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Twitter Link Roundup #176 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

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5 Hiring Mistakes That Can Crush Your Company’s Culture – [link]. Q1 Venture Capital Spending & Number Of Deals Down, M&A Activity Drops 44 Percent And Pre-Money Valuations Plummet – [link]. Activity Based Pricing: When Is It The Right Choice for Your Startup? – [link].

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How to Start a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

One of the best tricks I learned during our startup was a rule for deciding who to hire. And when businesspeople try to hire hackers, they cant tell which ones are good.Even other hackers have a hard time doing that. When we got real funding nearthe end of 1996, we hired a great CFO, who fixed everything retroactively.

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