Figure out what the top five most important stuff is, focus relentlessly on that and keep iterating. Less is more.

Dennis Crowley, CEO, FourSquare

Don’t let people tell you your ideas won’t work. If you have a hunch that something will work, go build it. Ignore the haters.

Sarah Prevette, Founder, Sprouter

Just do it. Get it out there, absorb the feedback, adjust accordingly, hustle like hell, persevere and never lose your swagger.

Sarah Lacy, CEO, PandoDaily

Follow your gut. it may be wrong, but you won’t regret it if you fail. You’ll regret it if you ignore your gut and fail.

Craig Newmark, Founder, Craigslist

Treat people like you want to be treated. Apply to customer service.

Gary Vaynerchuk, CEO, VaynerMedia

Do work for your customers, not for press or VCs. The end user is what matters long term.

Matt Mullenweg, CEO, Automattic

Only reinvent the wheels you need to get rolling.

Jason Goldberg, CEO, Fab.com

Pick one thing and do that one thing — and only that one thing — better than anyone else ever could.

 Alexis Ohanian, CEO, Reddit

Make something people want. Then give more damns than anyone else about it and you’ll make something they love.

Chris Brogan, President, Human Business Works

Buy @ericries’s book. Beyond that? Build a platform. This is the big year.

Matt Howard, CEO, ZoomSafer

Startup wisdom: The number one job of a CEO is to not run out of money.

Brian Wong, CEO, Kiip

Always be learning from others. Whenever you meet someone, you don’t want something from them, you want to learn from them.

Seth Priebatsch, Chief Ninja, SCVNGR and LevelUp

Something my dad taught me: Ask forgiveness, not permission!

Hooman Radfar, Founder, Clearspring

Give away the wins, own the loses. Your job is to curate greatness.

Alexa Hirschfeld, CEO, Paperless Post

Users and employees are key predictive indicators of a company’s success; press and investors generally months behind.

Got some other great wisdom from your fellow CEOs? Leave me a comment!

Source : Gigaom

As many of you probably know, today is my last day. But before I leave,
I wanted to take this opportunity to let you know what a great and
distinct pleasure it has been to type “Today is my last day.”

For nearly as long as I’ve worked here, I’ve hoped that I might one day
leave this company. And now that this dream has become a reality, please
know that I could not have reached this goal without your unending lack
of support. Words cannot express my gratitude for the words of gratitude
you did not express.

I would especially like to thank all of my managers both past and
present but with the exception of the wonderful Saroj Hariprashad: in an
age where miscommunication is all too common, you consistently impressed
and inspired me with the sheer magnitude of your misinformation,
ignorance and intolerance for true talent. It takes a strong man to
admit his mistake – it takes a stronger man to attribute his mistake to
me.

Over the past seven years, you have taught me more than I could ever ask
for and, in most cases, ever did ask for. I have been fortunate enough
to work with some absolutely interchangeable supervisors on a wide
variety of seemingly identical projects – an invaluable lesson in
overcoming daily tedium in overcoming daily tedium in overcoming daily
tedium.

Your demands were high and your patience short, but I take great solace
knowing that my work was, as stated on my annual review, “meets
expectation.” That is the type of praise that sends a man home happy
after a 10 hour day, smiling his way through half a bottle of meets
expectation scotch with a meets expectation cigar. Thanks Trish!

And to most of my peers: even though we barely acknowledged each other
within these office walls, I hope that in the future, should we pass on
the street, you will regard me the same way as I regard you: sans eye
contact.

But to those few souls with whom I’ve actually interacted, here are my
personalized notes of farewell:

To Philip Cress, I will not miss hearing you cry over absolutely nothing
while laying blame on me and my coworkers. Your racial comments about
Joe Cobbinah were truly offensive and I hope that one day you might gain
the strength to apologize to him.

To Brenda Ashby whom is long gone, I hope you find a manager that treats
you as poorly as you have treated us. I worked harder for you then any
manager in my career and I regret every ounce of it. Watching you take
credit for my work was truly demoralizing.

