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Five common misconceptions about building a startup in New York City

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Someone offers you a secure job with lots of responsibility to build some piece of trading software that billions of dollars will run on and thousands of people will use. Should they work on your “real time” web startup or write code that processes a million trades a minute? Response: Wall St. That’s why recruiters make so much coin.

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Transcript of How to Build a Community Around Your Business

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It’s part of the product.” Jono Bacon: Because the companies that tend to fail in this is they hire a community manager and that community manager essentially acts as like an ambassador to the community. In Kansas City. ” And then you provide guidance to your staff members for how to participate in that.

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Transcript of How to Prepare to Sell Your Business

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He started Stackify to solve the biggest challenge he had as the CTO of VinSolutions, so Matt, thanks for joining me. I was that hired gun in some senses. Matt Watson: Based in the Kansas City area. We didn’t talk about this ahead of time, but that’s what I’m standing in Kansas City, Missouri recording this.