Because big businesses aren’t built on gimmicks. You can blitz your way through Sand Hill Road and spike up the App Store charts on gimmicks, but you can’t actually use them to replace Gmail, or Salesforce, or Instagram, or Instagram, or Instagram, or Instagram. Even seemingly instant successes can’t become lasting companies without putting in the ... See more

Software engineer David Clarke on priorities:

"20 years from now, the only people who will remember that you worked late are your kids."

It may be easier to do if you’re working for someone else, knowing that “this job is just my nine-to-five gig, and at least on a Friday when I close my office door for the last time this week, I will not think about work again until maybe Sunday evening.” But most entrepreneurs struggle to disconnect from work. You never stop thinking about it, whe

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