www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Standards arehigher; people are more sympathetic to what youre doing; the kindof people you want to hire want to live there; supporting industriesare there; the people you run into in chance meetings are in thesame business. Our startup made software for making online stores. Itsintrinsic to the medium; software is always 85% done.

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mashable.com

JANUARY 23, 2012

This is particularly true in the fast-paced high-tech and software world, where only a small percentage of startups mature. In most states, an LLC or Corporation must settle its debts before any distributions can be made to members. Again, no assets can be distributed until all debts have been settled. Jobs by Simply Hired.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Step 3: The Series A – you raise $5-$10M. What was a Series A round in 2005 is now a pre-seed or seed round. Funding: Startups typically raise anywhere from $1 million– $3 million in a seed round. Repeatable sales means if you hire an account exec, you know that they will close $1M Annual Recurring Revenue in a year.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

After all, high-quality open source software is free, the cloud makes computer power far less expensive, and anyone with an Internet connection can learn Ruby and CSS. For example, my company decided early on to hire a UI designer, which has helped tremendously with our product development. Starting a business can be very expensive.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

3) Love Solving Puzzles. After I left academia (too slow moving) and the consultancy company I worked for (lack of vision), four friends and I applied that puzzle-solving passion to creating software for solving supply chain puzzles. As I watched the new CEO hire and fire 3 regional VP’s I finally sat him down.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Inevitably, the excuses begin: I need to hire people to build the product. In later posts I’m going to get into more detail on specific topics like hiring, raising money, what types of ideas have the potential to get big, finding your founders, and the like. Like I said, forget everything else and just get your product out the door.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Startup #3: Litmus. Founders Paul Farnell, Matthew Brindley, and David Smalley started Litmus in 2005 with a used computer and $800 dollars. About reinvesting in his company Seidle said, “You take all the money you make and buy more inventory with it…I think it was more than 3 years before I was able to buy a new winter jacket.”.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

Can institutions be totally distributed or should they be rooted and loyal to a certain community or geography? It'd be great if we could somehow hire people all over the world, that would be great. I was writing some software, I was doing some product management stuff. Highlights from the Show: What is Coinbase? (:33)

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

Since then, PHP (as part of the LAMP stack ) has really been the dominant development platform, at least in the free software and startup worlds. When we started IMVU in 2004, we could rely on a staggering amount of open source software that jumpstarted our initial product offering. In most cases, simple changes are simple to make.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

EB : Honestly, I wasn't even aware of Silicon Valley or this whole concept of startups and tech companies until 2005. But I think the, I just quickly adapted and I realized it wasn't just about writing software, things like customer service, marketing growth, those ideas were. A full transcript is beneath the show resources below.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Hundreds of startups featured since 2005, will yours be next? Part 2- 3 tools for startups. Part 3- Lean Cust. free/cheap web customer relationship mgmt software. marketing automation software. email blast and mgmt software. email blast and mgmt software. email blast software. Seed Startups.

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