47 Losing My Virginity: How I Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way — transcript highlights
Founders · David Senra · 2018-11-19
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Product
“So this is smart ways to get initial traction when you're building a new product.”
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Focus
“Most of them rejected the idea of paying for advertising in an unpublished magazine, but gradually I began to find ways of…”
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People
“He-- Again, going back, he's in a group of basically counterculture socialists, um, not the people...”
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Persistence
“But I was too young to con-contemplate failure." So embedded in that paragraph, he starts his first business at 15 years old.”
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Capital
“Of course, we needed money to survive, but we saw it much more as a creative enterprise than a money-making one." So…”
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