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Book: The Startup Playbook

Feld Thoughts

If you are working on your first startup, this is the book for you. Hopefully, the Foreword I wrote reflects my belief in the quality and importance of this book. Over 13,000 people bought the book, it’s a 4.8-star star review book on Amazon (with 100 reviews), and it sold out.

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Lessons Learned: Hugh Molotsi

Startup Lessons Learned

One of the highlights of my time at Intuit was being part of a skunkworks team in 1999 that developed Intuit’s first payment service, the QuickBooks Merchant Account Service. I was generously rewarded the Intuit Founders Award in 2011 for helping get it started.

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The Great Internet Stock Correction of 1997, or 1999, or …

Feld Thoughts

In 1999 we filed an S-1 to take Sage Networks public. I was a co-founder and co-chairman. I spent three weeks on a road show with our president and CFO building the book. Two days before we were supposed to price, the book was 10x oversubscribed and our $9 – $11 price looked like it could move up meaningfully.

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The Making of DigitalMarketer With Founder Ryan Deiss

Duct Tape Marketing

The Making of DigitalMarketer With Founder Ryan Deiss written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Ryan is also the founder and host of the Traffic & Conversion Summit, the largest digital marketing conversion conference in North America. I’ve got a free book for you. Marketing Podcast with Ryan Deiss.

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The Very First Startup Founder You Need to Invest in is You

Both Sides of the Table

This week I wrote about obsessive and competitive founders and how this forms the basis of what I look for when I invest. And that’s what differentiates founders and early employees. Why will people invest 5x the money to get book smart and struggle so much to take a big salary cut to get real life experience? “Look.

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One Book Every Entrepreneur and VC Should Own

Both Sides of the Table

When I first started as a startup CEO in 1999 there were no guides on raising venture capital. Founders don’t often think about “primary&# stock vs, “fully diluted&# stock in terms of voting rights. Every startup needs the knowledge in this book. This article originally ran on TechCrunch. Drag along rights?

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Steven Blank Kills It at Greycroft CEO Summit

Both Sides of the Table

With all the external presenters, the ones I enjoyed the most were Dan Senor who wrote the book Startup Nation (an examination of the Israeli technology scene). I also got the chance to hear from and meet the founder of About.com – Scott Kurnit – who gave a lively talk that challenged much startup conventional wisdom.

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