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Finding Your Co-Founders

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In my case, I grew up in Connecticut and spent a fair amount of time in New York – all the while trying to start companies, relatively unsuccessfully. However, nowhere has as many real estate agents, lawyers, accountants, landlords, employees, co-founders, mentors, and VCs all steeped in startup culture as does Silicon Valley.

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Leadership Lessons To Help Guide You To Excellence

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You know, the, the one I wrote about, I guess my last two books is a company in Connecticut, Seymour, Connecticut, and it's called Basement Systems Inc. And the point was that all the staff jobs are being offshore, whether it's training, whether it's this, or whether it's that. That's what I love about SMEs. 19:34): Right?

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Transcript of How to Turn Your Product Idea Into a Business

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Quite often when you’re offshoring and producing in another country there will be a proposal from the factory. It’s made in Connecticut and a very, very successful product thanks to the meeting of those two generations. This is a key differentiator in products so I’m not sure why people would skip that step.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

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sites from scratch - Experienced with the majority of the social api’s (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Meebo, PayPal, Flickr) - Experience managing offshore dev teams - Most recently a Director of Product Development at an early stage funded startup [link] Skip Bronkie Just an all around great post.