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“The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage. —Arie de Geus”
― The Creator's Code: The Six Essential Skills of Extraordinary Entrepreneurs
― The Creator's Code: The Six Essential Skills of Extraordinary Entrepreneurs
“I’m here to build something for the long term. Anything else is a distraction,” Facebook cofounder Mark Zuckerberg said when he declined Yahoo’s $1 billion offer to buy his social networking service in 2006. The average twenty-two-year-old would have accepted millions in profit from a dorm-room experiment, but Zuckerberg kept his eyes on the horizon.”
― The Creator's Code: The Six Essential Skills of Extraordinary Entrepreneurs
― The Creator's Code: The Six Essential Skills of Extraordinary Entrepreneurs
“Creators test ideas in low-risk experiments and quickly, creatively, and inexpensively gather insights to determine whether a product or idea will take off. By taking small risks, they avoid catastrophic mistakes. “Failure is something you know only in hindsight,” Handle cofounder and Menlo Ventures partner Shawn Carolan said. As an entrepreneur trying to solve e-mail overload with Handle, a software application, Carolan calls the twists and turns “pivots” that reveal failure only in retrospect. Creators try several approaches to find out what will work and what will not. •”
― The Creator's Code: The Six Essential Skills of Extraordinary Entrepreneurs
― The Creator's Code: The Six Essential Skills of Extraordinary Entrepreneurs
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