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Starting a business is risky. Half of all new businesses fail to experience a fifth anniversary. And everyone knows that you could lose all the money you've invested in your new company and then some. Those are the obvious risks of trying to be an entrepreneur.
Scott Shane
You
Business
Risks
Experience
Money
Entrepreneur
Half
Lose
Everyone
Those
Some
Risky
Could
Invested
Fail
Anniversary
New
Obvious
Knows
Trying
Then
Fifth
Your
Businesses
Company
Starting
Whatever the reasons, would-be entrepreneurs should be forewarned. Going into business for yourself isn't just risky because your business might fail. It's risky because you might have a harder time getting a job in the future, even if you succeed with your company.
Scott Shane
Future
Time
You
Business
Yourself
Job
Whatever
Would-Be
Risky
Entrepreneurs
Fail
Because
Getting
Going
Just
Succeed
Might
Should
Your
Reasons
Company
Even
Harder
Harder Time
Developing a good, healthy culture is extremely important at a startup. Culture reflects the essence of a startup's operation because it directly affects the success of a company's hiring practices and overall strategy.
Scott Weiss
Success
Good
Culture
Important
Healthy
Strategy
Startup
Extremely
Directly
Developing
Overall
Operation
Because
Practices
Hiring
Affects
Reflects
Essence
Company
It's really hard to break through the clutter and get the attention of the top investors, as they typically only look at deals that come in from a warm, credible referral. There's absolutely nothing more credible than getting an endorsement from a well-known subject matter expert who has already put their own money into your company.
Scott Weiss
Money
Matter
Own
Nothing
Top
More
Only
Through
Absolutely
Absolutely Nothing
Put
Investors
Attention
Come
Look
Deals
Subject
Subject Matter
Than
Get
Getting
Endorsement
Break
Expert
Warm
Clutter
Really
Your
Hard
Who
Company
Credible
When my co-founder and I first had the idea for IronPort, an email security company, we triangulated a list of the 20 most relevant people in email - former CEOs, open source technologists, investors and thought leaders.
Scott Weiss
People
Thought
First
Email
Relevant
Security
Open
Had
Investors
Leaders
Open Source
Idea
Most
Source
List
Former
CEOs
Company
Sports teams, people who follow sports teams, religion, churches, work - any company, I find that people just generally have a need to belong to something larger than themselves.
Sean Durkin
Work
Religion
Sports
People
Churches
Find
Follow
Something
Generally
Than
Any
Just
Themselves
Who
Company
Teams
Larger
Belong
Need
I'm a hard-nosed businessman, that if a company is paying its way, increasing profits for thirty-odd consecutive years, you don't put it into receivership.
Sean Quinn
You
Increasing
Way
Put
Years
Paying
Businessman
Company
Profits
Consecutive
Horizontal meetings are team or project meetings, set up to coordinate individual activities. When I worked in a large tech company, those meetings just popped up in my calendar by the dozen.
Sebastian Thrun
Meetings
Project
Those
Horizontal
Individual
Calendar
Up
Just
Worked
Team
Large
Company
Activities
Tech
Coordinate
Dozen
Set
If I wasn't an actress I would run a fortune 500 company.
Sela Ward
Run
Would
Fortune
Company
Actress
When you buy a company at an auction, and you are committing yourself to pay some $300 million to the state because it was a privatization deal, and you don't pay it, is it OK? Isn't it something that deserves court procedures?
Sergei Lavrov
Buy
You
Yourself
Pay
State
OK
Some
Something
Because
Court
Auction
Deal
Privatization
Committing
Procedures
Company
Deserves
Million
It shouldn't be easier for a company to get a tax break on buying another robot than training their employees to gain new skills for the modern economy.
Seth Moulton
Training
Employees
Robot
Easier
New
Economy
Another
New Skills
Than
Get
Modern
Tax
Tax Break
Break
Gain
Skills
Company
Buying
There's definitely pieces of Samoa Joe in the Seth Rollins repertoire, so it's cool he's part of the company now - something you thought you'd never see.
Seth Rollins
You
Thought
Definitely
Joe
See
Something
Never
He
Part
Pieces
Repertoire
Cool
Company
Now
I'm not the guy to get big record company budgets. My budget is Britney Spears' catering money.
Shaggy
Money
Big
Britney
Britney Spears
Record
Record Company
Guy
Budget
Budgets
Catering
Get
Spears
Company
You got to understand: when you go into a record company and give them a something that doesn't sound like what's on the radio, it's hard to sell it.
Shaggy
You
Record
Record Company
Give
Something
Like
Understand
Got
Sound
Go
Sell
Them
Hard
Radio
Company
When I sold my first company at 30, I could have done whatever I wanted to do.
Shai Agassi
First
Whatever
Sold
Could
Done
Wanted
Company
For a company the size of ECW, there wasn't room for multiple over-the-top personalities.
Shane Douglas
Over-The-Top
Size
Personalities
Room
Company
Multiple
When you're a younger company, you struggle, struggle, struggle with, 'How are we going to pay the bills, and how are we going to hire people, and how are we going to get a bigger office?' Just managing the company is so hard.
Shane Smith
You
Struggle
People
Pay
How
Hire
Office
Get
Going
Managing
Just
Bigger
Younger
Hard
Bills
Company
T-Mobile U.S.A. is one company that uses fear and intimidation to scare workers away from union representation.
Sharan Burrow
Fear
Intimidation
Scare
Representation
Workers
Union
Uses
Company
Away
I used to work at a label. I used to be a publicist. I used to be at a management company.
Sharon Van Etten
Work
Management
Label
Used
Company
Publicist
Turnover can be one of the most expensive problems at a company.
Shawn Achor
Problems
Most
Expensive
Turnover
Company
Brands' products should be the manifestation of a company's values. Those values should be the subject of all sorts of wonderful stories that comprise your company's narrative.
Shawn Amos
Wonderful
Values
Those
Sort
Narrative
Subject
Brands
Stories
Manifestation
Should
Your
Products
Company
If I were to retire, I would keep my family's interest in the company the same and say, Don't sell.
Sheldon Adelson
Family
Say
Would
Retire
Were
Sell
Same
Interest
Company
Keep
The bottom line is this: A private company and/or its industry allies should not knowingly lie to the American people about the harms that are caused by its product.
Sheldon Whitehouse
Lie
People
About
Allies
Bottom
Bottom Line
Knowingly
Industry
Caused
Line
Private
American
American People
Should
Product
Company
When I was studying, I was part of a children's entertainment company, and I'd have to dress up as a pirate or fairy and go to corporate parties and entertain the children. I will never, ever do that again. The worst was the demanding children - I've never been so exhausted doing a job as that one.
Shelley Conn
Entertainment
Will
Job
Demanding
Exhausted
Corporate
Worst
Entertain
Dress
Dress-Up
Never
Part
Studying
Parties
Fairy
Doing
Go
Been
Up
Pirate
Children
Again
Company
Ever
Donald Trump outsources his ties to China. He outsourced his furniture to Turkey. I know a company in Ohio that could make that furniture in Archibald, Ohio.
Sherrod Brown
Furniture
Could
He
Know
Make
Ties
His
Trump
Donald
Donald Trump
Ohio
China
Turkey
Company
We are building a brain trust of leading app talent. These are very highly regarded developers, and SGN is blessed to have them join to help build a great company that brings innovation, creativity, and joy to our users.
Shervin Pishevar
Great
Trust
Creativity
Innovation
Joy
Blessed
Build
Building
Our
Join
Developers
Leading
Highly
Talent
Brain
Very
Regarded
Them
App
Help
Users
Company
Brings
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