Data doesn't make sexy. The 1957 Jaguar XK SS wasn't built in a wind tunnel.
“When you want to create a hit, you’ve got to be willing to back away from the data.”
“Great content is art. Art is emotion. Emotion defies data.”
–Flipboard CEO Mike McCue, at Web 2.0 Summit.
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“Raise more money than you thnk you need. Mistakes in hardware are very expensive.”
— From an interview with one of the rare Bubble 2.0 entrepreneurs who’s actually making a hardware product. He had three software companies before this one.
“Once the check clears, no one stays.”
— A prominent serial entrepreneur on what happens to founders when their company is acquired successfully and they’re absorbed into a large organization. He adds: “Especially if they’re not building what they want to build anymore.”
“Companies rarely die from moving too fast, and they frequently die from moving too slowly.”
— Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix, in An Explanation and Some Reflections.
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