Joe Kraus quotes
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“Any time you build a company designed to be sold, you ultimately get less value if it's sold.”
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“Don't forget to balance optimism with fact and belief with reality.”
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“The cost of hiring someone bad is so much greater than missing out on someone good.”
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“Set measurable goals, measure relative to competition.”
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“Media companies, under the guise of piracy, are asking congress to give them more control over fair use. Hollywood wants to control innovation.”
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“We are creating and encouraging a culture of distraction where we are increasingly disconnected from the people and events around us, and increasingly unable to engage in long-form thinking. People now feel anxious when their brains are unstimulated.”
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“So my advice to startups in this particular category is if you’re going to put your product in beta - put your business model in beta with it. Far too often we are too product focused and not business-model focused. That’s one thing I definitely would have done differently with JotSpot.”
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“Fair use is important to innovators as well as consumers. It's fair use that allowed the VCR to innovate on top of the television.”
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“A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.”
Source : "The future of labor-management cooperative programs" by John Raymond Phillips, (p. 6), 1994.
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“Marketing is what a company is in business to do. Marketing is a company's ultimate objective.”
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“I bet it gets pretty lonely with only your ego for company.”
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“Honestly, what keeps me grounded is my faith and my value system.”
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