www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

After a thorough analysis of those 32 start-up post-mortems, we have determined the common reasons founders gave to compile this list of the top 20 ways to have your startup fail. Work life balance is not something that startup founders often get and so the risk of burning out is high. 13 – Disharmony with Investors/Co-founders.

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Jeff Hilimire

MAY 7, 2014

Check out these two stories from a story on Larry Page (Google co-founder) in Slate : In 1999, for instance, the method by which large Web companies such as eBay, Yahoo, and Google added server space had become fairly routine. They looked ugly.

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A Crowded Space

JUNE 13, 2012

When I was getting started, I was moving from an early-employee-business-generalist type to a VC. There was a pretty major theme I saw from a founder’s perspective: . I know that a startup at the early stages is the founder’s baby. It’s about whether we like or dislike the founder.

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Mike Michalowicz

OCTOBER 31, 2016

I’ve been to countless conferences over the past 20+ years and can now decipher the good from the bad from the downright ugly. Bloguettes Co-Founders Sakura Considine and Lorena Garcia will explain how to use social media to snag sales like never before. ⦁ New marketing tactics will come to you. You’ll be inspired to rebrand.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

Hopefully you and your co-founders are experts in one or two parts (agile development, SEO/SEM, etc.) But the rest; sales, marketing, bus dev is actually customer development that the founder needs to understand. Initially your job is to understand each of the parts of your business model before you hire someone to do it.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Whats is the best way to find a co-founder for your startup? However, one of my co-founders doesn’t seem to be as motivated as the rest of us. As founders invest massive amounts of time into their start-up, how critical is it for them to come out of their “hermit caves” and network?

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 25, 2016

by John Thies, CEO and co-founder of Email on Acid. An ESP has employees dedicated to staying up to date on the latest CAN-SPAM laws, going toe-to-toe with ISPs and helping maintain your sender reputation and inbox placement. This may be the quickest way to end a relationship before it even starts. Provide detailed reporting.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 25, 2016

by John Thies, CEO and co-founder of Email on Acid. An ESP has employees dedicated to staying up to date on the latest CAN-SPAM laws, going toe-to-toe with ISPs and helping maintain your sender reputation and inbox placement. This may be the quickest way to end a relationship before it even starts. Provide detailed reporting.

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Bryce Dot VC

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

In the last 10 years, 7 times more founders have been exposed to the good, bad and ugly of starting and growing a venture funded company. Each of those founders had to recruit employees and build teams funded by their venture investors.

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Unlike employee training costs, which can typically be spread over years of service, the relative return from training a consultant is modest and pricey. This mistake, if left uncorrected, could have resulted in significant negative tax consequences for both our employees and the company. IP) is an ugly thing at a startup.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

Almost every PHP-based website is burdened with ugly URLs that contain the name of the file that implements each page. Youre right php can get ugly when used inline with html. There is a stark difference between both types of employees. PHP is a terrible, ugly, bloated language. January 16, 2009 2:54 AM DROCKsaid.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Meanwhile, the rash of early liquidity and recent IPOs — unsatisfying as they were — gave liquidity to thousands of employees at large companies, and a subset of those made very real money. “Founders don’t think their problems are due to trends. And in fact, overall trends are a second-order effect for founders.”

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

But it’s when you look between the survey of VCs and the survey of private businesses that things start to get ugly. Been there Done that This is very depressing for all future founders, or even currently early stage founders. link] markallenroberts Start ups require an emotional intelligence beyond that of being an employee.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Like I said, it’s good the identity is disguised, because Rand lays a whole lot of blame on the unnamed CEO, and his behavior after a co-founder left the company. A CEO, more so than any other employee, needs to live the company’s culture. Second: not even faint praise for this CEO. Third: lessons from failure.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

With over $1 billion in revenue, 2000 employees and a market capitalization of over $6 billion, Akamai has become a role model for scalable start-ups. Look at the (quite ugly) P&L for Akamai in 1999 and 2000 – costly mistakes were made, but ultimately enabled the company to scale as rapidly as it did: ($'s in millions). . . . .

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Expect it incredibly ugly but functionally working. For example: in my translation site story, above, the first milestone might be just a plain ugly web page where a company can create an account, create a new project, then upload named documents into that project. Co-founders and outsourcing work the same.

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