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80% of success in your career will come from just showing up. The world is run by those who show up…not those who wait to be asked.

— Steve Blank

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A startup is a temporary organization in search of a scalable, repeatable, profitable business model.

The Startup Owner’s Manual (2012)

Confusing testosterone with strategy is a bad idea.

Market type influences everything a company does.

The Startup Owner’s Manual (2012)

The best startups discover a situation where customers have tried to build a solution themselves.

The Startup Owner’s Manual (2012)

In a startup, founders define the product vision and then use customer discovery to find customers and a market for that vision.

The Startup Owner’s Manual (2012)

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To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.

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Greatness by nature includes a power, but not a will to power.

Martin Buber Between Man and Man (1965)

The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments.

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