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How To Become Legendary- What Michael Jordan Taught Me About Entrepreneurship
- royrod 16y agoI think there are some good parallels. The analogy of Dharmesh as Jordan is funny :) although he is a great sensei of course. I especially agree with disregarding the press and short-term events/wins. Working hard every day builds up over time into something worthwhile.
- dinedal 16y agoOnStartups.com always takes forever to load the actual article. The difference between this and sites that generate static HTML for their posts is incredible.
- JoelSutherland 16y agoIt's not a CMS issue, it is the 61 other HTTP requests: http://gtmetrix.com/reports/onstartups.com/Zxyd9pda http://gtmetrix.com/reports/onstartups.com/Zxyd9pda
- dshah 16y agoYou're right. Sorry about that. I need to go through and clean-house a little bit (too much stuff has accumulated over the years). I'll make it faster.
- dinedal 16y agoThanks for the response, and to give you an idea of what kind of experience I am getting, I am able to load everything except the article text rather quickly, but I've yet to read the article itself yet because even after leaving the tab open for 10 minutes, I am still "transfering data." I want to read your article, I really do!
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- jasonlbaptiste 16y agoHey check out this one too. It's personally my favorite: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh9IGY2U2dQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh9IGY2U2dQ
- yankeeracer73 16y agoOr this one: "There are no cinderellas" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rnySBS5Au0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rnySBS5Au0
- Sukotto 16y agoStarting a company is a roller-coaster ride like none other. YCombinator actually has a graph here about this exact subject (now updated to include MixPanel analytics FAIL!). I would very much like to see that graph. Also, did something happen to mixpanel? I thought they were doing well.
- jasonlbaptiste 16y agoHere's the pic. http://instagr.am/p/eq62/ http://instagr.am/p/eq62/ I worded that sentence poorly. Mixpanel is killing it from what I've heard.
- macco 16y agoWhat Michal Jordan did, was the opposite of Entrepreneurship: It's called optimization. If he would have created a new game, he would be an entrepreneur.
- achompas 16y agoTrue, but his suggestions on competing at the highest level definitely apply to startups.
- tdmackey 16y agoBeing a good athlete is only part of what he did. He also created a brand around himself becoming far and away the most marketed sports figure in history that generated billions of dollars and boosted sales of many brands he was affiliated with. That doesn't happen by just optimizing your ability to play a game.
- macco 16y agoBut he did no innovating - what is the of entrepreneurship. By the way it is dangerous approach to try to get as good as Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, Roger Federer at anything. You have to be the best in the WORLD. Very high risk strategy.
- lian 16y agoThe Michael Jordan approach, however, is one that is as aptly applied to entrepreneurship as it is to optimizing your abilities and success in any realm. He's created a product called Michael Jordan, and that product has proved unarguably to be a game-changer, if not an entirely new game itself.
- foljs 16y agoThat it can only happen if you are born for this?