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Imagine the world of mobile based on Nokia and Motorola if Apple had not been restarted by a missionary entrepreneur named Steve Jobs who cared more for his vision than being tactical and financial.
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In my view, it’s irreverence, foolish confidence and naivety combined with persistence, open mindedness and a continual ability to learn that created Facebook, Google, Yahoo, eBay, Microsoft, Apple, Juniper, AOL, Sun Microsystems and others.
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Screw up often; but screw up ahead of everybody else, and than learn as much, and than use it to make subsequent investments.
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How would you compete against yourself?
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Future is not extrapolation of past
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I'm not a political person. I'm a techie nerd, and I enjoy the techie part. I mean, all my life, I've loved great technology.
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The only way you multiply resources is with technology. To really affect poverty, energy, health, education, or anything else - there is no other way.
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Success comes to those that dare to dream dreams and are foolish enough to try and make them come true.
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The state of healthcare today is that we are busy in the practice of medicine vs. being in the science of medicine.
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Everybody else is afraid to fail. I do not really care because when I fail, I try something new.
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My willingness to fail gives me the ability to succeed.
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Seeking an acquisition from the start is more than just bad advice for an entrepreneur. For the entrepreneur it leads to short term tactical decisions rather than company-building decisions and in my view often reduces the probability of success.
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One of the best things data can enable us to do is to ask questions we didn't know to ask.
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Oil replacements and then efficiencies in engines and housing and the way we build houses is a very interesting market.
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Any problem is an opportunity. The bigger the problem, the bigger the opportunity.
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The first rule of venture capitalism is hands-on experience. You have to get your hands dirty.
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You have to invent the future you want.
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Startups allow technologists and scientists to take risks and change plans in a way that would be frowned upon in a big company. Having said that, big companies will play a key role in certain areas and in partnerships with little companies. Each has its strengths.
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