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Master of Customer Acquisition, Matt Coffin, On Startups …

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Given the bank more “warrant coverage.&#. Called Tim Spicer (c-companies partner) and he told him matt, they only want one thing, more warrant coverage!!! Mark: 10% warrant coverage is like stock options. Selling LowerMyBills: o In 2004 he was getting a lot of call to take more money but was not interested.

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Be Careful not to be Penny Wise, Pound Foolish

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I learned everything I know about startups in these lean years: 2001-2004. If you’re business has complicated accounting (like many ad network businesses) and if you’re raised enough money to warrant it – a great VP Finance is worth his/her weight in gold.

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25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

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We did find some specific industry verticals where the model works (some high schools, some boxing and mixed martial arts events, some exclusive conferences), but not enough to warrant a large market and an independent company. A couple of friendly amendments: * Two commenters on a May 2004 blog post, Whither Trepia? Company : IonLab.

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

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Just as.NET is both a lock-in and very restricting, and Java violates both “lean cuisine class hierarchy” and “objects if necessary, but not necessarily objects”, the “we’ll just use XML” mantra deserves to die. That would have given you a trifecta. March 27, 2011 at 8:06 pm.

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