Scalable Startup

AUGUST 9, 2018

At this stage you’re essentially selling yourself and your cofounders. That’s why much early stage funding is “Friends and Family”; your friends and family naturally overrate you and/or can’t say no. PreCog Security, a company I am currently helping to build as cofounder, is taking this approach.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Friendster’s valuation set the tone for the entire social networking space. For early stage companies, it’s important to show that you’re on path, that you have prospects, and that you can get to your vision. the move to networks) amplified that value considerably. Jean-Luc showed deep technology capabilities.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

How cofounders can collaborate without going crazy. You’re going to tell Jason and Bob just the name of your URL, nothing else, and see if Jason can figure out what it is. It helps you manage, at first a checking account, is where the name came from, through text messaging. Let’s play the name game once more.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

This time things like, Patent, copyrights, other basic rules like technical issues and complications were something i was expecting from you. Had Seth’s co-founders lacked technical skills, but had the same enthusiasm around the RDF of bringing IM to the browser, they would have been equally successful. Does that make sense?

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