Your daily dose of inspiring quotes for entrepreneurs, mixed with the occasional photo from my iPhone.
I'm the Founder of reMail, a mobile email startup.
Previously, I was the VP Engineering at Xobni (makers of a rockin' Outlook plugin), a Software Engineer at Google (makers of awesomeness in general), and a grad student at ETH Zurich (makers of smart people since 1855, such as Albert Einstein, John von Neumann, Santiago Calatrava, Herzog & de Meuron, Urs Hoelzle, and Niklaus Wirth).
This Posterous is for scribbling down inspiring and uplifting quotes that I come across. Positive vibes and good karma. Being an entrepreneur is hard and sometimes discouraging - come here for your daily dose of positivity.
(Yes, I'm going to try to post every single day!).
You can find my "real" blog at http://www.gaborcselle.com/blog - that's where I post original content, although less frequently.
My Twitter is at http://www.twitter.com/gabor.
Oh also, mail me your quote suggestions - my email address is on my homepage.
Water show
We are in Vegas for Halloween + to celebrate some yet to be announced awesomeness.
Loving the water show from Jasmine at the Bellagio ...
Gabor
Posted from Paradise, NV
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"Making money takes practice, just like playing the piano takes practice."
"Most of the people I know who are money-making-machines got started really early. Lemonade stands, car washes, lawn mowing, baseball card trading. I think the reason they are money-making-machines today is because they started early. They learned the skills of negotiation, pricing, selling, and market-reading early. They have more practice selling than most people. That’s one of the reasons they’re better at it than most people."
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"reMail stand heads and shoulders above [iPhone Mail Search]"
Read this review of reMail on VentureBeat. We just released a major update today! :-)
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"It is not a sofa"
"It is not a sofa. Nor is it a sofa group. And it is certainly not a neatly arranged row of armchairs. What it is is a matchless seating environment that calls to mind the great masterpieces of landscape gardening. Or a perfectly fashioned town en miniature. In his inner eye, Hugo de Ruiter envisaged an unending play of possible additions and variations when he put his concept for the DS-165 down on paper. The result is a new design for contemporary society in its ever-growing quest for the structures of security in the midst of the breakneck change of information technology."
Really? It looks like a sofa to me. I'm amazed about the airy prose in commercials for lifestyle goods such as cars or high-end furniture. Who writes these things?
I guess for $20000 I would want it to be a new design for society. A sofa would cost much less.
(I found this gem at upscale furniture store Limn in SOMA. Pic #3 shows you the actual sofa, read more here.)
Posted from San Francisco, CA
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The Best Quotes From Startup School
This is my compilation of insightful quotes from yesterday's Startup School event. If you have more, let me know in the comments!
Mark Pincus: "First time entrepreneurs get first time VC's"Mark Pincus: 'Not having a clear goal leads to death by a thousand compromises.' Mitch Kapor: "Take culture seriously - every action and inaction sends a message."Mitch Kapor: "Hold people accountable - are your tolerating abusive
behavior by star performers?" Tony Hsieh: "Chase the vision, not the money."Tony Hsieh: "Whatever you're thinking, think bigger."Mark Zuckerberg: "Values are worthless unless they're controversial" Mark Zuckerberg: "For the first 2 years of Facebook, all the advice Peter Thiel would give us was: 'don't mess it up"'Mark Zuckerberg: "Initially, facebook was set up as a Florida LLC. When I came out & met a lawyer that was the first thing he undid." Biz Stone: "In the beginning of Twitter someone said 'twitter is fun - but it's not useful'. Ev dryly remarked: 'so is ice cream'"
Paul Buchheit: "I wrote the first version on Gmail in a single day,but it would only search my email. I sent it out to everyone at Google. Their initial feedback was: 'It's cool but I would like it to search my email, not just yours'"
behavior by star performers?" Tony Hsieh: "Chase the vision, not the money."Tony Hsieh: "Whatever you're thinking, think bigger."Mark Zuckerberg: "Values are worthless unless they're controversial" Mark Zuckerberg: "For the first 2 years of Facebook, all the advice Peter Thiel would give us was: 'don't mess it up"'Mark Zuckerberg: "Initially, facebook was set up as a Florida LLC. When I came out & met a lawyer that was the first thing he undid." Biz Stone: "In the beginning of Twitter someone said 'twitter is fun - but it's not useful'. Ev dryly remarked: 'so is ice cream'"
Paul Buchheit: "I thought about prepping my talk - but it seemed like a lot of work so I didn't"
Paul Buchheit: "They told me to wing it and that it would be cool" (this was apparently inspired by the series Aqua Team) Jason Fried: "If Basecamp had made $5000 a month after 1 year we would have been happy. It made that after 6 weeks."
Jason Fried: "The best people are everywhere" Jason fried: "After sex, relationships, and family the most intimate transaction between people is to take their money" Jason Fried: 'The mindset on day 1 of a bootstrapped startup is: "Make Money". The mindset on day 1 in a funded startup is "Spend money"'Greg McAdoo: "Founders have gotten better on recent years with articulating who needs their product and why" Greg McAdoo on enterprise sales in recessions: "All the talk about your vision is useless. You have to prove an ROI so strong that the buyer is scared not to buy from you"Greg McAdoo: "Startups in recessions buy the cash register early" Paul Graham on startups & dating: "You'll have to wait for the liquidity event, before you can have the liquidity event."
Thanks, YCombinator, for putting on this event! Also thanks to @hnshah @JasonShen, @immad @kul @kimmaicutler for all the live tweets, some of which I stole for this post.
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