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I think 'Something Ventured' is a nice piece because it celebrates venture capital in a unique and powerful way.

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Nolan Bushnell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: February 5
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Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.
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Creativity is every company's first driver. It's where everything starts, where energy and forward motion originate. Without that first charge of creativity, nothing else can take place.
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Any business that does not innovate will fail over time.
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In 1989, SimCity introduced an entirely new brand of game play.
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The truth is just an excuse for lack of imagination.
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I've always been a tech-head.
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When it kind of went to 'Street Fighter', where you had to push 13 buttons with all 13 of your fingers and ripped the spine out of somebody, you know, violent games lost the women. Complexity lost the casual gamer.
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Innovation is hard. It really is. Because most people don't get it. Remember, the automobile, the airplane, the telephone, these were all considered toys at their introduction because they had no constituency. They were too new.
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Walk to work, even if it's four miles. Ride a bike to work. Drive a different way. On your way there, try to find beauty. You'd be surprised how much more of the neighborhood you can perceive and experience when you're looking for unique spots of beauty.
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My perception is that I'm a guy who really does a lot of homework surrounding any project that I do.
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I'd love to design a school.
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I founded Atari in my garage in Santa Clara while at Stanford. When I was in school, I took a lot of business classes. I was really fascinated by economics. You end up having to be a marketeer, finance maven and a little bit of a technologist in order to get a business going.
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Today, companies have to radically revolutionize themselves every few years just to stay relevant. That's because technology and the Internet have transformed the business landscape forever. The fast-paced digital age has accelerated the need for companies to become agile.
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When you're building something, you know all of the trade-offs.
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I must confess I've always had a couple of pinball machines in my home and really have enjoyed some of the old classics, like Fireball.
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The best ideas lose their owners and take on lives of their own.
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Every company needs to have a skunkworks, to try things that have a high probability of failing. You try to minimize failure, but at the same time, if you're not willing to try things that are inherently risky, you're not going to make progress.
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A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.
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Hire for passion and intensity there is training for everything else.
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