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The 4 Types of Stories Founders Need to Tell When Fundraising

View from Seed

Investors and smart hires will always do appropriate diligence before investing money and time, but they won’t bother doing that unless they are excited about your story. You can’t hand people a dry plan and expect them to “grok” the genius of your opportunity. As an adult, I know the world operates on story first and logic second.

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Lessons Learned: The ABCDEF's of conducting a technical interview

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 29, 2008 The ABCDEFs of conducting a technical interview I am incredibly proud of the people I have hired over the course of my career. On the one hand, it gives you insight into what kind of employee the candidate might be. The six key attributes spell ABCDEF: Agility.

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Lessons Learned: Five Whys

Startup Lessons Learned

Yet there is one specific technique that I learned most clearly from this book: asking why five times. Instead, we can use the technique of asking why five times to get to the root cause of the problem. After reading it, you might not even realize that there are cars involved in Toyotas business. why did that code get written?

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Good to Great to Excellent: A Roadmap

www.launch.co

Ive been working on "Great to Excellent" techniques for all aspects of my professional life: my hosting ability on "This Week in Startups," angel investing, the LAUNCH Festival and my "day job" Mahalo. I was fried by having my fate in the hands of an anonymous, and sometimes evil, little algorithm. Search. -->. Latest Profiles.

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Finance and accounting biggest headache for small biz owners followed by tech

NZ Entrepreneur

If you’re an entrepreneur or small business owner, and you’ve struggled at any point with mastering a new business management skill, you’re not alone. If you’re already an avid podcast listener, then you’ll know they’re the perfect source of snackable, hands-free content. Business mentors & coaches.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

Most components in a modern data center are completely stateless, meaning they just do batches of work that is handed to them, but dont store any data long-term. More common is to use a one-way hashing algorithm to map the data to be accessed to one of the shards that store it. Stateful servers require more careful attention.

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

blog.expensify.com

Update: The end is near, Expensify is hiring a.NET programmer! As you might know, we’re hiring the best programmers in the world. Expensify Blog. Expense Reports That Don't Suck. CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers. Learn more… Saturday edit: Wow, quite a response to this. Sunday edit : Still going!

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