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The power of doing By Justin Yoshimura Founder & CEO of 500friends
The Power of Ideas
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I’m truly lucky
Investor in
Founder of
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My career began with a
bold decision Not a great idea
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Yeah, pretty lucky
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But I’m not all that special.
Really.
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based on another (bad) idea
I cofounded
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Social rewards Q2 2010 – q4 2010 [50% of our seed funding]
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Ideas are
A dime a dozen
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It’s all about
execution
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Understand that you should
start And keep starting
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Start (and always be)
Pitching perspective customers
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Start (and always be)
Practicing your craft
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Start (and always be)
Recruiting your team
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Common excuses:
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I don’t have
time
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I don’t have
resources
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Someone else
Is doing it
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Well, that’s kind of dumb
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But remember
being bold ≠
gambling
How much tv do you watch?
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But remember
being bold ≠ gambling
Mother teresa was hardly flush…
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But remember
being bold ≠ gambling
And Facebook wasn’t the first social network
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But remember
being bold ≠
gambling
[In most cases]
It’s not the idea that counts
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