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Playing Startup

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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. But I’ve witnessed more and more “playing startup” in recent months.

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Playing Startup

Agile VC

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. But I’ve witnessed more and more “playing startup” in recent months.

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Urbanization of Startups ? AGILEVC

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The kinds of places where you have to sign an NDA when you walk in the lobby… When I lived and worked in the bay area (2000-2005) virtually all the startups were down on the peninsula somewhere. New York never went through a phase as a suburban startup hub… basically just an urban boom as Silicon Alley 1.0