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Page 1: Every experience. No matter how bad it seems. …...In the venture capital industry, just picking winners is a losing strategy. The goal is to pick blockbusters, companies that can

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Page 2: Every experience. No matter how bad it seems. …...In the venture capital industry, just picking winners is a losing strategy. The goal is to pick blockbusters, companies that can

Steve Jobs represents a wholerange of values and ideas inpluralistic American culture. Hewas a barefoot hippy capitalistwho did more to change oureveryday lives than anyone sinceThomas Edison.

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Every experience.No matter how bad it seems,holds within it a blessing ofsome kind.The goal is to find it

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Page 4: Every experience. No matter how bad it seems. …...In the venture capital industry, just picking winners is a losing strategy. The goal is to pick blockbusters, companies that can

What does it really mean to “thinkdifferent”? Can entrepreneurs be made orare they just born? If Jobs didn’t make anymajor inventions, what was hiscontribution?

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Mark Zuckerberg, Richard Reed and thelate Steve Jobs have all foundedsuccessful, well-respected businesses,while donning a round neck. Theircompanies have also been places ofinnovation, creativity and, most of all,happiness within the work force.

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The word Innovation to me is about creatingsomething tangible from the intangible.Innovators create value that people didn’tknow existed.

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Page 7: Every experience. No matter how bad it seems. …...In the venture capital industry, just picking winners is a losing strategy. The goal is to pick blockbusters, companies that can

Three life lessons to live by:

Opportunity Looks a lot like hard work

Being sexy…Is being really smart, thoughtful and generous

Live life…Build a life — don’t just live one

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I rewrite the rule of the salaryman when Iquit my fast-track job at Industrial Bank ofJapan. I also rewrote a cultural rule when Imandated all Rakuten employees speakEnglish. ... some old rules will need to berewritten.

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If you are a social venture capitalist and arelooking to deploy capital with the highestpossible social return per dollar invested, weshould talk. I think you will find that here isno more measurable, scalable, and highimpact way to educate the world

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We all have the ability to createsomething out of nothing.

Think about that for a second. Youhave that power

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In the venture capital industry, just pickingwinners is a losing strategy.

The goal is to pick blockbusters, companies thatcan scale from a team of founders in a garage toa multi-billion-dollar IPO in less than a decade.

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“The billion-dollar tech startup was oncethe stuff of myth, but now they seem tobe everywhere, back by a bull market anda new generation of disruptivetechnology,”

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Some say the proliferation ofunicorns is a sign of anothertech bubble.

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As the number of unicorns havegrown, so has the skepticism aboutthese billion-dollar maybes.

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Nine out of 10 startups fail, which iswhy the failure post-mortem hasbecome so common that it’spractically a Silicon Valley cliché.Some of these essays are honest,enlightening, and brave

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“If you double the number ofexperiments you do per yearyou’re going to double yourinventiveness.”

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One day you’ll understandthat it’s harder to be kindthan clever

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Let’s start with your relationship withtechnology. No generation has been asliberated and as connected by technologyas yours.

But also, no generation has been asenslaved and as distracted by technology.

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What can we gain by sailing to the moon ifwe are not able to cross the abyss thatseparates us from ourselves?

This is the most important of all voyagesof discovery, ....

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The world will drag you by the hand,yelling, ‘This is important! And this isimportant! And this is important! You needto worry about this! And This! And This!’And each day, it’s up to you to yank yourhand back, put it on your heart and say,‘No. This is what’s important.

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The most powerful beliefs are the ones Icall core beliefs, because they tell you whoyou are. It’s critical to hold positive corebeliefs and to activate them in your dailylife. The more you activate your corebeliefs, the more dynamic and transformedyour reality will be.

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Passion and purpose will keeppeople focused on the job athand, and ultimately separatethe successful from theunsuccessful.

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On your own journey, consider every “No”an opportunity to move toward a “Yes.”Persistence is the key to finding a solution.There will be some dead ends, but stick toyour guns, keep trying different paths toyour goal, and you’ll eventually find theanswer.

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MVP’s help you discover “whatreally matters”

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What separates MVPs fromtraditional market research isthat it is a deliberateexperimentation approachbased in customer behavior, notopinion.

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The first is that we bite off more than we canchew. The second reason most self-improvement effortsare doomed to fail is that our emotions have anasty habit of hijacking our behavior.

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There are two reasons why we’re so bad atreaching our goals:

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Every relationship you have is aninvestment, but how many of theserelationships actually “pay off”? I’m talkingabout emotional dividends. That’s how youmeasure the health of each relationship.

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What does Jobs teach us about the notionsof simplicity and functionality in design?

How do Jobs’s achievements alter the waywe think about technology in relation tohuman life?

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