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The Corrosive Downside of Acquihires

Both Sides of the Table

I’m supposed to believe that my best innovation can only come from scores of startup founders who just made millions and have now become CVOs at my company? Usually the location of the engineers matters great so having offshore engineering makes acquihires unlikely. Let’s assume $2 million in seed money.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. In later posts I’m going to get into more detail on specific topics like hiring, raising money, what types of ideas have the potential to get big, finding your founders, and the like.