResourcesAggressiveGreat PeopleDifferent Jobs Book:Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs Source: Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs
“What good men most biologists are, the tenors of the scientific world - temperamental, moody, lecherous, loud-laughing, and healthy. Your true biologist will sing you a song as loud and off-key as will a blacksmith, for he knows that morals are too often diagnostic of prostatitis and stomach ulcers. Sometimes he may proliferate a little too much in all directions, but he is as easy to kill as any other organism, and meanwhile he is very good company, and at least he does not confuse a low hormone productivity with moral ethics.” KnowsMenWorldMayLittlesDoeSometimesSongEasyCompanyMoralLaughingToo MuchKeysHealthyLowsEthicsVery GoodProductivityLoudGood ManStomachOrganismsHormonesAnd OffBiologistGood CompanyMoodyTenorsMoral EthicsUlcersBlacksmiths Author:John Steinbeck
“The key here are two little words: the word 'or' and the word 'and'. Nintendo is not an or company, with games devoted to just this group or that group. We're an and company, with games for this group and that group and for groups that don't even call themselves gamers yet.” LittlesTwoGamesCompanyGroupsKeysDevotedGamerNintendo Author:Reggie Fils-Aime
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“No one is doing something in your business - getting a sale, having a key customer, working on an R&D project - doing anything that's more important than something you say is going to change the company.” ImportantCompanyKeysProjectsCustomers Author:Jack Welch
“The key to making money in angel investing is saying no. You meet with 100 companies and say no to 99 of them.” CompanyKeysAngelInvestingMaking MoneySaying No Author:Kevin Rose
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“Companies watch what consumers are doing like a hawk. Just as one letter to a politician can signal an insipient problem, for companies, a trend where people are beginning to switch away from one of their key products to a rival offering on the basis of either claims or real improvements on performance, that's significant.” PeopleRealProblemCompanyWatchesProductsKeysPoliticianLettersPerformancesBasesClaimsImprovementSignificantConsumersTrendsOfferingSignalsRivalsHawks Author:John Elkington
“The insurance companies do not refer to the key policy rate when they send their statements. We can only control that rate. Long-term interest rates are determined largely by global financial markets.” LongTermInterestCompanyPolicyKeysRateFinancialDeterminedStatementsLong TermInterest RateInsurance CompaniesFinancial Markets Author:Mario Draghi
“Whatever the founder cares about, whatever the founders think are the key goals, that's going to be what the whole company focusses on.” ThinkingWholeCareGoalCompanyKeysFounders Author:Sam Altman
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“As far as Paris goes, we don't know for sure yet how these guys communicate among themselves and how they communicated back to the ISIS leadership in Iraq and Syria, but I'm fairly confident we're going to learn they used these encrypted communication applications that have commercial encryption and are extremely difficult for companies to break - and which the companies have made the decision not to produce a key for.” KnowsMadeUsedGuyDifficultDecisionCompanyBreakProduceCommunicationKeysIraqCommunicateParisApplicationSyriaIsisEncryption Author:Michael Morell
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