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How to Start a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

March 2005 (This essay is derived from a talk at the Harvard ComputerSociety.) You make elaborate plans for a product, hire a team of engineers to develop it (people who do this tend to use the term "engineer" for hackers), and then find after a year that youve spent two milliondollars to develop something no one wants.

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Find Innovation 5 Times A Day

YoungUpstarts

At University, I had similar ventures and started a software company with a professor to teach stock traders virtually how to trade. More and more, my obsession and appreciation for voice over IP (VoIP) and hosted PBX grew. Through this journey, I created a hosted PBX system to run our communications systems.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

This literally the dumbest, most ignorant piece that I’ve ever read about software development and/or hiring programmers. I am the VP of Engineering at a cutting-edge startup that sells software built on the.NET platform. In every population there are some that are both brilliant and malicious. Sjoerd Franken.

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