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Now for the third and final thing you need: a cofounder, or cofounders.
The optimal startup has two or three founders, so you need one or
two cofounders. How do you find them? Can you predict what I'm going
to say next? It's the same thing: projects. You find cofounders by
working on projects with them. What you need in a cofounder is
someone who's good at what they do and that you work well with, and
the only way to judge this is to work with them on things.
How to Start Google
paulgraham.com
Senator Moynihan would not have been surprised by all this malfeasance. How could it have been otherwise? The American system of republican government was expressly designed to contain and channel all-too-human ambitions, hubris, and foibles. “Ambition must be made to counteract ambition,” James Madison wrote in Federalist 51.
An America of Secrets
thenewatlantis.com
Game #7: Playing The Victim Description: This is less of a power play, but a passive power play just like “Playing Dumb”. However, the “passivity” of this game packs just as much punch if not recognized and deflected properly. In this “power” play, the person playing the game manipulates you into feeling guilt or pity in the hope you will do what they want. The truth is that most people, as humans with a heart, are susceptible to acting out of guilt or pity for somebody else, and that appealing to this softer aspect of people is powerful in a potentially devious way.
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