5 Paul Graham Quotes To Make You Relentlessly Resourceful

At a time where everybody seems to have an idea and create their own business be starting their own business It has never been easier to start your own business, and new companies seem to be flourishing and are growing with the help of investment to greater heights. It's easy to run a company with close friends, and as businesses grow and achieve it leads to growth in staff, growth in the profile of the company and growth in the finances of the company. Paul Graham, as co-founder of the Y Combinator and essayist, is certainly one of the current day thought leaders when it comes to starting startups.

1. I finally got being a good startup founder down to two words: relentlessly resourceful

Roger Reuver / Via Flickr: reuver

2. A good manager can sometimes redefine a problem as a more interesting one

Kevin Dooley / Via Flickr: pagedooley

3. A manager must be the most demanding user of a company's products

Mark Hunter / Via Flickr: toolstop

4. People will pay for information they think they can make money from

401(K) 2012 / Via Flickr: 68751915@N05

5. Get yourself inserted directly into the stories

Maryland GovPics / Via Flickr: mdgovpics

"I spent years hunting such 'press hits.' Our startup spent its entire marketing budget on PR: at a time when we were assembling our own computers to save money, we were paying a PR firm $16,000 a month. And they were worth it. PR is the news equivalent of search engine optimization; instead of buying ads, which readers ignore, you get yourself inserted directly into the stories"

Professor Claretta Pam's Introduction to Business introduces the student to the contemporary business world, the business of managing people in organizations, the principles of marketing, managing information, and financial issues. Starts August 18th