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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Cojones (7/11)

Both Sides of the Table

If your idea is so amazing that it warrants my hard-earned angel money or the money of my LP investors from our fund then why should I take a risk on you if you won’t take a risk on yourself? About 18 months ago in early 2008 we hired an analyst (pre-MBA), but wanted to wait until after Summer to hire a post-MBA associate. It was May.

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Should You Really Reduce Form Fields?

ConversionXL

ImageScape.com) case study from 2007-2008…. Is it enough to warrant a potential decrease in conversions? IP address)? Size does matter, but there are exceptions to the rule. Tweet It!]. What Other Data Is Out There? You’re probably used to seeing this Imaginary Landscape (i.e. Image Source. Required vs. Optional.

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

blog.expensify.com

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. Working for or started something in 2008 that may or may not make it. of course, you’re allowed to have your opinions. it’s easy to stand against something.

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The cardinal sin of community management

Startup Lessons Learned

Users also asked that IMVU identify and aggressively act to eliminate the source of such products up to and including IP bans. There was also a litany of errors made in determining which developers had in fact passed UFI products into the catalog warranting their punishment. You earned their loyalty.

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