2007 Employee Operations Seed Capital 
The Next Web
OCTOBER 3, 2012
In 2007, Paul Graham gave a variety of causes for startup death in How Not To Die. It can be very tempting to take in a little bit of seed capital, and start to operate as if you’re a big company. Adding a second employee reduces the first employee’s “weight” in the company to 25%.
Startup Lessons Learned
MAY 25, 2021
"I just directly observed that the technology for doctors was really far from what they needed to operate at a high productivity level," he told me. His first instinct was that "somebody" should rethink how a doctor operates, how they communicate with the patient, and basically how the whole concept of care delivery works.
David Cohen
JUNE 16, 2015
Startup Weekend was quite literally born in my office at Techstars in 2007. During the first ever Techstars class, Andrew Hyde (an early Techstars employee) came into my office and told me about his idea for Startup Weekend. Ultimately, he decided this wasn’t scalable and the business was formalized.
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