Five years ago, a few months before I officially raised seed funding and turned GigaOM, a blog into GigaOM, a start-up, a mentor of mine cautioned me of the differences between raising capital and starting a business and actually building a business. Why are you starting this business? Is it money? Is it fame? Or is it something more, he asked.
I told him that I fundamentally believed that the world of information — how it is created, distributed and consumed — was going to change forever and I wanted to be part of that shift and build a fundamentally new kind of information (not media) company. His parting advice before I embarked on the entrepreneurial journey: it always takes much longer to build a business.
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