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Dallas Startup Happy Hour Tomorrow

The Startup Lawyer

She co-founded an aircraft scheduling software company in 1998 that ended in a profitable exit. True to her entrepreneurial roots, she left to follow her passion for nutrition by opening a specialty foods retail store, while simultaneously consulting with numerous Dallas-based startups on strategic planning and finance.

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Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard

rob.by

It means they have to deal with finances and customers and investors and other things that aren’t what they love to do, which is building software. Finance (1). What makes software engineers different in the startup world is that they have the requisite skills to hack together an idea on their own if they so choose. Thoughts on.

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Uber Needs to Transition from “Pirate” to “Navy”

Reid Hoffman

A present-day example of a field where there are both ethical and criminal pirates is the rapid development of cryptocurrencies like BitCoin, and the development of Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) as a financing tool. The startups that are creating currencies and holding ICOs are operating in a grey area, and are likely breaking rules.