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Revisiting Paul Graham’s “High Resolution” Financing

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Paul Graham’s assertion that “any startup founder can tell you the most common question they hear from investors is not about the founders or the product, but “who else is investing?&# Either would be fine with startups, so long as they can easily change their valuation. When I’m in, I’m in. I chuckled.

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Startup Founders Should Flip Burgers

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This can often happen when there is a good product built but no real customer adoption yet. We hired people to run the UK and Germany. We built 4 products simultaneously with no market feedback. We had 6 developers, 1 head of product management, 1 QA in India and me. This is what happened to me. We raised just $500k.

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The Case For & Against Cryptocurrencies (for those tired of all the noise)

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Of course our great technology industry did itself rise on the back of infrastructure created by telecommunications & cable infrastructure as well as decades of media production. In essence users like you probably used many of these products without complete awareness that your computer became a node and was being used to transmit files.