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Emails to the Team

Hesitancy

March 7, 2009

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, the providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the [...]

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Fred Wilson: That’s Impossible

March 7, 2009

“If someone says: ‘That’s Impossible’. You should understand it as: ‘According to my very limited experience and narrow understanding of reality, that’s very unlikely’” – Fred Wilson, avc.com.

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How to build a boat…

January 30, 2009

If you want to build  a boat, do not instruct the men to saw wood, stitch the sails, prepare the tools, and organize the work, but rather make them long for setting sail and travel to distant lands. – Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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Think about what you should be doing…

January 29, 2009

Late in the afternoon of May 6th, 1864, Confederate General Jubal Early successfully attacked troops under the command of General John Sedgwick. During that night, General Grant was receiving reports about the “disaster” that had befallen Sedgwick, one of the Union generals expressed grave concerns that Lee would follow up on the Confederate success and [...]

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Creative Aloneness

January 28, 2009

In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone. – Rollo May

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Failures

January 26, 2009

An inventor is simply a person who doesn’t take his education too seriously. You see, from the time a person is six years old until he graduates from college he has to take three or four examinations a year. If he flunks once, he is out. But an inventor is almost always failing. He tries [...]

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Wisdom from Ralph Waldo Emerson

January 25, 2009

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men,  that is genius.  Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for always the inmost becomes the utmost and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets [...]

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Leonard Bernstein – Having Passion for what you do

January 24, 2009

I’ve always enjoyed Leonard Bernstein. I was reminded of something about Bernstein as I listened to the Minnesota Orchestra perform some of his better known compositions, such as Candide and West Side Story not so long ago. Everything that Bernstein did – he did with his own unique passion. Bernstein was one of the most [...]

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