{"id":2266,"date":"2011-06-08T00:09:06","date_gmt":"2011-06-08T00:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/?p=2266"},"modified":"2011-06-08T00:09:06","modified_gmt":"2011-06-08T00:09:06","slug":"things-i-learned-at-cutc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/?p=2266","title":{"rendered":"Things I learned at CUTC"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. Just do it.<\/li>\n
  2. To succeed you must fail.<\/li>\n
  3. The internet allows start-ups to get going without much capitol.<\/li>\n
  4. Incubators are where it\u2019s at.<\/li>\n
  5. Persistence is crucial.<\/li>\n
  6. The businesses on top made it there at night and on weekends.<\/li>\n
  7. Luck is all about perspective.<\/li>\n
  8. If you don\u2019t do it, someone else will, and they will beat you.<\/li>\n
  9. You learn best when surrounded by people smarter than you.<\/li>\n
  10. Networking is most effective when you\u2019re genuine and look for common ground.<\/li>\n
  11. \u201cTell me more\u201d will save you when you\u2019re lost in a conversation.<\/li>\n
  12. The start-up lifestyle is a lot less glamorous then you may think.<\/li>\n
  13. Reach out to people you want to connect with, regardless of their title.<\/li>\n
  14. New technology may enable old ideas to become plausible.<\/li>\n
  15. Small companies are the bomb.<\/li>\n
  16. Look for a career where you\u2019re not only making money and good at what you do, but you\u2019re passionate about what you do, and you\u2019re changing the world.<\/li>\n
  17. CTFW \u2013 Change The Fucking World<\/li>\n
  18. We must place are bets on the crazy people, the unreasonable people, the mad people. The incremental steps that are being taken towards the big issues such as poverty, green energy, population growth, scarcity of resources and global warming don\u2019t have enough impact to fix problems of this magnitude. We need to take chances on brilliant, revolutionary ideas, regardless of how impossible they seem, because that will give us the best chance and progress.<\/li>\n
  19. The way we think about failure can be extraordinarily disabling \u2013 give yourself incentives to fail and embrace failure on the path to success.<\/li>\n
  20. Start now, what\u2019s the point of waiting?<\/li>\n
  21. If you aren\u2019t maximizing your productivity, you\u2019re being lazy. Busy work is a form of laziness.<\/li>\n
  22. 9-5 jobs and flex hours are becoming a thing of the past, the new model is results based only – work when you need to work,\u00a0 <\/span>where you want to work, and only spend time on things that relate to your result.<\/li>\n
  23. Cell phone banking is starting to have a huge positive effect on Africa.<\/li>\n
  24. Incremental product development produces the most value for your time and money.<\/li>\n
  25. Predictions based on trends of the past can be interesting, but are still usually wrong.<\/li>\n
  26. Multitasking is a myth.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Just do it. To succeed you must fail. The internet allows start-ups to get going without much capitol. Incubators are where it\u2019s at. Persistence is crucial. The businesses on top made it there at night and on weekends. Luck is all about perspective. If you don\u2019t do it, someone else will, and they will beat […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1982,1604,1522,1953,1992,1897,1984,1988,1990,1989,560,1986,1991,1736,1987,1326,1985,401,1983],"class_list":["post-2266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-canadian","tag-conference","tag-connections","tag-cutc","tag-development","tag-entrepeneur","tag-failure","tag-just-do-it","tag-lazy","tag-learnning","tag-lists","tag-luck","tag-multitasking","tag-networking","tag-persistance","tag-smart","tag-start-up","tag-technology","tag-undergraduate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}