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Green Chile Burgers: A Recipe For Success

YoungUpstarts

He has military haircut, Kevlar vest and a gun. A Smokey the bear with a Kevlar vest and a gun. Yes, please, we order and take our seat back with the rest of the diners. At the same time, she also insured that she did not over-deliver or waste product or services. Have a product that people want – green Chile burgers.

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Do Less. More.

Both Sides of the Table

Of course your friend’s company raised $50 million and offers it’s employees free kombucha and desk massages. And even this can’t stop their employees from fleeing after two years of vesting to move on to the next hot startup. For investors life is no different. “Yeah, we think about going every year.

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Don’t Let Your Best Product Managers All Become People Managers Or Your Company Will Suffer

Hunter Walker

Why Ken Norton’s Dual Product Management Career Path Can Also Encourage Innovation At Scale. And oh my does this concept speak to my own experiences as a BigCo product lead. And oh my does this concept speak to my own experiences as a BigCo product lead.

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Startup Stock Options – Why A Good Deal Has Gone Bad

Steve Blank

VC’s have just changed the ~50-year old social contract with startup employees. For most startup employee’s startup stock options are now a bad deal. As Venture Capital emerged as an industry in the mid 1970’s, investors in venture-funded startups began to give stock options to all their employees. Here’s why.

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Airbnb Reflections

Reid Hoffman

Couchsurfing is a bad product experience. Let’s make the rest of the session a working session.” I believe Airbnb is going to be a different kind of company, with a different kind of product and service, that will become a different kind of platform for launching businesses that go well beyond replacing hotel rooms.

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Your 2015 guide to summer reading for startups

The Next Web

The Product Hunt Manual by Kiki Schirr. As someone who’s still early on in their Product Hunt obsession, I haven’t really looked at PH much from the business side. But Product Hunt is becoming an integral part of more and more startups’ launch strategies, so it’s obviously time I get familiar with how the site can be used.

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Making Decisions in Context

Austin Startup

Startups often hand out shares, options, and warrants for employees and for contractors rendering needed services. Set any vesting schedules and expiration dates on roughly similar terms, if for no other reason just so you can track all of them correctly. Does the rest of your team measure progress the way you are?