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Livingston: What advice would you give to someone thinking about starting a startup? Newmark: Trust your instincts and your moral compass. I've used that phrase too much in this conversation. The deal is: we're not pious about this. We try hard not to be sanctimonious. This is the way people really live; we just don't talk about it. I'd prefer to b

Watch What They Do, Not What They Say

second, related intrinsic goal, which is service to others—the sense that your job is making the world a better place.

Enlist judges to gauge your progress.

Livingston: What makes a good business partner? Kahle: Compatibility. Mutual respect through hard times. Maybe it's clear lines of differentiation for who does what. But finding a good business partner is a fantastically valuable thing to do. So the second startup, Alexa, I started with a partner as a full cofounder and that worked out really well.

I relied heavily on advisors in my first company. We didn’t know the industry and nobody took us seriously. Our 5 advisors each had around a half percent of equity and basically just made credible intros. I met with each once per month, so I’d get a fresh batch of intros weekly without it being a huge time burden for any of them. On a bit of a tang

How to allocate your finite time and energy efficiently is something you constantly have to revisit as an investor, founder, parent, and human being. The cost of not revisiting your allocation of time is great, leading to massive regret at having spent too much time on a startup, marriage, friendship, or investment that is destined to disappoint yo

Having seen so many students go through my classrooms, I’ve come to know that a lot of parents don’t realize the power of their words. Depending on a child’s age and sense of self, an offhand comment from Mom or Dad can feel like a shove from a bulldozer. I’m not even sure I should have made the reference to Logan growing up to be social chair of a