Ten Minutes That Mattered


Here are some rules you ought to remember:

By Jim Barksdale via Marc Andreessen

  1. When you see a snake, kill the snake. (snake = problem)
  2. Don’t play with dead snakes.
  3. Often, big opportunities start out looking like snakes… look for the points of disruption.

By Lars Dalgaard

  1. No assholes. No kiss-ups and back-stabbers in the organization. You’re a happy dolphin most of the time, then, when someone attacks, you’re a shark.

William Salem quotes William Shakespeare (Measure for Measure): Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.

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