To Sylvia Keenan, you should learn how to keep your mouth shut sweet
heart. Bad mouthing the innocent is a negative thing, especially when
your talking about someone who knows your disgusting secrets.  ; )

To Bob Malvin (Mr. Cronyism Jr), well, I wish you had more of a back
bone. You threw me to the wolves with that witch Brenda and I learned
all too much from it. I still can’t believe that after following your
instructions, I ended up getting written up, wow. Thanks for the
experience buddy, lesson learned.

Don Merritt (Mr. Cronyism Sr), I’m happy that you were let go in the
same manner that you have handed down to my dedicated coworkers. Hearing
you on the phone last year brag about how great bonuses were going to be
for you fellas in upper management because all of the lay offs made me
nearly vomit. I never expected to see management benefit financially
from the suffering of scores of people but then again, with this
company’s rooted history in the slave trade it only makes sense.

To all of the executives of this company, Jamie Dimon and such. Despite
working through countless managers that practiced unethical behavior,
racism, sexism, jealousy and cronyism, I have benefited tremendously by
working here and I truly thank you for that. There was once a time where
hard work was rewarded and acknowledged, it’s a pity that all of our
positive output now falls on deaf ears and passes blind eyes. My advice
for you is to place yourself closer to the pulse of this company and
enjoy the effort and dedication of us “faceless little people” more.
There are many great people that are being over worked and mistreated
but yet are still loyal not to those who abuse them but to the greater
mission of providing excellent customer support. Find them and embrace
them as they will help battle the cancerous plague that is ravishing the
moral of this company.

So, in parting, if I could pass on any word of advice to the lower
salary recipient (“because it’s good for the company”) in India or Tampa
who will soon be filling my position, it would be to cherish this
experience because a job opportunity like this comes along only once in
a lifetime.

Meaning: if I had to work here again in this lifetime, I would better
kill myself.

To those who I have held a great relationship with, I will miss being
your co-worker and will cherish our history together. Please don’t
bother responding as at this very moment I am most likely in my car
doing 85 with the windows down listening to Biggie.

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“Not very long,” answered the Mexican.

“But then, why didn’t you stay out longer and catch more?” asked the American.

The Mexican explained that his small catch was sufficient to meet his needs and those of his family.

The American asked, “But what do you do with the rest of your time?”

“I sleep late, fish a little, play with my children, and take a siesta with my wife. In the evenings, I go into the village to see my friends, have a few drinks, play the guitar, and sing a few songs. I have a full life.”

The American interrupted, “I have an MBA from Harvard and I can help you! You should start by fishing longer every day. You can then sell the extra fish you catch. With the extra revenue, you can buy a bigger boat.”

“And after that?” asked the Mexican.

“With the extra money the larger boat will bring, you can buy a second one and a third one and so on until you have an entire fleet of trawlers. Instead of selling your fish to a middle man, you can then negotiate directly with the processing plants and maybe even open your own plant. You can then leave this little village and move to Mexico City, Los Angeles, or even New York City! From there you can direct your huge new enterprise.”

“How long would that take?” asked the Mexican.

“Twenty, perhaps twenty-five years,” replied the American.

“And after that?”

“Afterwards? Well my friend, that’s when it gets really interesting,” answered the American, laughing. “When your business gets really big, you can start buying and selling stocks and make millions!”

“Millions? Really? And after that?” asked the Mexican.

“After that you’ll be able to retire, live in a tiny village near the coast, sleep late, play with your children, catch a few fish, take a siesta with your wife and spend your evenings drinking and enjoying your friends.”

Moral of this story is: Know where you’re going in life… you may already be there.

That’s Direct Marketing.

2. You attend party & your friend goes to a girl & pointing at you tells her. He’ is very rich,
marry him.

That’s Advertising.

3. Girl walks to you & says u are rich, can u marry me?

That’s Brand Recognition

4. You say I m very rich marry me & she slaps u

That’s Customer Feedback

5. You say I m very rich marry me & she introduces you to her husband

That’s Demand & Supply Gap

6. Before you say I m rich, marry me, you wife arrives

That’s Restriction from Entering New Market

The video portrays the story behind the creation of Nokia’s first Windows Phone and their tight collaboration with various teams at Microsoft.

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