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Adam’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Adam’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Adam Beguelin
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“When we were pitching Truveo, Google was making noise about something that sounded similar. Investors were warning us that Google would kill us. As you can imagine, the first time we heard this we didn’t have a great answer.”
― Silicon Valley Stories: A sampler of startups, stories, and lessons learned
― Silicon Valley Stories: A sampler of startups, stories, and lessons learned
“The key with the VCs is to show them you know your stuff. You need to explain it in a way that makes sense but also take it a little further, so they are slightly confused and don’t want to look stupid. You need to make sure they know that you know what you’re doing.”
― Silicon Valley Stories: A sampler of startups, stories, and lessons learned
― Silicon Valley Stories: A sampler of startups, stories, and lessons learned
“Practicing the pitch is critical. It’s really like a piece of performance art. You must treat it this way. You don’t want to fumble; you need to sound confident and smooth. You need to ensure you hit the critical points and excite the investors.”
― Silicon Valley Stories: A sampler of startups, stories, and lessons learned
― Silicon Valley Stories: A sampler of startups, stories, and lessons learned
“The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose one’s attitude in any given circumstance.”
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“You need three things to become a successful novelist: talent, luck and discipline. Discipline is the one element of those three things that you can control, and so that is the one that you have to focus on controlling, and you just have to hope and trust in the other two.”
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