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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #11: New Year’s advice for middle-aged people

Austin Startup

I was fortunate to live in Silicon Valley for six years before moving to “Silicon Hills” in 1997?—?having DFS was formed in 1997 to provide Dell customers the best financing options. I will never forget what you told me in 2008 when I asked your advice on signing a NDA with the VCs before sharing our deck. Yes, it is true?

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The Valley Lacks Flexibility, Not Talent

ReadWriteStart

Guest author Chris Heilmann has been a professional Web developer since 1997 and has worked in various agencies and corporations on large, international products. Why would you put a several day process in place with dozens of interviews starting by forcing the applicant to sign an NDA? Outdated and Impersonal HR Practices.

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Remember Long Term Capital?

BeyondVC

John Meriwether from Liar’s Poker fame assembled a stellar group from Wall Street and academia including Myron Scholes (one of the creators of the Black-Scholes option pricing model) and Robert Merton who together shared the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1997. Hmmm-it really does sound like Long Term Capital.

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