www.kalzumeus.com

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Other startups don’t but, like the Rails community, may one day find themselves asking What Do We Do When Apocalyptically Bad Things Happen On Our Framework of Choice? These are just a sample of ways in which these vulnerabilities can ruin your day. Somebody Dropped A 0-Day On Rubygems. Many startups use Ruby on Rails.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Today's Startup School, now in its sixth year, was a day full of speakers, imparting their knowledge to a packed auditorium of entrepreneurs. It is not a zero-sum game.". Lecture topic : Anecdotes from Napster, Google, and Facebook's Early Days. Lecture topic : The First 1000 Days of Airbnb (or Be Tenacious). "It

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venturehacks.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

SUPPORTED BY Products Archives @venturehacks Books AngelList About RSS How to pick a co-founder by Naval Ravikant on November 12th, 2009 Update : Also see our 40-minute interview on this topic. Guess which pair of famous co-founders is in this photo: Go through something difficult, like a Prisoner’s Dilemma or a Zero-Sum Game.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

ESL realized that by turning these radio waves into computer bits, ones and zeros, they could be processed in ways that had been considered theoretically impossible. Ah, ‘thems’ were the days. Up until ESL, radio and radar signals had always been received by analog receivers. In response the U.S.

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www.singlefounder.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

And as I pointed out in my last article, I’ve made enough money to keep up with all business expenses for the next six months with zero additional income. 1 day ago Well, not most. 1 day ago Well, I'm up and running on Windows 7 now on my development box. 1 day ago Why do I hate sportscasters? Win game 6?

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Jeff Hilimire

APRIL 27, 2015

Every day I get to “inbox zero”, multiple times a day. I have three actions I perform with email: Archive it. Archive and Reply are obvious actions, and if possible, I try to use those as much as possible. I have a system in Evernote where I tag things and group them, so I can act on them later.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2009

But what I remind them is that great grades and successful founders/technology entrepreneurs have at best a zero correlation (and anecdotal evidence suggests that the correlation may actually be negative.) Reply Quote of the Day | Bronte Media , on April 7, 2009 at 7:28 pm Said: [.] You just get successful. Steve Blank [.]

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

of VCs said they had a decreased appetite for risk and that more than half of those polled expect their firms to do between zero and three deals in the next year and you start to get the feeling things are going to get a lot worse for private companies, in aggregate, before they get better. Add to this that 72.7% next to nothing, charge?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 24, 2009

A few days ago, I received a great email from Warhammer Online. At IMVU , we would routinely find retention effects that would stem from registration changes and have impact days or weeks later. Customers who saw the video were materially more likely to be active customers of IMVU ten days later. It all depends on: 1.

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www.readwriteweb.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

These days, he said, some signals still apply. "I zero personality! Tags: startupcto. I think when Web 2.0 first exploded, that was definitely the case for the media," said Benedetto. "Oh, Oh, it has a shiny, plastic logo? And a reflection? AND ITS IN BETA?!? We found the next Google!" See Also Elegant.ly

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Steve Blank

JULY 9, 2009

I was about 90 days into the company when I began to realize there was something very different about this business. There was zero proof in the marketplace that was the case. In previous companies I could talk about technology details and how the product features could solve a customers problem. Make sure it is yours.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

An example that will probably come up in their presentation/discussion next week is the adoption of “zero waste&# policies or goals by decidedly competitive companies like Walmart and Nike ( [link] ). In the early days of my IBM employment there were a couple of internal jokes. Do the right thing. It pays off in the end.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 7, 2009

The unrest surrounded my statement that making $2500/month from your software product wouldn’t allow you to quit your day job. We could get into a discussion about how much developers make, and how many costs you will take on by quitting your day job, but it’s completely irrelevant. Retirement - Save for a rainy day.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2009

I remember the few times I had to go out to the flight line, it was usually 15 below zero (Fahrenheit.) The B-52 – When it Absolutely Had to Get There the Next Day During the Cold War, the B-52 bomber was one-third of what was called our strategic triad – meaning, it made up one-third of the U.S.’s I was always kind of curious.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 16, 2008

When you live with your own product every day, its easy to lose sight of just how busy your customers are, and just how many things they are juggling in their own lives. On Facebook, "poking" seems to have fairly high fatigue, whereas "photos" has low (close to zero?) Those customers get prompted to tag their friends in their photos.

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Altgate

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

In any case, here’s what I said (and I paraphrase): If you are captain of a tall ship, your managerial skills include your ability to ensure the sails are right, the crew is well selected, trained and orderly, executing the routine of the day, the ability to bail water in rough seas and the like. Basically everything looking inward.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

When we sold our startup in 1998 I thought one day Id do some angelinvesting. A typical angel round these days might be $150,000raised from 5 people. So you should practicallyignore (or more precisely, archive, in the Gmail sense) everythingIve told you so far. Startups create wealth, andcreating wealth is not a zero sum game.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Dream the big dream of everything your site/service/company might be some day, and write it all down. Think of it as a days work. (It It might take more or less than a day.) This text file should contain a start-to-finish project that sounds like a days work , and mentions nothing else. What is the most essential feature?

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