Whose Life are You Going to Change?

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Post by bjonathan » Fri, Dec 03, 2010, 1:42 PM UTC

Whose Life are You Going to Change?
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Re: Whose Life are You Going to Change?

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Post by Yesware » Fri, Dec 03, 2010, 4:29 PM UTC

Entrepreneurs are great at innovating to improve business practices. In this post, Mark challenges us to improve lives too. Highly recommended.

Re: Whose Life are You Going to Change?

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Post by MattMcLean » Fri, Dec 03, 2010, 4:39 PM UTC

Thanks Mark. I needed that today.

Re: Whose Life are You Going to Change?

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Post by matevans » Fri, Dec 03, 2010, 4:42 PM UTC

great post for a friday, actually great post for any day. I hope to meet a Cory, or even become one in the future :)

Re: Whose Life are You Going to Change?

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Post by jaredmck » Fri, Dec 03, 2010, 4:45 PM UTC

This is a great post from Mark, who is consistently bringing great stuff on the blog- his stuff is a must read for anyone interested in the space.

Inspiring stuff- thanks, Mark!

Re: Whose Life are You Going to Change?

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Post by claylo » Fri, Dec 03, 2010, 4:52 PM UTC

Great post. The sort of thing to re-read once a month. Thanks, Mark!

Re: Whose Life are You Going to Change?

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Post by mednik » Fri, Dec 03, 2010, 4:54 PM UTC

Really personal, deep post. It's awesome how studying entrepreneurship and VC is really about mentoring and life.

Re: Whose Life are You Going to Change?

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Post by asmithmd1 » Fri, Dec 03, 2010, 5:33 PM UTC

Now THAT is not taking no for an answer -- he is talking to a senior person in the company he works for:

“I’m really sorry, Mark. I wish I could help you.”

“But you can. You have the power to change my life forever. I want to know what it’s going to take to get you to say ‘yes’ because that’s why I flew to Chicago. I came here for this 30 minute moment.”

Silence. Stupefied silence.

“Cory, what’s it going to take?”

Silence. I didn’t speak again. I stared into his eyes.

Cory: “Aargh.” Sigh. ”Errrgh.”

“Oh, OK. Fine.

Re: Whose Life are You Going to Change?

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Post by strick » Fri, Dec 03, 2010, 5:33 PM UTC

If you like this post, you will probably love The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch: http://www.amazon.com/Last-Lecture-Randy-Pausch/dp/140132325...

Pausch's book also carries the message that you can be persistent and obtain anything you want. But I really like Suster's stories of paying it forward to others.

Re: Whose Life are You Going to Change?

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Post by MarkLanday » Fri, Dec 03, 2010, 6:32 PM UTC

Mark, Great post. We shall all try to give back, not just during the holiday season, though as a life code. Happy Holidays!

Mark J. Landay