Garrett Camp Quotes

#1. You have to be ready for hard work and frugal spending to get the idea off the ground.

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#2. I have 250 contacts, employees, and investors who, anytime they come across something relevant, will share it with me. I wake up to 10-15 links that people have explicitly recommended for me. I don't have to look for news anymore; it flows to me.

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#3. I'm interested in sites that help people find information and filter what's available. The Internet is so big that no one can stay on top of everything.

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#4. Every time I make a mistake with a company, I write it out and try to figure out why it happened.

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#5. I definitely see a correlation between how many things a company gets right and how fast a company grows.

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#6. If you don't find a new website when you Stumble, we've failed.

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#7. If you know what you want, you use Google. But if you don't know what you want, and you want to be surprised and find something you didn't expect, we want you come to StumbleUpon. Really, that idea of being a discovery engine versus a search engine.

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#8. If I had it to do over, I might have finished school first, then devoted all my time to StumbleUpon instead of dividing my time between the two. In the end, however, it was probably good to take the time I did.

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#9. It all starts with a great idea and teamwork.

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#10. A lot of productivity is capturing ideas. I use a wiki - it's more valuable than e-mail for running a company - and I have a page for every person with whom I interact frequently.

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#11. The bigger a company gets, the more people are involved in decisions, the slower decisions get made. Look, the whole theory of startups is that three motivated people can go and do something that every company can't.

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#12. Facebook is made up of people you've met, but not necessarily who are similar to you. I have 850 'friends,' and a lot are acquaintances, not friends. I don't really know them. If I've met someone one time, how should they be influencing my feed?

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#13. A lot of times naysayers are just people that have not taken the time yet.

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