The Power of Doing: Founder Shares Career Lessons

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Formation

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
startAnd 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
elseIs doing it

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Well, that’s
kind of dumb

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How much
tv do you
watch?

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Mother teresa
was hardly
flush…

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And Facebook
wasn’t the first
social network

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[In most cases]
It’s not the idea
that counts

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