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Embrace Losing – It Will Make You Stronger

Both Sides of the Table

I keep my competitors as friends and those that didn’t choose me or my product as friends, too. In the 2003/04 timefame I was living in the UK and running my first company. And then the news came. A woman named Trish Hannon called me with the good news that we had won the project. Quite the opposite. I move on.

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Embrace Losing – It Will Make You Stronger

Both Sides of the Table

I keep my competitors as friends and those that didn’t choose me or my product as friends, too. In the 2003/04 timefame I was living in the UK and running my first company. And then the news came. A woman named Trish Hannon called me with the good news that we had won the project. Quite the opposite. I move on.

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Convertible Equity, A Better Alternative To Convertible Debt?

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She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was. Ressi, Wilson Sonsini and a top-tier accounting firm (which preferred not to be named) have been working on developing this set of documents for some time now, says Ressi. Product: The Funded. → Learn More. View this document on Scribd. Photo Credit/ 22dollars.

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Embrace Losing

Both Sides of the Table

I keep my competitors as friends and those that didn’t choose me or my product as friends, too. In the 2003/04 timefame I was living in the UK and running my first company. And then the news came. A woman named Trish Hannon called me with the good news that we had won the project. Quite the opposite. I move on.

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Google VP: Here's How to Get Bought By Us

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The product is the star of the show.” But there’s also the satellite-mapping company Keyhole, which in 2003 became the seed that sprouted Google Maps. My team would like to sell a simple concept with intangible assets (domain names, copyrights, etc.) Productivity Lists. Mashable France. GoogleClique.

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The Best Entrepreneurs Are Hyper Competitive & Hate Losing

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Mark Zuckerberg seems to be me to be one of the most talented young technology professionals of his generation and seems to have an amazing vision for technology and product. It amazes me how quickly a modest success story gets replicated and any initial product / market advantages get narrowed. You need to fight for every inch.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

Imagine you want to store data about customers, each of whom has "last name" field in your database. The problem should be familiar to anyone who plays Scrabble: not all letter are equally likely to be used as the first letter of someones name. Give each entity a name. For example, consider this simple scheme.