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Entrepreneurship is a game of high stakes. Few entrepreneurs actually reach the top, but for those who do, the rewards are huge. You have to be full time. Doing it part time, even full time, won’t cut it. So you’ve got to be hustling all the time. Bryan McCaw, Founder of WineAlign, recently described it to me as waking up at 3am thinking about how you can improve your company to beat your competitors. Then not being able to sleep until you’ve made that improvement. If you aren’t doing that your competitors probably are and you won’t make it.

Entrepreneurs need to always be hustling 24/7.

At the inaugural SociaLIGHT conference last Saturday, Kunal Gupta of Polar Mobile spoke to a room packed with entrepreneurs, “Do you know what a CEO is?” Everyone in the audience nodded, thinking they knew. “It isn’t a Chief Executive Officer, it’s a Chief Everything Officer.” Gupta also spoke about he grew Polar Mobile to a company which has launched over 1200 apps and hit 10 million app downloads. With most of his media clients being in New York City, he would initially fly once every two weeks. Then every week. Then a couple times a week. Eventually he ended up buying a place in Manhattan.

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