This Is The Best Description Of Why Technology Companies Are Exciting And Uplifting

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Ben Horowitz

Want to start 2014 feeling optimistic?

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Then go read venture capitalist Ben Horowitz's post on "Can-do versus Can't-do" cultures.

The post is all about ignoring skeptics and plowing ahead with your ideas, even if they seem outlandish to some.

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In the post, Horowitz has the best explanation of what a technology startup represents:

The word technology means "a better way of doing things." This is easy to say, but extremely difficult to do. Making a better way of storing information, a better currency, or a better way of making friends means improving on thousands of years of human experience and is therefore extraordinarily difficult.

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At some level, it would seem logically impossible that anybody could ever improve anything. I mean, if nobody from Bible days until 2014 has thought of it, what makes you think you are so smart? From a psychological standpoint, in order to achieve a great breakthrough, you must be able to suspend disbelief indefinitely. The technology startup world is where brilliant people come to imagine the impossible.

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