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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. Your natural tendency when an investor says yes willbe to relax and go back to writing code. Not all the people who work at VC firms are partners.

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How to pick a co-founder

venturehacks.com

The best sellers can sell to customers, partners, investors, and employees. Partner with someone who is irrationally ethical, or a rational believer that nice guys finish first. What you don’t know Business founders who don’t code use bad proxies for picking technical co-founders (&# 10 years with Java!

Cofounder 101