The determination that led me to create a new sports team taught me an important lesson: opportunity is manufactured.
BIZ STONEI was writing and developing software for alumnae to be able to connect and communicate.
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You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.
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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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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’m curious about writing in the age of online publishing. Because nobody cares about good writing online.
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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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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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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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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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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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We can figure it out, it’s not like we all have a disease.
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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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Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured.
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Have confidence in your ideas before they even exist.
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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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