Amateurs measure potential while professionals measure risk.
Steve Cohen, SAC Capital Advisors
As someone who’s spent more than a decade with start-up entrepreneurs and almost a decade with that peculiarly deluded brand of entrepreneurs called “filmmakers,” I’ve never quite figured out what the right mix of starry-eyed optimism and hard-headed realism bumps ups the odds for success.
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While it was just and proper to ferret out the best quote from Omar Harmoui after the phenomenal announcement of the $750 million sale of his three-year old startup, we did slight Russell Buckley, the other genius behind the AdMob phenomena. So I did some digging and, lo and behold, this gem rose to the [...]
In celebration of Omar Harmoui’s day in the sun — Google just acquired his three-year old company, AdMob, for $750 million in Google stock (total venture capital investment: $50 million) — we dedicate this chew-on-this moment to my favorite Omar Harmoui quote:
If you are a person with a laptop and an idea, don’t worry about [...]
