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Be Careful not to be Penny Wise, Pound Foolish

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.&# I took it to mean, “making decisions with small amounts of money (pennies) that end up making bad sense for affecting larger amounts of money (pounds, as in Great British Pounds).&# I thought of it as people who cut corners on small costs but paid dearly in terms of lost productivity on expensive staff. I Love Scrappy.

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Don’t drink your own Kool-Aid (surviving TC50)

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We had scrambled to get a product to market, built our first website, rapidly hired a technology team, raised our seed round of capital ($1.5 We started building 4 products so that our end-to-end, supply-chain services would be complete (MVP? Jacques Chirac , the president of France was the keynote speaker. We closed a $16.5

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

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First, it had to evoke the product use case in some way. While the service launched primarily directed at the wedding industry other print products are in soon coming online. The year was 2001. This was 2001, when almost nobody was on the Web. On July 11, 2001, I had my Last Bad Day. Photo Credit: Jessi Honard.

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Survivors

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I worked with a founder who advocated for a product pivot and then shut it down right after launch because customers didn’t immediately sign up. I saw this in 2001-2003 and in 2008-2010. I lived and worked in England, France, Italy and Japan and had worked extensively in Germany. So most people don’t try.

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The Yo-Yo Life of a Tech Entrepreneur – A Cautionary Tale

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We built 4 products simultaneously to compete with the perceived need to offer end-to-end solutions like our US counterparts. I stayed up late every night after a day of meetings doing email until 3am so that I didn’t feel out of touch with our product and sales pipelines. At least not externally. It became a social activity.

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

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Andreessen Horowitz is telling entrepreneurs it prefers situations where the founders have controlling stakes, reckoning that theyll be better able to resist outside distraction and focus on making great products. Agence France-Presse/Getty Images. million products as of June, and this year expects to do $140 million in sales.

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Land of Milk, Honey and Wine: Get Familiar with Wine Funds and Israeli Wineries

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The wine funds research the space, study the weather, soil conditions and critics trends and essentially bet on future production of a winery. We regard each of our wine labels as reflecting a part of an entire enterprise that strives for and ultimately achieves product perfection. Viognier and the exotic GewĂĽrztraminer.