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MARCH 29, 2016

Tracking this metric allows entrepreneurs to identify their most effective applicant sources for certain types of positions. After receiving 50 responses from the college website, 500 from the developer-focused job board, and 2000 from the national job board, you find two candidates worth interviewing from each source.

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JANUARY 20, 2015

But during the year 2000, we went through three different CEOs, fraud nearly killed the company, our revenue was negligible and unproven, and at our worst point, the company was burning well over $10 million a month — A MONTH! We went public in 2002 and eBay bought the company later that year for over $1.5

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JUNE 17, 2015

My first startup job was as an early employee at PayPal, where I took a job at the end of ‘1999 and started a few months later in 2000. But I think it’s important to discuss, particularly given today’s heady environment for startups. I worked, usually at the office not remotely, at least part of every weekend for the first year or so.

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