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Startup Founders Should Flip Burgers

Both Sides of the Table

M y company had raised a seed round of capital in late 1999 even before either of us were full time in the company (ominous side note: on the way to pitch our seed investor, Delta Partners, a man walking right in front of me died of a massive heart attack making me late to the meeting. He was to head up UK operations.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: New Assessment Tool For Entrepreneurs

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Daniel expects SharePoint's cloud based solution provider eco-system to develop over the next few years. He wants to provide both a branded app store and white-labeled stores for developers to put on their respective sites. I asked him to review the TrueCFO project in my Vision India 2020 book. He currently has a 1999 strategy.

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Former Head of Microsoft Israel Dreams of Billion Dollar Israeli Startups

VC Cafe

Moshe Lichtman, the man once in charge of all of Microsoft’s technology development in Israel, says that the time has come to build a billion dollar Israeli company. Moshe joined Microsoft in 1991 as a product manager after a career as a software developer. By Ben Bakhshi. In this post I break down an article by TheMarker.co.il

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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

thebarefootvc

This was the year that the promise of technology to truly change the world and empower individuals (the reason I entered the tech world in 1994) reached global scale. The Power of the Individual: This was the year that the individual, amplified by technology platforms, became empowered to rise against oppressions both large and small.

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The Long-Term Value of Loyalty

Both Sides of the Table

I was paid less in salary in 2004 than I was paid at the job I quit in 1999 (a job I had held 8+ years). I learned how to integrate customers into our product development process. But in these years I learned how to sell software – necessity is the mother of all invention. million, then $5.9m, $7.7m

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Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

It makes you appreciate that the Silicon Valley technology-centric culture-bubble has little to do with the majority of Americans.) I was living the dream – working 80 hour weeks and all the technology I could drink with a fire hose.) I packed up my life in Michigan and spent five days driving to California to start work.

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A Glimpse: My American Dream

thebarefootvc

from a trip to India and spoke of places with pigs and cows roaming around and no plumbing. But I did write a letter to Indira Gandhi, then prime minister of India, in 1982 before my first trip there. And how much of it was based on luck, and how I could easily have been that child in an orphanage in India.