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Time is the Enemy of All Deals

Both Sides of the Table

We moved into the legal process and final due diligence in January and February of 2000. When Salesforce.com decided to buy my company in December 2006 I dropped everything and focused religiously on closure. Push hard to set up the technical reviews, the due diligence meetings, the reference calls – whatever.

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

blog.expensify.com

I was at a startup AND I developed an evented I/O server with pluggable protocol handlers AND it was capable of handling the c10k problem AND I did this back in 2006 with C# on.NET 2.0 there are start ups who are legitimately using.net because they don’t need to look directly into the tcp/ip stack. Purchase IP from the vendors.

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