The determination that led me to create a new sports team taught me an important lesson: opportunity is manufactured.
BIZ STONEBoth my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.
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Creativity comes from constraint.
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We didn’t have anything before Twitter that allowed a group of people roaming around a city to communicate instantly, in real time, and in a coordinated way, in a group.
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Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.
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You curate information that you want to receive. It’s a lot different because I’m not asking you if it’s okay, I’m just saying I’m following your updates. That’s why I don’t think of Twitter as a social network.
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You have to have an emotional investment in what you’re doing. If you don’t love what you’re doing, failure is pretty much guaranteed.
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Creativity is an infinitely renewable resource – you are not going to run out of it – so don’t be afraid to use it.
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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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Doing startups is all about making mistakes.
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The two things I use the most are the MacBook Air and my iPhone. Those are my two most-used gadgets that are dented, scratched and smashed.
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I was writing and developing software for alumnae to be able to connect and communicate.
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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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People first. Technology second.
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When you think about Twitter, there are people all around the world reporting twenty-four seven, every second. They’re reporting what they’re seeing and what’s happening around them. So there’s a lot of potential for breaking news.
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Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.
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I’ve probably overused this analogy of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight, but, in reality, it’s so simple, real time communication of individuals that allow for this super organism type of organism to happen.
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