Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

Heart and class are permanent. Overall you become a better person when you have been humbled by failure. It’s our reaction to our failures that distinguishes winners from losers. A great entrepreneur is like a great racehorse. There’s no quit in them. Defeats are temporary. Don’t rationalize away the hurt.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2018

The millions of immigrant workers who silently wash dishes in restaurants, are prep cooks, pick the agriculture that feeds us, build our houses, clean our houses, watch our kids and do our gardening are vilified as criminals by those currently in power to exploit the fears of working-class white, non-Hispanic, Americans. Invisibility.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2015

Highlight your world-class team as the secret sauce. After highlighting your best competitive features and your intellectual property barriers to entry, I encourage you to put on your humble face, and proclaim your determination to never stop improving your products and processes to out-distance competitors.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 9, 2012

The Dave I know is very humble. Wasn’t when Dave started championing it and making it a tenet of his incubator class. He’s so bad that his email auto-responder tells you he likely won’t email you back. Tourette’s Dave who loves a good fight is the Dave you know. Not the Dave I know. And thoughtful. Sounds obvious. I’m one of them.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

it will keep you humble and it will help you focus on the things you can control. At heart, he was still a state college kid who grew up in a lower-middle class home, the son of an electrician. I can be curious. But I can't possibly control blessings and good fortune. Always Be A Student - Success Is A Work In Process.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 28, 2012

Heart and class are permanent. Overall you become a better person when you have been humbled by failure. It’s our reaction to our failures that distinguishes winners from losers. A great entrepreneur is like a great racehorse. There’s no quit in them. Defeats are temporary. Don’t rationalize away the hurt.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 25, 2014

Highlight your world-class team as the secret sauce. After highlighting your best competitive features and your intellectual property barriers to entry, I encourage you to put on your humble face, and proclaim your determination to never stop improving your products and processes to out-distance competitors.

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Daradiction

JULY 22, 2013

Plus the view from our front porch is world class, overlooking a solid point break and white sand beach. Bill has lived in baja for almost 20 years and living a humble life repairing surfboards and practicing his Tai Chi. In fact, all that participate would probably say this is their favorite week of the year. I know it it mine.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2018

Highlight your world-class team as the secret sauce. After highlighting your best competitive features and your intellectual property barriers to entry, I encourage you to put on your humble face, and proclaim your determination to never stop improving your products and processes to out-distance competitors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2011

Heart and class are permanent. Overall you become a better person when you have been humbled by failure. It’s our reaction to our failures that distinguishes winners from losers. A great entrepreneur is like a great racehorse. There’s no quit in them. Defeats are temporary. Don’t rationalize away the hurt.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2014

Obviously to understand a “class” of people you have to make broad generalizations. ” Most senior execs in startups feel this way until they become CEO and then they feel more humble. Here are mine. Sales people: Are motivated by cash. Founders think in options. Don’t confuse the two.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 20, 2013

However, his comments resonated, because his unconventional philosophy has clearly not impacted his ability to deliver his customers a world-class adventure experience. By my humble estimation, the congruence of dreams and memories is the best gauge of Return On Life, which is ultimately the truest measure of your wealth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 31, 2010

Heart and class are permanent. Overall you become a better person when you have been humbled by failure. It’s our reaction to our failures that distinguishes winners from losers. A great entrepreneur is like a great racehorse. There’s no quit in them. Defeats are temporary. Don’t rationalize away the hurt.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 18, 2010

I suffer from the “urgency addiction.&# I know it sounds like one of the falsely humble things like telling somebody in a job interview that your weakness is that you’re too much of a perfectionist. I thought through the steps: Get a class of interesting companies. Get VCs to agree to join. Figure out a way to finance it.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 20, 2013

However, his comments resonated, because his unconventional philosophy has clearly not impacted his ability to deliver his customers a world-class adventure experience. By my humble estimation, the congruence of dreams and memories is the best gauge of Return On Life, which is ultimately the truest measure of your wealth.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Earlier this year, I slept on the floor in our startup house, in the Langham Hotel in London, on a Greyhound bus, and then on a first-class flight on United all within the same week. Then, serving as Vice President was one of the most humbling experiences of my life. Everyday is also unpredictable.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 6, 2013

This was way before they had Anderson hall, so we took classes out of an old science building. As a rare opportunity to interview someone who sits near the top of a household-name company, it was both a surreal and and humbling experience. According to Jim, he ended up at UCLA because it was the best school he could afford at the time.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 24, 2015

He has won many over (including me) through his hustle, his relationship, his service approach to venture and the fact that he is, frankly, a very likable and humble guy. For all that Matt has overcome (and truly I take my hat off to him), he still looks and sounds and acts like all of the people of white, privileged executive class in US.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

It’s humbling to spend time in India. You’ve written so much that’s impacted me as a founder – which – I used to sneak up at Steve Blank’s classes at Stanford when I worked at EA, and your lecture was one that I did that for. 00:33:10] DEREK: Humble enough to admit you’re wrong.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

In the summer of 2006 over a cup of Peet’s Coffee, you told me about this new thing called “cloud computing” and that you were trying to come up with a creative way to incorporate it into the curriculum of your upcoming UCSB Computer Science class. In the end the skeptics get convinced because they see others reap the benefits.”.

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socalTECH

MARCH 8, 2011

I'm humbled by the goodness of strangers and the kidness of people. So, I called Digital River, which has a world class store, to help us do it right. I find I'm running as fast as I would with a fast growth software company building really advanced technology. People want to help.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2011

I learned that I wasn’t the strongest kid in class but wasn’t a wimp either. The toughest or coolest kids in class often like somebody who is willing to stand up to them – but not cross them. When I see what Paige Craig has done at Betterworks in just a few months I’m humbled. Sometimes you get smacked.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

You’re not lecturing to a college class, you’re not at a cocktail party and you’re not chatting with a small group in a board meeting. Or take an acting class. But for you it is worth thinking about what you can do in more humble ways to be unique – memorable. Show some energy! You’re on stage!

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InfoChachkie

JULY 20, 2015

Combine this significant pool of sophisticated Angel capital and expertise with UC Santa Barbara’s world-class entrepreneurial program and throw in a critical mass of entrepreneurs bold enough to build businesses around their passions, it’s understandable how a modest-sized community has produced so many successful tech startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 11, 2016

I remember fondly my dad (from Colombia) wanting to eat out of the house and experience the best multi-cultural foods one could actually find in middle-class, suburban Sacramento in the 70s & 80s. I never knew this until 2 years later when I moved to France and was served it again, a humbling experience.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 22, 2016

Effective leaders are humble enough to be able to learn, but also confident enough to step up to challenges when they can add value. While not everyone can be a world-class leader, everyone can be a better leader. When they relate to people, they aren’t stuck in one way of thinking. Have courage. The fourth area is confidence.

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