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4 Founders & Harvard MBAs on Finding Startup Traction & MBAs-as-Entrepreneurs

View from Seed

million raised, per CrunchBase): It was January of second semester of my second year, and Michelle [Zatlyn, Matt’s co-founder] and I were brainstorming different ideas to enter into the business plan competition. NextView Ventures: Did you start to seriously work on the idea during business school or after? Tom Eisenmann.

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Why Free Plans Don't Work

Software By Rob

at 1:59 pm i do believe it depends on your business model. as long as there’s some sort of try-before-you-buy, i think you can safely leave a fully-supported free version off the business plan. Should you even be bundling into plans, or should you meter by users or MB or proposals sent or whatever? Otherwise, no.

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How to Start a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

March 2005 (This essay is derived from a talk at the Harvard ComputerSociety.) You make elaborate plans for a product, hire a team of engineers to develop it (people who do this tend to use the term "engineer" for hackers), and then find after a year that youve spent two milliondollars to develop something no one wants.

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

blog.expensify.com

This literally the dumbest, most ignorant piece that I’ve ever read about software development and/or hiring programmers. I also know numerous other programming languages and have worked with many software development platforms over the last 25 years. Look what happened to Gawker. March 25, 2011 at 3:23 pm.

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