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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Cojones (7/11)

Both Sides of the Table

Through comment conversations with many of you I tried to emphasize that it isn’t enough to just have one attribute. They often make great team members such as head of products, CTO, head of sales, CFO, etc. I started the series talking about what I consider the most important attribute of an entrepreneur : Tenacity. It was May.

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Startup Lessons for the Proto-Founder

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Home About Contact Home About Contact The Metamorphosis Becoming an Entrepreneur, by Matt Mireles Startup Lessons for the Proto-Founder I started SpeakerText in October 2008 during the financial apocalypse. Make sure you own all the IP created during this trial period, and make no promises for later. Tiny, contracting market.

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

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Do a curl (or your.NET equivalent) on each domain, and see how many are running a Windows server: I think you’ll find the fraction very small. there are start ups who are legitimately using.net because they don’t need to look directly into the tcp/ip stack. Nothing says contraction negotiation like the smell of cordite.

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