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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 2: Anand Sanwal and Chris Shipley

Steve Blank

Hollywood in the beginning was a bunch of artists who wanted to make entertainment, and then the whole infrastructure of PR and hangers on and the New York money came in. Of course, then we had these long dot matrix printers with the green bar paper, and it would just spew out row after row.

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How I Found a Great CTO

www.huffingtonpost.com

Hiring the best developers is essential because a great developer is easily 3 times as productive as an average developer, yet their salaries are usually similar. ­om migrated off Drupal.

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52 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

When my Japanese husband died at a young age almost 16 years ago, I had been doing medical writing for a major New York Hospital and also helping him with his documentary films for Japanese and American public television. Greene, Land Carroll & Blair PC ! #20 Floralux is what makes our Restore Gel green.

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Trade Show Checklist: How To Successfully Sell Your Product At Trade Shows

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

I remember one brutal season doing the January accessory show in New York, flying to Hong Kong to walk their trade show and meet with suppliers, then back to the US to do Magic in Las Vegas, back to NY to do Coterie , and then to Paris to do Premiere Classe. It was clear that our product was priced too high for this particular show.

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The pioneers of Silicon Valley’s fast culture on how to grow quickly, not recklessly

Reid Hoffman

O’Reilly unwittingly illustrates this point by telling the story of Sunil Paul, a friend and a successful serial entrepreneur who filed a patent on the core elements of GPS-enabled ride-hailing in 2000. Yet despite literally patenting ride-hailing in 2000, his own venture, Sidecar, lost out to the more aggressive scaling of Uber and Lyft.

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ProfessorVC: Buyer's Remorse

Professor VC

I was previously a founder of Bizmetric in 2000 (your firm chose not to invest) and am now working on a startup using 3D architectural visualization for green building. The Most Obvious Mobile Ad Unit and What the New York Times Got Wrong. I would really appreciate your advice and would like to meet with you if possible.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

So along come companies like Slide, RockYou & Zynga who wanted to build apps across all the social networks but were green-lighted the hardest by Mark Zuckerberg. I saw the product recently in New York and loved it. It was at that moment that a 22-year-old Mark Zuckerberg completely schooled the 75-year-old Rupert Murdoch.