Remove Common Stock Remove Customer Development Remove Design Remove Product
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Building a new startup hub

Startup Lessons Learned

They take common stock, not preferred, a fact that the entrepreneurs mentioned to me many times. And do your customer development. And one last specific practice that came up at this session: feverishaaron : UI, design and programmers are all in the same department, all have the same title, and all are evaluated the same.

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Lessons from the Front Line of a Microfund

The Entrepreneurial Mind

ownership in the Common Stock of the company. But it is also true in detailed technical areas such as: Scaling performance in a cloud hosted app, choosing Ruby or PHP for dev, successfully negotiating angel term sheet, the use of 99 designs to inexpensively build a subscriber base of users, as well as lots more. In return for.