American - Businessman | June 24, 1984 -
I think the most important trait for an entrepreneur is persistence. When you try to do something new and difficult, you are more likely to fail than to succeed.
Trip Adler
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I learned how important timing is; having a really good idea five years ahead of its time is practically worthless.
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Entrepreneurship is about tackling big problems - often non-obvious problems - that will have a meaningful impact on the world, and this usually involves solving these problems in counterintuitive ways.
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When most people hit failure, they give up, but good entrepreneurs simply treat failure as a learning experience and use it to fuel and inform their next move.
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I'm not sure I'd go back and do anything over in my life. I've definitely had my fair share of failures and moments where I wasted my time or that of other people, but if I did those moments over, I'd have missed out on so many lessons.
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If we're going to build hardware, the thing we want to do is build reading goggles, so you can do hands-free reading.
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Holding a book you're reading is kind of old-school.
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Books is our main type of content, but we include user-generated content and will include other verticals such as scientific papers, sheet music, and comic books.
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We realized the best way to monetize content was through a subscription model.
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Just as it can be addictive to be in a real world bookstore or library, it's the same on the Web.
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We see ourselves as the world's digital library. That can be a lot more than books. We do want to expand to other types of content: sheet music, magazines, user-generated content.
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Readers can read what they want and easily switch to other books, so we're seeing a lot of reading behaviors. Some verticals attract different usage than others. We can spot reading patterns.
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