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Joel Gascoigne
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Entrepreneurship and Loved Ones
I’ve learned that the ones closest in my life will doubt my aspirations and dreams. It’s not that they don’t think that I can live out my dreams or accomplish my desires, it’s that they are afraid of me failing and getting hurt.
via techneur.com
Just came across this quote in an article by @jprichardson and I’ve experienced the same thing. It’s important to understand this and keep going despite the fact.
Gary Veynerchuk on Entrepreneurship over the generations
“Do you know who I feel bad for? I feel bad for everyone one of us in here, our version: who was us two generations ago, that didn’t have the freedom to build the kind of things we want. It’s all about the hustle. The fact that we can work our nine-to-five’s, come home, hang out a little bit with our families and then work from eleven pm to three in the morning building the shit we love, is such a special thing and I feel awful for every entrepreneur or engineer that came before us because what we’re living through right now is ridiculously awesome and we should be ridiculously thankful for it.”
Gary Vaynerchuk said this in his talk from RailsConf 2010:
Gary is one of the most inspirational (and crazy) people I’ve ever known about. If you’ve not come across him before, watch him.
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Help each other to help ourselves
via slideshare.net
I think this slide deck hits the nail on the head with one of the main problems with entrepreneurship here in the UK.
We need to learn to help each other to help ourselves, and right now too many of us do our own thing in our own place and rarely get together to collaborate and accelerate our progress.
Why stay at home stressing over scaling problems when there’s a guy in the same city whose solved those problems before? Why struggle to grasp the principles of agile software development when there’s a guy who teaches agile for a living just across the city? Why settle for mediocre user experience on your web app when there’s a guy who lives for user experience just a few roads away?
We need to get out more and be more open to help each other. Once we start doing that, things will start to get better for everyone, ourselves included.
I am trying to encourage this with events like the StartupMill, but we have a long way to go! What are your thoughts?
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Characteristics of Entrepreneurial Executives by Stage of the Company
via steveblank.com
This table from a post by Steve Blank is very interesting indeed, and shows why some people can be great at creating startups but not necessarily at managing a large company.
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