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Brooklyn VC has 5 lessons founders can learn from Trump

Charlie O'Donnell says that by watching what Trump is up to, “we can learn a lot of lessons around how to handle it (or how not to, mostly.)”

Donald Trump speaking at the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Md. (Photo by Flickr user Gage Skidmore, used under a Creative Commons license)

Brooklyn Bridge Ventures founder Charlie O’Donnell has been vocal about his feelings on the election of Donald Trump. But disdain need not be an end in itself, and there are lessons to be learned from how the president-elect is moving toward his new role as Commander-in-Chief. Being President is not so different from being a CEO and being a CEO is something O’Donnell knows about.
On Monday, O’Donnell published a piece on his personal site entitled Five Lessons Founders Can Learn from Donald Trump. Here they are:
1) Get to work.
2) Hire people who create confidence, not the people you already happen to know.
3) Stay positive.
4) Being a CEO isn’t that glamorous.
5) Don’t surround yourself with “Yes” people.
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