Go Forth And Conquer

Startups are freaking hard. Pretty much every day you go through a mood swing that would make you a poster child of TMZ."

I love this quote.
Reply · 6 ·  · 2 hours ago

Alex Castro ·  Top Commenter · Works at Microsoft
Awesome quote.
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Rob Phillips ·  Top Commenter · Founder at Brevidy
Great post! My biggest takeaway: "Make sure you’re constantly doing something that wasn’t possible 3 years ago".
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Lecole Cole · Founder & CEO at Skydera Inc.
Awesome post Aaron.. Great job..
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Kevin Xu · Stanford, California
Fantastic post Aaron, I definitely felt all these things emanating from yourself when you spoke to us Stanford students and every time I see you on stage or on video, the drive, passion, and relentless optimism is what makes yourself a kickass entrepreneur.
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Uyai William Ukpe
don't want to sound shallow but most of the points are obvious.. honestly
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Mohamet Birame Gaye · Designer at Freedom Instinct Clothing
the new young role models
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Uyai William Ukpe
maybe, but someof them say obvious things
Reply ·  · about an hour ago

Uyai William Ukpe
"Do something you’re extremely passionate about" "Make sure you’re constantly doing something that wasn’t possible 3 years ago".. if you want to start a startup and don't know this then you are in for some rude awakening
Reply ·  · about an hour ago

Derek Shanahan · Vancouver, British Columbia
Really great post, Aaron. Off to disrupt food. :)
Reply · 1 ·  · 4 hours ago

Max Woolf ·  Top Commenter · Carnegie Mellon University
An hour later you'll be disrupting your bowels.
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Jason G. Crilly · Rancho Bernardo High School
Greatness! My take is that we're still in BC when it comes to the promise of technology. AD will likely start sometime around Christmas of next year when Thomas Friedman's prediction of global connectivity comes true and people realize their massive ability to initiate change through online collaboration. Now is the time to learn to digest and amass wisdom that will be necessary to navigate a future where your options for everything will be multiplied exponentially (think it's hard now to find Real Housewives of Beverly Hills from your 1000 cable channels, try digging through 1 million).

Over the course of the next 15 months you should be learning as much about the new world as possible. Amass as much info about as many companies as you can from Techcrunch, Quora and Hacker News. Learn about the people who run these companies. Take a look at what Elon Musk is doing with Tesla and SpaceX. Attend Standfords AI or ML class this year (if you're going to attend check out our posterous group http://aiclass.posterous.com/).

In my opinion the greatest challenge for a new company comes when you must choose a direction from an infinite array of possible directions. The path to greatness most likely isn't one direction or another, it's the direction you didn't even know existed.
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Arthur Goikhman
As good a "go forth and multiply" as I've seen. Now for some forbidden apples :)
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Damon Pace ·  Top Commenter · Palo Alto, California
Finally a guest post that rocks! Great work!
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Juney Ham · Vice President, Global Paid Search at Expedia
Great post. This will surely resonate.
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Brian Ley · UNC
Awesome post Aaron.
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Julian Sarokin · Bloomington, Indiana
Wow, amazing post.
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Anuj Verma · Software Developer at Infosys Technologies Ltd.
Awesome