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A startup job is an investment, after all: Venture capitalists may wager money, but you're staking something more precious - your time. And unlike VCs, you can't spread your risk by betting on a bunch of companies at once. Start with TAM. That's 'total addressable market,' and if it's not big enough, there's no point in talking.
Daniel Lyons
Time
You
Money
Job
Big
Startup
Enough
Market
Unlike
Once
Total
Something
Risk
More
No Point
Point
Investment
Betting
Venture
Talking
Spread
Wager
Big Enough
Bunch
Precious
May
After
Capitalists
Your
Companies
Start
I've never been one to be too careful with my diet. If I really start watching what I eat, I'm already a thin guy - I just won't have any physical strength. I think I'll disappear if I don't eat what I need to eat or what I like to eat.
Daniel Nestor
Strength
Think
Too
Physical
Eat
Guy
Physical Strength
Never
Disappear
Like
Been
Any
Diet
Just
Really
Thin
Start
Watching
Need
Careful
I imagine a child. That child is me. I can reconstruct and vividly remember portions of my own childhood. I can see, taste, smell, feel, and hear them. Then what I do is, not write about that kid or about his world, but start to think of a book that would have pleased him.
Daniel Pinkwater
Me
Book
World
Remember
Smell
Own
Think
Pleased
Kid
Would
Reconstruct
See
Vividly
About
My Own
Write
Feel
Him
Hear
His
Child
Taste
Childhood
Them
Then
Portions
Start
Imagine
When you're seventeen to early twenties, that's the time you're trying to work out who you are. If you're trying to make some kind of artistic or creative impact, that's the age when you start to figure out how to do that.
Daniel Radcliffe
Work
Time
You
Creative
Age
Seventeen
Out
Kind
Impact
Some
Make
How
Trying
Artistic
Work Out
Figure
Who
Twenties
Start
Early
I think I have just always had an awareness that when you go to a premiere and people start cheering and shouting your name and stuff, they are shouting at a perception of you that they have.
Daniel Radcliffe
You
People
Perception
Awareness
Think
Had
Stuff
Name
Cheering
Always
Go
Just
Shouting
Your
Premiere
Start
In racing, things start coming up quicker, and the slipstream is stronger, so even judging in the mirrors how quick the cars are approaching isn't always easy.
Daniel Ricciardo
Car
Approaching
Stronger
Easy
Mirrors
Judging
Always
How
Coming
Up
Quick
Quicker
Racing
Even
Things
Start
After the fall of the Soviet Union, if you start the clock, then 47 journalists, reporters, cameramen, photographers have been killed in Russia since the fall of communism. That makes it the third most deadly country on Earth to practice journalism. That's not a record to be proud of.
Daniel Silva
You
Communism
Country
Practice
Fall
Earth
Photographers
Record
Russia
Journalism
Journalists
Since
Most
Deadly
Makes
Proud
Been
Clock
Reporters
Soviet
Soviet Union
After
Then
Union
Start
Third
But I've been at writing long enough now to know that every three or four books I have to start a new direction.
Daniel Woodrell
Writing
Three
Long
Every
Enough
Books
Direction
New
Know
New Direction
Been
Now
Four
Start
When I develop a character, I usually start by creating a backstory with whatever information I have access to.
Daniella Alonso
Character
Whatever
Develop
Access
Information
Creating
Start
I'm on Twitter, I'm on HuffPo, just any website - you go down a rabbit hole. You start out on HuffPo, then you get a link to this, you get a link to that. Or an article, or a blog. One thing leads to another.
Danielle Schneider
Website
You
Down
Twitter
Out
One Thing
Leads
Another
Go
Blog
Link
Article
Get
Any
Just
Hole
Rabbit
Then
Thing
Start
If I didn't start singing in the cabarets and on my albums, I could have never even tried something like 'Capone.'
Danny Aiello
Singing
Tried
Something
Could
Never
Like
Capone
Even
Start
Albums
If you ever get rich and famous, by definition you are special. You have done something special, and therefore you start to behave special. Then if the floor drops out, and you become down and out, you have a really new perspective.
Danny Bonaduce
You
Perspective
Become
Rich
Down
Definition
Out
Something
Something Special
Drops
New
New Perspective
Get
Behave
Done
Famous
Then
Really
Special
Therefore
Ever
Floor
Start
I'll just start laying out the melody exactly where I want it to fall. And then I'll go back and fill it out. Whereas, in other pieces I'm really just going a couple bars at a time.
