Understand that you dont have all the answers, you just have to start somewhere and keep an open mind.
BIZ STONEIf people are passionate about your product, whether it’s because they’re hating or loving it, those are both good scenarios.
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A personal belief is that if you’re not personally invested in what you’re working on, you’ll fail.
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I mean, if you were going to say that now, it doesn’t sound like a great idea, because there are other ways you can distribute the news.
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If you make the opportunity. you’ll be the first in the position to take advantage of it.
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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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You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.
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You don’t have to spend the entire day hunched over your computer consuming this information.
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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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The thing that excites me, and the thing that excited me about Twitter, is the idea of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight.
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I knew Mac pretty well. I’d used them when I was younger.
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Willingness to take risks is the path to success.
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Doing startups is all about making mistakes.
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We hired a CSR person at Twitter, years before we hired our first sales person, to make sure we had a culture and impact of doing good.
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I mean just look at haiku, the idea of it. We want to focus on that singularity, on that simplicity, but we still want to add features and add value, but we want to do it in a way that fits in with that mentality of simplicity. You have to spend a lot of time thinking about it.
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Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured.
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We realized we weren’t really using Odeo, we weren’t investing our own time creating podcasts.
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