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Reid Hoffman of LinkedIn and Greylock fame shares startup tips

February 6, 2014 /

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"Find an idea and a team you’re passionate about, so if it fails, it’ll still be a good experience."

Startups have made Reid Hoffman very rich and fairly famous. And, he told a roomful of aspiring entrepreneurs this week, there’s nothing wrong with that.

But Hoffman — an early PayPal employee and Facebook investor who later founded LinkedIn — made clear that a yen for wealth or fame alone won’t carry an entrepreneur through what he called the inevitable "valley of shadows" every fledgling company encounters at some point.

By Peter Delevett

Full Story: http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_25070857/reid-hoffman-linkedin-and-greylock-fame-shares-startup

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