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Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard

rob.by

It means they have to deal with finances and customers and investors and other things that aren’t what they love to do, which is building software. They can make good money consulting or working as an employee of another company. But software engineers also pay a price for working by themselves. I refused and he left.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

But as any programmer will tell you (I’m one), any lucrative contract or full time job you can get, especially these days, will usually leave you so burnt out by the end of the day that the last thing you will want to do is sit down and bang out more code. This happens a lot. Better still, write your own post :) Ron Amen.

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COVID-19 – Accelerating The Destruction Of Corporate Arrogance

YoungUpstarts

I’ve been working with large retailers and fashion brands since 2006, and I recognized almost immediately that this industry would get disrupted sooner than later. Unfortunately, we couldn’t help most of those customers because they were too small and manufacturing as we knew it was set up to only support large corporations.

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Essential Startup Funding Tips from 8 Seasoned Investors

mashable.com

In 2006, Kapor founded Foxmarks, a popular Firefox Firefox add-on later renamed Xmarks Xmarks. Paige Craig: Adrenaline-junkie Paige Craig is a former marine and intelligence consultant who’s now a prolific angel investor and startup advisor based out of Los Angeles. Kapor Capital’s expansive portfolio includes Bit.ly

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

blog.expensify.com

Do a curl (or your.NET equivalent) on each domain, and see how many are running a Windows server: I think you’ll find the fraction very small. If you want to serve enterprise customers,NET is one of the best ways to do that and do it well. There have been several comments regarding your post over at HackerNews.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #18: The strength of natural network effects

Austin Startup

I believe the single best report released from Bazaarvoice to describe this network effect with hard data is The Conversation Index, Vol. This, by the way, isn’t very different from how the term social commerce became muddled after Bazaarvoice first started promoting it in 2006 to describe what we do?—?unfortunately,

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Out of the Crisis #27: Eren Bali of Carbon Health on public health, COVID vaccinations, and working as a unified society to solve problems

Startup Lessons Learned

In this conversation Eren and I talked about his journey from a small town in Turkey to founding the education startup Udemy, also quite successful, to Carbon Health and eventually Carbon Health's vaccination efforts. Here's my conversation with Eren Bali. His number one takeaway is one we have heard again and again.