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Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice - Discussion

news.ycombinator.com

I work for a stealth startup. I like this slogan as much as the next guy, but its implications may not be what you think they are. What if execution is (mostly) a function of money you have? What if someone with double the money we have can execute in half the time? That is what you (and others) invest against.

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Good to Great to Excellent: A Roadmap

www.launch.co

By Jason Calacanis Ive spent the past two decades building products. or "Why does A work like B when it should just do C?" Later on it became easy to launch them (folks wanted to work with me, angel investing got easier after I made some folks a 15x return in 12 months, etc), and the challenge was to make them good.

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Why Crunch Modes Doesn't Work: Six Lessons

www.igda.org

Why Crunch Modes Doesn't Work: Six Lessons. Why Crunch Mode Doesnt Work: 6 Lessons Theres a bottom-line reason most industries gave up crunch mode over 75 years ago: Its the single most expensive way there is to get the work done. In the short term, working over 21 hours continuously is equivalent to being legally drunk.

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

blog.expensify.com

Tuesday midnight edit : After >500 comments, >1000 tweets, and >1000 Facebook likes, I’m closing comments on this thread so we can all get back to work. Rather, we pay all our attention to a few key questions we ask every candidate, each aiming at uncovering a single key point: is this someone we really want to work with?

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

What are the three most essential features ? What is the most essential feature? Write a simple overview of what it does. For example: If you want to sell videos, you dont need to say whats in the videos. What happens when you click it? Exactly what did the system do? What happens next? Stop there.