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Chapter One – True Believers

1. Dave McClure, Master of 500 Hats. http://500hats.typepad.com.
2. Dan Bricklin, “Natural-born Entrepreneur,” Harvard Business Re-

view 79, no. 8 (September 2001): 54.
3. Pino G. Audia and Christopher I. Rider, “A Garage and an Idea:

What More Does an Entrepreneur Need?” California Management
Review 48, no. 1 (Fall 2005): 7.
4. David Whyte, The Heart Aroused: Poetry and Preservation of the Soul
in Corporate America (New York: Doubleday, 1994), 78.
5. J.C. Faulkner’s trusting relationship with Doug Crisp paid addi-
tional dividends for his startup business. A few months after J.C.
left First Union to launch Decision One Mortgage, Doug Crisp
decided to leave his senior executive role with the bank to join
Decision One’s management team. As director of operations,
Doug played a major role in building and coordinating the talent,
systems, and processes necessary to support the company’s rapid
growth.
6. Sam Harris, Sameer A. Sheth, and Mark S. Cohen, “Functional
Neuroimaging of Belief, Disbelief, and Uncertainty,” Annals of
Neurology 63, no. 2 (February 2008): 141-147.
7. Andrew Newberg and Mark Robert Waldman, “Nuns, Buddhists,
and the Reality of Spiritual Beliefs,” in Why We Believe What We
Believe: Uncovering Our Biological Need for Meaning, Spirituality, and
Truth (New York: Free Press, 2006), 175.

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