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How to Start a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

But its hard to raise money with an IP cloud over your head, becauseinvestors cant judge how serious it is. Does your productuse XML? ) Almost everyone who worked for us was an animal at what they did. The problem was, since wed been about to be acquired, wed allowed ourselves to run low on cash. Basically, a VC is a source ofmoney.

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

blog.expensify.com

Your vision is so limited that it’s scary to see that you are actually the CEO of a successful cloud platform. You got two out of three right when you said.NET and Java are limiting, but you left out XML (still mostly a solution still looking for a problem). For many tasks, XML is the least portable format).

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