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The power of doing By Justin Yoshimura Founder & CEO of 500friends The Power of Ideas

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The power of doing By Justin Yoshimura Founder & CEO of 500friends

The Power of Ideas

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I’m truly lucky

Investor in

Founder of

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My career began with a

bold decision Not a great idea

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Yeah, pretty lucky

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But I’m not all that special.

Really.

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based on another (bad) idea

I cofounded

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Social rewards Q2 2010 – q4 2010 [50% of our seed funding]

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Ideas are

A dime a dozen

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It’s all about

execution

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Understand that you should

start And keep starting

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Start (and always be)

Pitching perspective customers

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Start (and always be)

Practicing your craft

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Start (and always be)

Recruiting your team

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Common excuses:

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I don’t have

time

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I don’t have

resources

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Someone else

Is doing it

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Well, that’s kind of dumb

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But remember

being bold ≠

gambling

How much tv do you watch?

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But remember

being bold ≠ gambling

Mother teresa was hardly flush…

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But remember

being bold ≠ gambling

And Facebook wasn’t the first social network

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But remember

being bold ≠

gambling

[In most cases]

It’s not the idea that counts