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. Your unconscious wont evenlet you think of grand ideas.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Waterloo, Canada-based Kik recently passed 80 million users, which was given particular significance from local media who noted that it took the 4-and-a-half year old startup past BlackBerry and its BBM mobile messaging solution. I went to university in Waterloo in 2005 for engineering. It began at RIM. Over the 4.5 What’s the secret?

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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. EB : Yeah. Is this the requirement? EB : It is very simple.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Step 4: Series B – you raise $10-$50M. What was a Series A round in 2005 is now a pre-seed or seed round. Repeatable sales means if you hire an account exec, you know that they will close $1M Annual Recurring Revenue in a year. Year 4: Triple the revenue to $2-$6M. Step 3: The Series A – you raise $5-$10M.

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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 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. Do we need more regulation in this area or less?

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Hundreds of startups featured since 2005, will yours be next? Part 4- Closing. free/cheap web customer relationship mgmt software. marketing automation software. email blast and mgmt software. email blast and mgmt software. email blast software. email blast software. basic email software.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

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. 4) Used to Reconnect. 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. I’m stuck on step 4, any advice? I don’t know any developers.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Founders Paul Farnell, Matthew Brindley, and David Smalley started Litmus in 2005 with a used computer and $800 dollars. Startup #4: Github. This means that they did not spend money until they got it, allowing them to be extremely conscious of hiring and spending money. How’d they do it? How’d they do it?

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