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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

I started my first company in 1999 and was admittedly swept up in all of this: Magazine covers, fancy conferences, artificial valuations and easy money. Sure, we built SaaS products before the term even existed but at 31 it was hard to delineate reality from what all of the monied people around us were telling us what we were worth.

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The Parenting Of Corporate America (Or Tips On When And How To Say “No” For Project Managers)

YoungUpstarts

By Russell Harley, veteran project manager and Director at PMO. As we grew older, the no’s we heard became more important, like no, you can’t use the car, as the roads are too dangerous. This leads us into hearing the following clichés, spoken by executives, that we have all come to know and love: ?Not

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Lessons Learned: Hugh Molotsi

Startup Lessons Learned

Here, Hugh Molotsi takes us from skunkworks to large-scale success. 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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30 Entrepreneur Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

The management team of one of the companies sat down for a brainstorming session. I also inquired with a professor at a university that provided design about accepting the assignment as a practical. #6- Many think that betting is purely about feelings. Our logo uses the @ symbol which is ubiquitous in digital marketing.

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How Pertino is reinventing the future of business networking

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Almost a year ago, my partner Barry Eggers and I met with Craig Elliott and Scott Hankins to talk about their vision for a new company, Pertino. The discussion struck a chord with us. At Packeteer, they built a hardware-based appliance that was expensive and complex to manage.

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Think you’ve got a strategy to enter the Chinese market? Think twice

The Next Web

Yu graduated from Nankai University in 1999 with a bachelor’s degree in economics. Whenever I visit the US, one question mobile entrepreneurs always ask me is ‘How can my startup break into China?’. The biggest mistake most US entrepreneurs make right off the bat is in thinking of China as one market. Seeing double.

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What Can You Learn from the 4-Hour Workweek?

Both Sides of the Table

If you’re not familiar with the term it’s basically trying to help all of us who are deluged with technology to find ways to cope with the masses of information without having it ruin our lives. I think too many books are written by charlatans and have too much management jargon / double speak that I can’t stand.

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