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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

Both Sides of the Table

This article originally ran on TechCrunch. When you account for competition for talent, the difficulty of retention, the cost of living and the difficulty of rising above the noise – there are many advantages of staying put. I’m in Seattle this week. People keep asking me if I’ve “seen anything interesting.&#

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

Product/Metrics (70%/30% time) * Get your product activation (sign-up + meaningful action) to 60% * then, Get your product retention to 20% weekly. If you’re looking to find / earn a technical co-founder then Andrew’s article is the best read. Press is something you should do once you know your activation / retention metrics are good.

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

blog.expensify.com

As one of the coherent commentators says below, Joel Spolsky himself laments schools teaching Java with the same basic reasoning of my article above, albeit more diplomatically stated.) .NET This is probably the stupidest article I’ve read today, and I thought Scoble was going to bring home the prize, but nope. Matt Sherman.

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