What You Need to Succeed. Treat people right and they will eat nails for you, and other lessons I learned building Staples into a giant company.

"The child is father to the man," the saying goes. Just so, the start-up is father to the large successful company. Now that I’m a venture capitalist, helping entrepreneurs build into their small frames the bones of billion-dollar corporations has become my mission.

By: Thomas Stemberg

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