CHAPTER 6
THE ENTREPRENEUR’S GUIDE
Choices, Actions, and Reactions
Some people make things happen, some people watchthings happen, some people say “What happened?”
—CASEY STENGEL
By now it should be imminently clear to you that success and “whatever” are not kindred spirits. Entrepreneurs who want to be successful are no exception. Philipp Stauffer, general partner at Fyrfly Ventures, describes his own life journey as one of hundreds of small decisions that added up to a successful career beginning with entering the green card lottery that brought him to the United States from Switzerland. Like others who work with entrepreneurs, he said there is a certain quality about them that he can recognize. As he put it:
When a bunch of kids go to the ...
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