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Don’t Roll out the Red Carpet on the Way out the Door

Both Sides of the Table

Before I started my first company in 1999 I worked for Andersen Consulting (now Accenture). Soon after he was promoted to Senior Architect, our highest role without being CTO. So we decided to sponsor Ryan to work out of the US in San Francisco. When we started our next company, Koral, Ryan was a co-founder.

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Why Startups Fail - 20 Top Reasons Gleaned from 32 Startup Failure Post-Mortems

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After a thorough analysis of those 32 start-up post-mortems, we have determined the common reasons founders gave to compile this list of the top 20 ways to have your startup fail. In San Francisco one can find hacking events on a daily basis, as well as many unconference events where people get their hands dirty playing with code.

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

blog.expensify.com

Do a curl (or your.NET equivalent) on each domain, and see how many are running a Windows server: I think you’ll find the fraction very small. Nothing says contraction negotiation like the smell of cordite. But if you are the odd person who is interested, it’s worth asking: why do so few use.NET? Fred Bosick.

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