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Don’t drink your own Kool-Aid (surviving TC50)

Both Sides of the Table

We had scrambled to get a product to market, built our first website, rapidly hired a technology team, raised our seed round of capital ($1.5 million … yes that was seed in 1999!) I sat next to Irwin Jacobs (founder of Qualcomm) on a bus ride. Tags: Start-up Advice startup technology. But I never took a sip.