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The most important thing to make a company succeed is people. When you start out a company, you start out with nothing but people. One person alone cannot do it. Getting everything set up, getting things organized, getting a core team assembled and the systems in place takes a lot more than just one person. A group of people, a team has to come together. They have to believe in the idea and they have to execute it. These need to be people with mountains of energy, that are willing to go through anything that it takes to make the company successful. A team that will not take “No” for an answer. They have to be almost evangelical in their fervor to make something happen. And they have to be able to attract human and financial resources that allow them to execute in a very precise way against big odds. (Nimish Shah,Sentient Networks)
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Finger, M., Samwer, O. (1998). The Founders. In: America’s Most Successful Startups. Gabler Verlag, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-09252-0_6
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