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6 critical tips for launching a startup while holding a day job | VentureBeat

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For example, you know that to avoid social media shitstorms you’re supposed to have stupendous customer service , so you claim as much on your website. Or it might mean you have enough customers to have “proved&# you have a viable business model, so now you can raise money with sensible terms.

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#AMA with :20 Min VC

Reid Hoffman

How do you think about the ability to do that, and kind of manipulate your own evaluation to fit the model and actually not just be pure in thinking? There wasn’t like an IPO – this amazing IPO that just happened. You say, “Let’s set this up for the new cycles of invention and reinvention when you go past the IPO process.”