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A Credit Card and a Dream: How We Owned #SXSW for $221.96, Roundtrip

Austin Startup

Written by Chad Hall, Cofounder + CEO at RemodelMate , a humble ventures company that intends to disrupt the home improvement industry by setting the standard for residential renovations and transforming the buying experience for customers as well as the way that contractors attract customers and sell their services. Create a hit list.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

Both Sides of the Table

It was all technical. You know, the weird thing, Derek, and I should probably let you speak some time, but I was deeply technical when I went into Andersen consulting, and I got paid much less than engineers who graduated, because I had a degree in economics. Technical founder. So Mark, I want to build a great product.

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Finding Your Co-Founders

techcrunch.com

Remember that story I told about the three business school students telling me about their tech startup, leaving me to wonder who’d actually build the product? Chad and Steve from YouTube met while working at PayPal. More often than not, a startup/company fails because the product developed is not what the marketplace sought.