"It’s not about how many times you get knocked down; it’s about how many times you get back up." - Richard Tait, co-creator of Cranium

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"In a startup, there are many situations where you just don’t know what you’re supposed to do because you’ve never seen it before. But it’s also really exciting because you get experience you may never get in a traditional job." - Kevin Yang, EAT Club

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"We’re building a social gifting framework that allows me to get a gift for you by crowdsourcing the creativity of our common friends." - Dana Underwood, The Muse Factory

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"One of the most helpful things in figuring out what you want to do is to actually just start the job search process." - Gemmy Tsai, OpenTable

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