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    1. Startup Secret No. 18: Stealth is nonsense

      Explore Technology News (Jan 17 2012)

      "If the only thing protecting your startup is a secret, you need a new idea." --Brian Wong, CEO, Kiip At an extremely loud CES party (ours), the extremely energetic CEO of the game monetization company Kiip lectured me on how openness leads to happiness. The more you talk about your startup, Brian says, the more you learn. You get people who love it and want to help. You get questions you haven't considered. You get people who hate your idea -- and you learn from those discussions. What you don' (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Apple   Microsoft   Google

    2. Startup Secret No. 16: That cush job will kill you

      Explore Technology News (Jan 5 2012)

      "Big companies are riskier than small companies." --Laura Yecies, CEO of SugarSync Unlike most of the small tech company CEOs I interview, Laura does not come from a family of entrepreneurs. She told me that, growing up, she learned to "misperceive risk" in business. She believed, as I think many people do, "that smaller companies are inherently risker than big companies." Over time, she has come to understand that she was dead wrong, at least from the perspective of modern career management. "I (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Apple   New York   Yahoo

    3. Startup Secret No. 7: Your friend, the naysayer

      Explore Technology News (Dec 14 2011)

      "Fuck the accolades. Seek the criticism." --Brendan Baker on Quora Man, you startup wonks are a crass bunch. But this is as good advice as yesterday's F-bomb payload. Brendan's Quora post is a must-read for entrepreneurs. Go. It's quick. It is emotionally hard to seek critics, and harder still to listen. Step one is to believe in yourself even more than you believe in your idea. Only after you have achieved that state of being can you extract value from criticism without being affected by the bi (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Apple   Google   Facebook

    4. Startup Secret No. 6: Live the shirt

      Explore Technology News (Dec 13 2011)

      Startup Secret No. 6: Live the shirt "Believe in your fucking self" --Dave McClure's T-Shirt 500 Startups founder Dave McClure is a quote machine. He swears a lot (very entertaining) and his slide decks are filled with aphorisms about building teams, getting funding, and coming out with products. But the core of McClue's mission in life is summed up on this shirt. He goads people to believe in their ideas and their skill, and then to take the leap to execute on it. And then he funds it. A little. His incubator will put in "up to $1 (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Nielsen   Dave McClure   Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    5. Startup Secret No. 5: Know when to walk away

      Explore Technology News (Dec 12 2011)

      Startup Secret No. 5: Know when to walk away "Casinos are paid for by guys not smart enough to walk out the door at 10 p.m." --Peter Horan, executive chairman of Halogen Media, former CEO of About.com This is the "Take the money and run" tip, which I predict will be making a regular appearance in this series, in different disguises. Peter told me this as we were preparing to tape This Week in Startups episode No. 213 wit (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Jason Calacanis

    6. Startup Secret #1: Good genes

      Explore Technology News (Dec 6 2011) Recruiting

      Startup Secret #1: Good genes "The first ten people you hire determine your company's DNA forever." --Halsey Minor, CNET, in 1996 CNET's original CEO told me this in the early days of CNET. He went on to explain that if you bring someone in to your company early on and their ethos or culture isn't what you want, you'll never be able to fully get it out of the company once they start hiring their own people. Always hire ca (Read Full Article)