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Spectacles and $SNAP’s $20B Valuation

Austin Startup

And to top it all off, Snap isn’t offering voting rights to public market investors, which should discount the stock price further. The smartphone is for everyone, we don’t have to think the iPhone is about a certain demographic, or country or vertical market: it’s for everyone. How can one justify a $20B valuation for Snap?

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The Sharp End of the Stick « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

In an IP licensing business, legal and finance are the sharp end of the stick. I’ve encountered finance organizations with budget processes designed to simplify their lives, but not the rest of the company’s. The best people in the “sharp end&# organizations simply vote with their feet and leave.

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Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice - Discussion

news.ycombinator.com

We already have some competitors in the vertical and while there is no point in trying to hide the actual idea, there are differences in the way we implement stuff that can get us an advantage over the competition. >> Id then allow digg style voting up of stories in order to bubble things up to the top page of the site.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

Because.NET is designed to extend, not disrupt. NET is designed to tightly integrate with and seamlessly extend the Microsoft stack in extremely powerful but ultimately incremental ways. Some us have evolved past the visual designers. Did you confused the Visual Studio WinForms designer with C#, then accidentally call it.NET?

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