Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 27, 2022

And without missing a beat, he said Jeff Bezos, because Jay Bezos was not only a visionary, but he was also creative and invented so many mechanisms that startups and managers and leaders use today. Think of it as a mantra in 1998, in a second shareholder letter, or 1999 Yeah. (20:43): So plus John, look, we're storytellers.

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Seeing Both Sides

MAY 26, 2009

Amid the hoopla a few weeks ago at the annual NVCA meeting, where the focus was rightly on improving liquidity, it was barely noticed that a new chairman was elected – Polaris co-founder and managing general partner Terry McGuire, one of the leading life sciences investors in the industry. 

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

During the Internet Bubble there were a number of startups founded by business people who then wentlooking for hackers to create their product for them. The middle managers we talked to at catalog companies saw the Web not as an opportunity, but assomething that meant more work for them. Back in 1998 our CFOtried to talk me into it.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 22, 2019

It even penciled for Google in 1998, and it still worked well enough that Facebook chose to establish its headquarters in Palo Alto, California, in 2004. These people may be permanent employees, or they may work on a project-by-project basis, but they are managed very much as if they’re working right alongside you.

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