Tara Hunt famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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To me it seems pretty obvious that it would be simple to build a business around helping people achieve autonomy, a feeling of competence and relatedness. In fact, every web company that has been successful thusfar has their business build solidly on one or all of these. And I believe that as people discover that these things are within their reach, they will gravitate more and more towards companies that offer tools to helping them achieve happiness.
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Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.
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Define your own success: If you're going after a million bucks with your own startup, you've already failed yourself. Instead, do something because it's interesting, challenging, it offers you the chance to learn something new or gives you the chance to work with really interesting people. Most startups that are designed to make money, especially in this environment, don't.
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Communicate, communicate, communicate: If anything, make sure to communicate what you're doing, what you're up to, what's going on and what issues your facing as often as you can - even if [you think] no one's listening. This serves both as a log of your activities and a personal record that you can refer to later but also opens the possibility that someone might just come along and be able to help you in some unexpected but totally necessary way!
-- Tara Hunt
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People do make judgments of trust on appearance - in the real world and online.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.
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I still secretly believe that afternoons are the time for the test card and you shouldn't watch television when the sun is out.
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I believe in instinct, not reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.
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Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man's deceiver Was never mine.
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You can have whatever you want if you believe in yourself and keep your feet firmly planted in the ground.
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Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.
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Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.
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People are stupid. There's a lot of dumb stuff that's successful.
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