Your word must be your bond. If you can't be trusted, you can't play. Schoffstall also stressed never to play fast and loose with someone else's money. If I have 100 bucks in my own pocket I can do what I want with it, but when I take someone else's money there is higher standard with regards to how use it. Chatter emphasized the importance of carefully managing ego out of the equation with a pop culture reference.
Startups are exactly like that.
There's no room for ego. Be very careful of the amount of damage that can be done by large egos. Mary Bayly Skevington '79, vice president for marketing at Flow Management Technologies, summed up the entrepreneurial lifestyle. In the life of an entrepreneur, your glass is always overflowing. Diagnose Lung Diseases Michael Savic, professor of electrical, computer, and systems engineering, and his graduate student, Thrasos Axiotis, are developing computer technology that will diagnose lung disease using signal processing.