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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. i’ll go into this is later posts. also, just to clarify, the first idea we worked on that we called “meebo&# back in 2003 was my idea.

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The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed?

pandodaily.com

But at a macro level, widespread failure this early is far less painful than if it came at later stages. Zucker, a veteran news executive, will succeed Jim Walton, who has had the job since 2003. . “There are so many companies in Silicon Valley that have raised $30 million and done absolutely nothing with it.”