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Books: Check out two in particular: “The art of the start” by Guy Kawasaki and “The hard thing about hard things” by Ben Horowitz. Both are great reads for anyone interested in bringing something new into the world.
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Other start-ups: I’ve been really impressed with a number of start-ups, but it’s rarely because of the idea. It turns out, very few successful companies do exactly what they thought they would at the beginning. The usually learn something along the way that helps them better understand what the market and their customers really want. As a result, I am most impressed by a combination of guts and execution. The entrepreneurs you want to work with and back are the ones that care more about accomplishing their goals than they do about the specific process of getting there, and are comfortable overcoming obstacles that would make others give up and declare “this is impossible”.
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