Quote of the Day Aug 15, 2007

“Start-ups are like medieval monasteries: always convinced that paradise is just ahead or that things only recently got worse. If you can begin to enjoy the process of building a start-up rather than the outcome, you’ll be a better leader.”
— “Glenn Kelman”:http://redfin.com/stingray/do/about-management, CEO of Redfin, in an overlooked ‘Quote of the Week’ on “Marc Andreessen’s blog”:http://blog.pmarca.com/quote_of_the_week/index.html.
*Founders’ Lesson #16: Leadership is what you do while you’re making other plans.*

Glenn is a founder, too, of Plumtree Software, and we suggest you “his post”:http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2007/08/on-the-other-ha.html on why it’s OK if you find being a founder to be hard work.

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