RT @siggsau: enjoying @jason’s…

Posted on June 13, 2012 by richard

RT @siggsau: enjoying @jason‘s interview by Don Dodge on This Week in Startups podcast http://t.co/dFDD1hbG #NetPres

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  1. richard says:
    June 13, 2012 at 7:38 am

    Blogging my followup on this outside of FB’s ‘walled garden’ and from my facebook.com/richard.siggs Wall:

    As I tweeted from my personal Twitter acct today (https://twitter.com/siggsau/status/212783437608796161), here’s some great quotes from Jason’s Interview wrt Entrepeneuralism :

    “What motivates me? .. Then you realise you’re a Mountain Climber .. I like to climb.”

    “I have a little Entrepeneurial ADD.”

    “How do you measure success?” “For me success is how much joy are you getting out of what you’re doing each day .. How much do you love coming to work each day and building stuff.”

    “I like to create brands .. That people hold a special place in their heart for them .. Even if they don’t still exist.”

    “Good is the same as Average which is the same as Bad in people’s minds.”

    “People will not leave something that’s excellent for another excellent thing .. Certainly not for another good thing.”

    “If you can’t compete against that amazing excellent product .. You’re better off turning it off, and creating something else that’s excellent.”

    “The Product Wins.”

    “Starting is easy, finishing is hard.”

    I really liked the critical note wrt Open-Source from 26min in.

    “.. or they’re a great Operations person, they’re taking the CEO slot. You know it’d be better for 3 or 4 of those companies to consolidate, and really make a run at a meaningful business. But, that’s Ok.”

    “I think perservering is very good. Now, if you’re absolutely certain that you’ve explored every other option, yeah, then pivot.”

    “If everything that you do in your career is a home run, then you’re not swinging hard enough .. You cannot win every time, you should be failing 2 out of 3 things that you do.”

    “If you have ‘moderate success’ is much worse than failure .. and you can get your business to exactly the amount of money your payroll is, and you just go sideways, that’s when you’re truely screwed .. You take your eyes off the prize .. You’re a Mom’n’Pop business.”

    “You will get your butt kicked, over and over & over again .. If you don’t have the passion, when you get knocked out, you’re not going to get up.”

    “Entrepeneurship is a Test of Wills.”

    “There’s more painful and hard times in Entrepeneurship, than good times .. The darkest hour is just before the dawn.”

    —

    So yeah, I really enjoyed that podcast and I highly recommend its 38 minutes, see http://thisweekin.com/thisweekin-startups/don-dodge-interviews-jason-for-google-root-access-twist-265

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