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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Cojones (7/11)

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Having street smarts with no inspirational ability to build teams can yield a great small business but will be difficult to scale into a large VC-backed business. They often make great team members such as head of products, CTO, head of sales, CFO, etc. Few people have it. You have kids, a mortgage, MBA debt? It was May.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

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Inevitably, the excuses begin: I need to hire people to build the product. I need money for the servers. The business person can take all the meetings while the technical folks work on making the product better. No raising money. Like I said, forget everything else and just get your product out the door. No phone system.