I knew Mac pretty well. I’d used them when I was younger.
BIZ STONEDoing startups is all about making mistakes.
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People are watching TV, they’re watching some clips on their iPhone. I mean, some folks are sitting there on the iPhone, watching the Colbert Report, and meanwhile there’s a huge plasma TV right in front of them that they could be watching it on.
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I never even graduated college. I never finished learning, as it were, and I have a psychological need to be in a learning environment at all times.
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We actually created Twitter and Odeo at the same time. When we realized we didn’t really want to be running Odeo anymore we looked around for anyone who wanted to buy Odeo, but not acquire us as a technology. But people aren’t as interested in that.
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Embrace your constraints.
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Understand that you dont have all the answers, you just have to start somewhere and keep an open mind.
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The future of marketing is philanthropy.
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Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.
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Success isn´t guaranteed, but failure is certain if you aren´t truly emotionally invested in your work.
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You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.
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The determination that led me to create a new sports team taught me an important lesson: opportunity is manufactured.
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I started out as an artist, and I continue to think of myself as an artist first, and a technologist and entrepreneur after that.
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What if the New York Times gave out free, cheap Kindles to everyone and said this is how we’re doing it now. You know? Maybe that’s a way to go.
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I was kind of showing the art director a thing or two about how to use a Mac. And one day everyone went out to lunch and I jumped on the computer and designed a book jacket and slipped it in the pile to go to the review board in New York.
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Even though running is physically straining, it’s mentally refreshing. Especially when you feel like you’ve accomplished something.
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I’ve seen people twitter in haiku only.
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