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

Reid Hoffman

The founder of early internet startup Freeloader (acquired for $38 million in 1996) and anti-spam company Brightmail (acquired for $370 million in 2004), Paul went on to pioneer the ride-hailing space. 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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Pricing experiments you might not know, but can learn from

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Well, in eight studies published from 1987 to 2004 charm prices ($49, $79, $1.49 In one of the experiments done by University of Chicago and MIT, a mail order catalog was printed in 3 different versions. Note: His freemium plan actually converted 12% more, but had the lowest retention. Be careful when offering free plans.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

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Don’t forget NASA, National Research/Technology Laboratories, Boeing, US Defense dept, many of the top technology Universities like MIT, Stanford, UC Berkeley, University of Chicago, etc, etc, fall in same usage categories. It makes you look like a religious zealot and a kind of high self-regarding anal retentive. Bill Beebe.

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