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While I can’t be sure which businesses will be the next Google, Uber, or Facebook, I can be pretty sure which businesses will not be—and not waste time engaging them. That’s really half the battle, focusing on the winners, the big markets, and the clear ideas.

Sometimes developing your basic goods and making the most effective use of them is best accomplished when you can go beyond the crowd and identify something distinctive on your own—that’s when really special things can happen.

choice of project types influences significantly, as we shall see, the economic and…

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As billionaire PayPal founder and early Facebook investor Peter Thiel put it: [You] probably won’t have a bunch of equally good distribution strategies. Engineers frequently fall victim to this because they do not understand distribution. Since they don’t know what works, and haven’t thought about it, they try some sales, BD, advertising, and viral

In the simplest way possible, Brad was passing on one of the entrepreneur’s greatest strengths—their problem-solving abilities.