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How to Start a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

But its hard to raise money with an IP cloud over your head, becauseinvestors cant judge how serious it is. Before you consummate a startup, ask everyone about their previous IP history. Does your productuse XML? ) 4] Corollary: Avoid starting a startup to sell things to the biggestcompany of all, the government.

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

blog.expensify.com

there are start ups who are legitimately using.net because they don’t need to look directly into the tcp/ip stack. You got two out of three right when you said.NET and Java are limiting, but you left out XML (still mostly a solution still looking for a problem). For many tasks, XML is the least portable format).

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