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Jul 2020
28m 34s

Ideas are Easy, Execution is Hard: Here’...

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As every startup founder or would-be founder knows, there is an endless supply of ideas for the next great product, or the next great company. It is uncanny (but maybe not surprising in our information-at-warp-speed lives) that what may seem like an original invention is often not only occurring to some number of people in the exact same way, but at the exac ... Show More
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