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Startup Lessons for the Proto-Founder

www.metamorphblog.com

Make sure you own all the IP created during this trial period, and make no promises for later. Tiny, contracting market. Vest, young man. Starting a company without vesting your stock is like getting your girlfriend pregnant on the first date. Need to learn about IP, patents, etc.? “Stealth Mode&# = FAIL.

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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. there are start ups who are legitimately using.net because they don’t need to look directly into the tcp/ip stack. Nothing says contraction negotiation like the smell of cordite.

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