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Embrace Losing – It Will Make You Stronger

Both Sides of the Table

Next year I’m going to spend time in Seattle and Boulder in addition. Winning the contract meant that we would hit our quarterly revenue figure and be in good position for our annual sales target. Two weeks after winning the deal and well into implementation planning we released a new version of our software.

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Embrace Losing – It Will Make You Stronger

Both Sides of the Table

Next year I’m going to spend time in Seattle and Boulder in addition. Winning the contract meant that we would hit our quarterly revenue figure and be in good position for our annual sales target. Two weeks after winning the deal and well into implementation planning we released a new version of our software.

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27 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

At 24 I was putting myself through college and running the creative services department at an energy systems engineering firm in Seattle when the company was purchased by a French firm. I realized that working for large companies who were fighting each other, or fighting the government, was never going to scratch that itch.

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How to Fund a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

I wassurprised recently when I realized that all the worst problems wefaced in our startup were due not to competitors, but investors.Dealing with competitors was easy by comparison. There never has to be atime when you have no revenues. Your natural tendency when an investor says yes willbe to relax and go back to writing code.