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How To Start A Startup – For Busy People

YoungUpstarts

The side benefit of this was that when engineers got tired of answering customer service calls on a particular tech issue, they would fix the tech issue. Airbnb knew their first employee would be critical to their culture, so to find their first engineer they conducted hundreds of interviews over four to six months. How to Get Started.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

This is the first post in what’s going to be a series of blogs on how to go from nothing – no connections, no team, no money and no knowledge of how the startup industry really works – to operating a growing business. I’m taking a 52 week course in how to start up, run, operate, and achieve self employment. Sorry, folks.

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29 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

My research was valuable enough for a large corporation that is known for creating a popular operating system to give us about $250K in funding. I started my PR and marketing firm since I love startups and want to give them a chance to grow. I was a Ph.D. student working towards becoming a research scientist with a large R&D lab.