Embrace your constraints.
BIZ STONELesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured.
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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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Doing startups is all about making mistakes.
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We can figure it out, it’s not like we all have a disease.
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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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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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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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Understand that you dont have all the answers, you just have to start somewhere and keep an open mind.
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The normal press cycle is to put a company on a pedestal and then knock it down. It’s much more interesting that way.
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Willingness to take risks is the path to success.
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Inventing your dream is the first and biggest step toward making it come true.
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You don’t have to spend the entire day hunched over your computer consuming this information.
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We can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about it.
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This idea that the open exchange of information can have a positive global impact is being proven over and over again around the world nearly on a daily basis – and for Secretary Clinton to recognize that, I think, is a huge step.
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I think that’s a really important role that people sometimes forget about, especially with all these newspaper shutting down and having trouble, where are all these stories going to go?
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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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