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Why Uber is The Revenge of the Founders

Steve Blank

A version of this article is in the Harvard Business Review. Replacing the founder when the company needed to scale was almost standard operating procedure. But in the 20th century, dominated by hardware and software, technology swings inside an existing market happened slowly — taking years, not months. The founders.

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Nonprofit Board Committee Structure

Board Effect

Even when you have good people all around on a nonprofit board, the structure of the board and committees is important to the health and sustainability of the operation. Board directors typically vote on the board officers at the first meeting of the fiscal year. Choose Board Officers Thoughtfully.

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Why You Should Start Marketing the Day You Start Coding

Software By Rob

And after talking about this subject at length, I found myself again evangelizing it last week at the Business of Software conference. And these days with how easy it is to build an application, your code isn’t worth much, either. Ideas (and in many cases the code itself) are not worth as much as we think.

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Excerpt from "Do More Faster" - Avoid Co-Founder Conflict by Dharmesh Shah

ReadWriteStart

You can have voting and non-voting shares. Common areas to address are decisions around capitalization, executive hiring and firing, share issuance (dilution), and acquisitions. Or worse, one that claims equity that you don't believe is due. What are the financing plans for the company? You can set up a board.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

online.wsj.com

Computer Software. Media & Marketing. Small Business. More Industries. Accounting. Advertising. Broadcasting & Entertainment. Computer Hardware. Consumer Products. Defense & Aerospace. Financial Services & Insurance. Food & Tobacco. Hospitality. Industrial Goods & Services. Marketing & Strategy. Media Agencies. Metals & Mining. NAME Comcast.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. s the new way to code, and quite easy to learn. You can write back end code in javascript, one language conquers all! Code Igniter. Code Hosting and Version Control. code spaces (svn). SlideShare.

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Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice - Discussion

news.ycombinator.com

His quote on the subject, "no amount of finance will cure mismanagement". We not only told everyone what we did, we posted the source code and the blueprints online. flavor of a question-and-answer, poll-your-friends site with a distant revenue model and no user acquisition strategy. Nobody ever stole our ideas. Note the "new".

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