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For a company to be valuable it must grow and endure, but many entrepreneurs focus only on short-term growth.
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47 |
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A good startup should have the potential for great scale built into its first design.
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51 |
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The perfect target market for a startup is a small group of particular people concentrated together and served by few or no competitors.
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54 |
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…a definite person determines the one best thing to do and then does it.
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62 |
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Darwinism may be fine in theory in other contexts, but in startups, intelligent design works best.
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79 |
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…every great entrepreneur is first and foremost a designer.
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79 |
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A startup is a large endeavor over which you can have definite mastery.
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81 |
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…once you think that you’re playing the lottery, you’ve already psychologically prepared yourself to lose.
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87 |
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…the dozen largest tech companies were all venture-backed.
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90 |
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If there are many secrets left in the world, there are probably many world-changing companies yet to be started.
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94 |
