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Jay Samit

American Businessman

Born: Jan 31, 1961

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Numerous studies, and my own experience as a serial entrepreneur, have proven that companies with a diverse management team provide greater financial returns to investors. Jay Samit

Experience Management Financial Entrepreneur Own Numerous Diverse My Own Studies Investors Returns Greater Proven Provide Management Team Team Companies Serial

It doesn't matter how good your product solution is if users don't enjoy or understand how to use it. Jay Samit

Good Matter Enjoy Solution Understand How Product Use Your Users

No first-time entrepreneur has the business network of contacts needed to succeed. An incubator should be well integrated into the local business community and have a steady source of contacts and introductions. Jay Samit

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The very first thing I tell every intern on the first day is that their internship exists solely on their resume. As far as I am concerned, they are a full-time member of my team. For all the negative stereotypes about millennials, you would be astounded by how hard they work when they believe their contribution matters. Jay Samit

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As a serial entrepreneur, angel investor and public company CEO, nothing irks me more than when a startup founder talks about wanting to cash in with an initial public offering. Jay Samit

While commercials interrupt consumers' enjoyment of a TV program, social media allows video to enter the conversation between friends in a non-intrusive way with an opt-in choice. Jay Samit

Conversation Social Media Way Enter TV Consumers Between Friends Commercials While Social Video Choice Media Enjoyment Interrupt Program

I tell people: walk around for one month and write down three problems in your life every day. At first it's easy - you got stuck in traffic, you missed your alarm - but by the end of the month you're looking really hard to get your 90 problems. The most common things on your list are now billion-dollar businesses. Jay Samit

Life Day You Every Day People Walk Problems Three First Looking Down Every Month Tell Easy Stuck Write Missed Most Around Got Traffic End Get List Common Common Things Really Your Hard Businesses Now Alarm Things

Onboarding starts with satisfying the most basic of Maslow's psychological needs: belonging. New hires shouldn't arrive to an empty cube and be forced to forage through corridors searching for a computer and the bare necessities of office life. A new hire isn't a surprise visitor from out of town. Plan for their arrival. Jay Samit

Life Needs Starts Out Visitor Corridor Through Computer New Town Most Forced Empty Cube Arrival Arrive Hire Surprise Office Psychological Plan Bare Searching Satisfying Basic Necessities Belonging

The secret to fundraising comes down to three magic words: before, more, and strategic. Jay Samit

Words Three Before Down Secret Magic More Strategic Fundraising

When Thomas and John Knoll launched Photoshop 1.0 in 1990, the software couldn't even handle color images. But their offerings got the startup noticed by Apple and Adobe, both of whom became key to the fledgling company's later success. Jay Samit

Success Key Startup Software Thomas Later Photoshop John Both Color Became Got Handle Noticed Company Even Whom Apple Images

I always say the more problems you have, the more opportunities you have. Jay Samit

You Opportunities Problems Say More Always

I'd been on the Internet since the 1970s when it was just for nerds. I started saying, 'Who would benefit from this?' I started imagining a world where young people could have their own email address, back in the days of family AOL accounts. Jay Samit

Saying Family People World Internet Own Young Back Benefit Address Email Would Nerds Could Since Days Been Accounts Just Where Young People Who Started Imagining

You don't need to be an engineer or a tech person to benefit from technology. You can hire them. Jay Samit

You Technology Engineer Benefit Hire Person Them Tech Need

Whether by design or circumstance, every startup will eventually get disrupted. Jay Samit

Will Design Every Startup Circumstance Get Whether Eventually Disrupted

In order to protect against being disrupted, startups also need to recruit employees that are committed to life-long learning. The skills that made your team members valuable may not be the skills needed to take your company to the next level or to compete in emerging markets. Jay Samit

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Every time a twenty-something CEO turns down a multibillion-dollar offer for a company that has little or no revenues, it hits a raw nerve in me. Unlike most professionals, I am not shocked by the seemingly bizarre behavior of those founders who pursue their vision beyond all rational thought or monetary reward. Jay Samit

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