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See More than 120 Speakers and Mentors at The Lean Startup Conference

Startup Lessons Learned

As the emeritus Chief Technology Officer of the United States, he still connects government and Silicon Valley. Ben Horowitz ’s book The Hard Thing About Hard Things is driving the conversation around startup management this year. He was a very early employee of Facebook , and engineering director there through the moment it blew up.

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9 Austin Startup Week Sessions at Capital Factory That Blew Us Away

Austin Startup

In his book, Secrets of Sand Hill Road, he explains exactly how VC’s decide where and how much to invest, and how entrepreneurs can get the best possible deal while making the most of their relationships with VC’s. Instead of stressing about frazzled customers, use that passion to reflect on your work and continue modifying and improving.

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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. NET (and Java) experience are big bright red-flags in my book. I am the VP of Engineering at a cutting-edge startup that sells software built on the.NET platform.

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