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How Open Should a Startup CEO be with Staff?

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In the startup journey if you have success in your early product launches, fund raising and PR you’re likely to get “inbound interest” from likely acquirers. It’s 2003 and VCs aren’t exactly lining up to fund startup businesses. I’d like to give you a few examples that are more nuanced: 1.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

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also, just to clarify, the first idea we worked on that we called “meebo&# back in 2003 was my idea. So frequently embarrassing failures are masked by spinning PR or fudging numbers to give the illusion of success. As Seth said, the first meebo idea he came up with was in 2003. get to know each other first, etc.