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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

Sure, we built SaaS products before the term even existed but at 31 it was hard to delineate reality from what all of the monied people around us were telling us what we were worth. In those years I learned to properly build product, price products, sell products and serve customers. Until we weren’t.

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Benefits of Bitcoin

The Startup Magazine

Bitcoin was created by Satoshi Nakamoto and published as an open-source code in January 2009. Bitcoin was initially introduced in 2009 but it took some time before the general public paid attention to them. Bitcoin appeals more towards the tech-savvy crowd of people because it lacks “middlemen” or centralised authority.

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Is This Ex-Googler’s Pre-Product Approach the Fast Track to Product-Market Fit?

View from Seed

Starting in 2009, Savoia began using an approach as an engineering director at Google that helped the tech giant know whether it was about to build the right product for the market … or a product that would flop. NextView Ventures: For those who might be unfamiliar, what is this concept of pretotyping?

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7 Business Travel Hacks To Keep You Productive And Stress-Free On The Road

YoungUpstarts

These 7 business hacks will help to keep you productive and stress-free while on the road: 1. We always seem most productive right before leaving for a vacation, so why not treat business travel the same way? All the productivity hacks in the world are useless if you get sick or severely worn down when you travel.

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World with Bitcoin

The Startup Magazine

Bitcoin is a digital currency that was created in 2009 by an unknown programmer, or group of programmers. Bitcoin has grown in popularity since its inception in 2009 becoming the top cryptocurrency available. Bitcoin value increased exponentially since 2009 when it was worth less than a dollar. What is Bitcoin?

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Productivity Hacks: Voicemail, Folders & To-Do’s

Both Sides of the Table

I recently wrote a post about avoiding the “ Deferred Life Plan &# and some related thoughts about personal productivity that came from Tim Ferriss’s book, The Four Hour Workweek. I would love to say that I’m the productivity guru. Tim Ferriss gave this extra emphasis in his book. .

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Lessons Learned: The product manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, October 5, 2008 The product managers lament Life is not easy when youre working in an old-fashioned waterfall development process, no matter what role you play. I met one recently that is working on a really innovative product, and the stories I heard from their development team made me want to cringe.