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More On Recruiting Programmers To Your Startup

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Trada, like many of the companies we’ve invested in, had spectacular growth (both revenue, customers, and headcount) in 2011. Reference check – oh man how many times do I have to learn this lesson.

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Sympoz Is Looking for a VP of Marketing

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They are searching for a great head of marketing. They are growing rapidly, generated over a million dollars in revenue in their first year, and are now looking for an experienced VP of Marketing to join the founders as an integral member of the executive team to lead all aspects of marketing.

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The Bullshit of Government Statistics

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A quick search showed that the March “jobless rate” (actually the unemployment rate) was 9.7%. Occasionally I’ll run into a company that does this – usually around revenue vs. gross margin dynamics, or bookings vs. revenue, or GAAP accounting vs. actual cash flows (where what really matters is cash flows.) Good economy.

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The Illusion of Product/Market Fit for SaaS Companies

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” “We are searching for product/market fit.” There’s a fun post from Ben Horowitz in 2010 titled The Revenue of the Fat Guy that weaves in comments from Fred Wilson about product/market fit where Fred argues in his post Being Fat Is Not Healthy. The search is a continuous and never ending quest.

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Are You A Boston Based Entrepreneur Looking for a Mentor?

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It’s a competition for entrepreneurs under 40 with businesses between $100k / year and $1m / year in revenue. You present to a group of judges including Warren (MAK Technologies), Rich Farrell (Full Armor), Clark Waterfall (Boston Search Group), and Michael Hackel (DiningIN) who are all EO Boston members.

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Help Repeal The Amazon Tax (Colorado HB10-1193)

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When I talked to a number of folks about this, including the organizations that I had previous supported, they demonstrated that they didn’t really understand the issue, were getting confused about states rights vs. federal rights (an issue I expect we’ll see come up a lot over the next few years given our federal, state, and local government search (..)

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Yesware – Integrating Email and CRM

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And – as I’ve continued to manage the enormous flow of email I get in Gmail, I’ve been searching for more efficient (and effective) ways to deal with it, besides just ignoring it which, while efficient, wouldn’t be very effective. To address this, we’ve invested in a new company called Yesware.

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