• Kathryn Minshew, the founder of The Muse job site, says investors told her ‘no’ 148 times before the first one agreed to invest.
• Huffington’s wellness startup Thrive has a rule that nobody should interview a job candidate while they’re tired!
• Chinese parents’ dissatisfaction ...

“Whether your staff is 70,000 or only seven, a leader needs two things to create a strong unified team: an elevated mission and everyday human contact.”

• The best leaders develop talent from within rather than just hiring expensive stars. If you hire people at senior positions, you are a failure as a leader.
• If you’re a good entrepreneur you can assume that your instincts are right 95% of the time and your ideas might...

How do you get the idea for a business and then lead it to success?

• Sometimes when an investor tells a startup founder “no,” it’s a positive sign for the business. When an idea is truly big and transformative, it can draw a polarized reaction or a “squirmy no.”
• The best businesses can emerge from moments of desperation.