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Risk-Takers who can Persist " The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that's changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks ." Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder / CEO Entrepreneurship without risk-taking is like Investing without money. An entrepreneur must have a fearless, never-say-die attitude in the face of all adversities. If you don't have the balls to take everything that is thrown at you and persist, you can't be an entrepreneur. Entrepreneurs don't take blind risks though; they're calculative, and stack up the odds in their favor. Visionaries who can Sell " Entrepreneurs are like visionaries. One of the ways they run forward is by viewing the thing they're doing as something that's going to be the whole world ." Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn founder Entrepreneurship begins with a vision to change the status quo, change what's not working, even change the world.  " If you...

Google CEO Larry Page was on stage with Charlie Rose at a TED conference on March 19. Page shared key insights on many topics, his vision of the future, success and failures, NSA, self-driving cars, medical records, and much more. Here are some excerpts from his talk: " The main thing that has caused companies to fail , in my view, is that they missed the future " "We are still at the very early stages with search. Computers don't know where you are and what you are doing" " When we bought Android, it was small and I felt guilty working on it, but it was smart, it was the future " “ He (Elon Musk) wants to go to Mars... That’s a worthy goal. We have a lot of employees at Google who’ve become pretty wealthy. You’re working because you want to change the world and make it better; if the company you work for is worthy of your time, why not your money as well? We just don’t think about that. I’d like for us to help out more than we are. ” " Wouldn...

by Sanjay Dalal, founder & CEO, oGoing Just How Valuable Is Google's "20% Time"? Michael Schrage of Harvard Business Review summed it up after Google announced that it is cutting back the 20% free time given to "all" employees to "innovate". Google's innovation culture is being shaped as much by the performance data of its people as by their technical intuitions and insights. In other words, tomorrow's Google won't embrace 20% "free time" for everyone; innovation best practice will mean some individuals and teams will have as much discretionary time as they need while others will have virtually nil. Read more Now that Google has  put some rules   around “20% time,” the one day a week an employee spends on side projects, people are having a field day forecasting the end of innovation at the company that claims to “use their powers for good, not evil.” To those people, I ask one question: Can a company in today’s highly competit...