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Remind Me Why I Love You? (Why “In Person” is Everything)

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I then had to review a nefarious IP lawsuit filed against another company and help the CEO figure out whether we should just pay it or join forces with the other companies named and fight it. In our last meeting you asked me about our cohorts and why retention went down. New York, Chicago, Boston, etc.

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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

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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. They have the same trade-off decisions that you do about packing up and moving to Silicon Valley vs. staying and building locally. Seattle has its patrons.

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

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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. It makes you look like a religious zealot and a kind of high self-regarding anal retentive. of course, you’re allowed to have your opinions. it takes no intelligence.

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