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- To be a creative professional, you need to be proactive in trying to get your work out there
- You can’t rely on the quality of the work alone
- “Creativity is a collaborative exercise between the creator and the audience”
- People are BUSY
- “They’re not sitting around dreaming up new product ideas that they hope someone else builds. You have to invent them and BRING IT TO THEM.”
- As an artist, aim to get yourself into the scene/mix
- The scene = the collision space (things HAPPEN when you’re in the scene)
- You have a much, much better chance of getting a startup funded by a venture capitalist with some sort of warm referral
- Cold pitches almost never work
- Instead of following your passion, focus on the area in which you can make a contribution
- Realize that most of your ideas about how the world works are probably wrong
- Aim to have strong views, weakly held