尽管最成功的创业者通常都是好人,但他们眼睛里似乎都闪烁着海盗般的光芒。
Though the most successful founders are usually good people, they tend to have a piratical gleam in their eye.
下面这个例子是塞内·德尔的亲身经历:作为一家成功公司的创始人,他经常收到创业者的来信,向他征求意见。
An example from his own experience: As the founder of a successful company, Cenedella says he hears from lots of entrepreneurs looking to pick his brain.
当创业者使用这三种成功的关键因素,他们将迎来一个良好的开端。
When entrepreneurs use all three of the keys to success in their businesses, they are off to a great start.
事实上,第一次创业越成功,创业者就越容易在第二次创业中出现所谓“二次创业综合症”的典型情况。
In fact, the more successful the original startup, the more likely it is that the entrepreneur develops an acute case of Second startup Syndrome.
但中国本土创业者意识到,简单的复制不足以确保成功。
But local entrepreneurs realise that simple replication is hardly enough to guarantee success.
我们的经验模型表明,前一次取得成功(即开创公司并上市)的创业者有30%的机会再次创业成功。
Our empirical model indicates that entrepreneurs who succeeded in a prior venture (i.e., started a company that went public) have a 30% chance of succeeding in their next venture.
许多创业公司失败,是因为创业者没有对成功所必需的、破天荒的工作时间做好思想准备。
Many startups fail because the founders were not mentally prepared to work the ridiculous hours necessary to make a business succeed.
如果这名经理真从企业中受益匪浅,并为企业的成功做出了贡献(混日子的当然不算),那么他(她)绝对是第一流的初次创业者。
If the manager really has learned from the venture and contributed to its success (being along for the ride does not count), she or he is the best kind of first-time entrepreneur.
五年前,我可能会说,成功主要得靠技能与努力;然而,过去五年里我接触过无数聪慧且勤奋的创业者,他们均未能突出重围。
Five years ago, I would have said success was mostly skill and effort, but in the past five years I have met countless bright hard working entrepreneurs who didn't get the right break.
他们中的许多人本身就是成功的创业者。
在美国,最成功的创业者各有千秋。
In the United States, the most successful entrepreneurs look different.
虽然YC认为成立初创公司的成本很低,但我们从来没想过创业者仅仅依靠YC的资助就可以成功。
Although YC is based on the idea of it being cheap to start a startup, we never anticipated that founders would grow successful startups on nothing more than YC funding.
二次创业综合症往往发生于这种情况--已经获取过成功的创业者,希望在第一次“起飞”的地方再次取得成功。
Second Startup Syndrome occurs when an entrepreneur wants to pick up in her second startup right where her first startup left off.
该公司在会计和管理领域提供小公司培训和咨询服务,帮助创业者取得成功。
Pam Newman is president of RPPC Inc., which helps entrepreneurs succeed in their businesses through small-business training and consulting services in the areas of accounting and management.
该创业者向投资者表示,上两年学之后他会让企业成功。
The entrepreneur assured the investor that he would be better situated to make the business a success after the two years of school.
也许有些创业者会成功,但多数会失败。
但是由于他有如此的成功,贝尼奥夫的这本新书总会让那些创业者脑海里冒出一个问题-“为什么不试试呢?”
But given Mr Benioff's success, the question this book should raise in the mind of every aspiring entrepreneur is "Why not?"
短短的6年后,马克·扎克伯格在facebook上交了5亿个朋友,并成为有史以来最年轻的亿万富翁。然而,成功却给这位创业者带来了各种个人困扰甚至法律上的麻烦。
A mere six years and 500 million friends later, Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in history... but for this entrepreneur, success leads to both personal and legal complications.
因此超过18000名的创业者参与了评选,但是只有不到400人成功过关。
So far over 18, 000 entrepreneurs have been screened but fewer than 400 have been chosen.
因此超过18000名的创业者参与了评选,但是只有不到400人成功过关。
So far over 18,000 entrepreneurs have been screened but fewer than 400 have been chosen.
历史上有很多曾经成功的创业者在涉足一个他们不了解的市场后失败的例子。
History is littered with previously successful entrepreneurs who failed because they went after a market they did not understand.
许多创业者成功地带领他们的企业渡过了启动阶段,接下来他们面临的将是资金紧缺。
Many entrepreneurs successfully bootstrap their ventures through the startup phase, only to be stymied by the need for additional capital.
即使这些20多岁的年轻人成功了,现实却是,绝大多数创业者,不论年龄多大,都与成功无缘。
Even if these 20-somethings pulled it off, the reality is a vast majority of entrepreneurs, of any age, don't succeed.
第四个误解是,创业者要取得成功必须创造出改变世界的产品。
The fourth myth is that to succeed, entrepreneurs must produce some world-changing new product.
相形之下,初次创业者的成功机会只有18%,而前一次失败的创业者,成功机会是20%。
By contrast, first-time entrepreneurs have only an 18% chance of succeeding and entrepreneurs who previously failed have a 20% chance of succeeding.
对于其中许多创业者而言,成功并非一蹴而就的。
For many of these entrepreneurs, success didn't happen overnight. Mr.
对于其中许多创业者而言,成功并非一蹴而就的。
For many of these entrepreneurs, success didn't happen overnight.
然而,几年后,这家公司开始逐渐成功,创业者却告诉投资者说,这已不是他原来资助的公司。
However, a couple years later when the same company started thriving, the entrepreneur informed the investor that it was not the company he had backed.
然而,几年后,这家公司开始逐渐成功,创业者却告诉投资者说,这已不是他原来资助的公司。
However, a couple years later when the same company started thriving, the entrepreneur informed the investor that it was not the company he had backed.
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