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How to Miss By a Mile: An Alternative Look at Uber’s Potential Market Size

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In other words, the arrival of a product or service like Uber will have zero impact on the overall market size of the car-for-hire transportation market. Uber initially worked well primarily within the San Francisco city limits. It now has high liquidity from South San Jose to Napa. Coverage density.

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Want to Know How First Round Capital was Started?

Both Sides of the Table

Infonautics went public in 1996 and Half.com was sold to eBay in 2000. million and opened another office in San Francisco. Management should communicate how the board can help - strategy, markets, key hires, introductions. Prior to First Round Capital, Howard had invested in two of Josh’s companies Infonautics Corp.

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From Airbnb to TaskRabbit to Zimride, sharing is becoming big business

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Adam Hertz, a cable company executive in San Francisco , and his wife, Joan, have enthusiastically embraced the movement. TaskRabbit has (people) making over $5,000 a month in San Francisco," says Craig Shapiro, founder of Collaborative Fund, a venture-capital fund specializing in sharing sites. Thats real money."

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Lessons Learned: A new version of the Joel Test (draft)

Startup Lessons Learned

He wrote it in 2000, and as far as I know has never updated it. Joel is focused on the fact that in many environments, programmers are considered "just the hired help" akin to manual labor, and not treated properly. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Do programmers have quiet working conditions? Bring your questions.

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Why Startups Should Raise Money at the Top End of Normal

Both Sides of the Table

I’ve decided to take all of my private conversations and subjective points-of-view on the topic and make them public in a keynote speech at the Founder Showcase in San Francisco on June 15th. It was early 2000. And the CEO they would hire to come in and run the business when you go would always be a mercenary.

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The two reasons early stage investors should be active investors

The Equity Kicker

That’s still true in less developed parts of the world, but in San Francisco and increasingly in London there are multiple sources of venture capital working very hard to find good investments and entrepreneurs sitting on quality opportunities have lots of options.

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One More Time: No NDAs

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If someone hired you, would you have your lawyer look over the NDA? Expo San Francisco 2010 ) and a whole lot of them are very well positioned. These are obvious in retrospect, but some things you have to learn the hard way. dan.sanderson. | May 8, 2010 12:38 PM. hashimwarren. | May 9, 2010 1:10 AM. Parley-vous "A-list"?).

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