Danny Elfman
Time
Fall
Other
Back
Melody
Out
Exactly
Laying
Pieces
Couple
Go
Going
Just
Where
Want
Whereas
Then
Really
Bars
Fill
Start
Being on 'American Idol,' the blessings of glasses have rained from the sky. I really would like to start a Danny line or a Gokey line of eyeglasses.
Danny Gokey
Glasses
Sky
Danny
Would
Like
Blessings
Idol
Line
American
Being
American Idol
Really
Rained
Start
Failure can teach you something, and as long as you're moving very, very quickly, you're going to start piling up the wins. Speed gives you the luxury to be able to fail.
Dara Khosrowshahi
Failure
You
Luxury
Long
Speed
Able
Something
Gives
Wins
Fail
Piling
Up
Very
Quickly
Going
Moving
Teach
Start
If I start something, I have to finish it. I know that's annoying - it drives my husband mad - but even if something's not going my way, I have to see it through.
Darcey Bussell
Husband
Way
Mad
See
Something
Finish
Through
Drives
Know
Annoying
Going
Even
Start
For the fiction students I teach, one of the most common mistakes is to start in the wrong place. Often the actual story doesn't begin until about a third of the way into their narratives. They start off instead with excessive scene-setting, metaphysical speculation, introducing nonessential dramatis personae, throat-clearing, etc.
Darin Strauss
Mistakes
Way
Introducing
About
Excessive
Students
Wrong
Instead
Wrong Place
Most
Until
Narratives
Metaphysical
Off
Begin
Often
Common
Fiction
Story
Place
Etc
Teach
Actual
Start
Speculation
Third
The starkest rejection letter might be followed by a million-dollar advance. Don't let rejection start to look the same as failure.
Darin Strauss
Failure
Rejection
Followed
Advance
Look
Same
Might
Letter
Start
Like all writing rules, the injunction to start with the trouble can be broken, and it should be sometimes - if there's good reason.
Darin Strauss
Good
Broken
Writing
Sometimes
Trouble
Rules
Good Reason
Like
Should
Reason
Injunction
Start
Each film I make changes me in some way. When I start the picture I'm one person and by the time I finish I'm another.
Dario Argento
Time
Me
Picture
Changes
Way
Some
Finish
Make
Another
Person
Each
Film
Start
By The Time
I have the experience and ability to step in on day one in Washington and start working on the challenging problems facing our country.
Darlene Senger
Day
Experience
Problems
Country
Our
Ability
Facing
Step
Day One
Working
Washington
Challenging
Start
Many people think that it is important to have a title before you begin writing the book, but I think you should never sit around waiting for the right title to strike before you start writing. Crack on with the story, put in the hard work, and the title will come eventually.
Darren Shan
Work
Hard Work
You
Waiting
Book
People
Writing
Will
Important
Before
Sit
Think
Strike
Never
Put
Come
Around
Begin
Crack
Story
Title
Should
Hard
Many
Eventually
Right
Start
I think an artist's true worth comes through an inter-generational thing - when you go beyond your own time, and start influencing people in a greater way than just what surrounds you.
Daryl Hall
Time
You
People
Worth
Own
Think
Way
Through
True
Beyond
Greater
Go
True Worth
Surrounds
Than
Artist
Just
Influencing
Your
Thing
Start
The pressure is always stepping on stage with actors who are just so well-established. It's a scary thing. I haven't been around the block that many times, especially not on big projects. Dialogue makes things easier. When you start bouncing dialogue off of other actors, it becomes comfortable; it becomes conversational.
Dave Bautista
You
Pressure
Big
Stage
Other
Projects
Easier
Scary
Scary Thing
Stepping
Bouncing
Comfortable
Around
Makes
Becomes
Always
Block
Dialogue
Been
Off
Times
Just
Conversational
Who
Many
Actor
Thing
Things
Start
When you start out with goals - mine were to play polytonally and polyrhythmically - you never exhaust that. I started doing that in the 1940s. It's still a challenge to discover what can be done with just those two elements.
Dave Brubeck
You
Goals
Challenge
Mine
Those
Out
Never
Exhaust
Still
Doing
Were
Discover
Done
Just
Elements
Play
Start
Started
Two
I save everything up until Sunday night because if I start sending emails on Saturday afternoon, then people have to start responding to me on Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning.
Dave Goldberg
Morning
Me
People
Sunday
Everything
Emails
Responding
Sunday Morning
Sunday Night
Until
Because
Up
Sending
Afternoon
Then
Saturday
Start
Night
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