Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

There is no better way to feel the pressures and unknowns, as well as the excitement, of a startup than to work in one as an employee, and realize that the highs and lows are even greater for the founder. In all cases, it pays to play to your strengths, and stick to business domains and skills you already know.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2016

We have some employees, and we never missed payroll and we’re trying to change the world right? There’s almost $2 billion spent in North America on paying to play basketball. Entrepreneurship stretches from Main Street to Silicon Valley, from startups to big companies. Kerry : Yes they are.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Back then Michael Arrington accused some of Silicon Valley’s top seed funds of “colluding” by meeting secretly to talk down the valuation of startups. Social networking finally came of age connected the planet and leading to enormous wealth creation for Facebook employees and investors. What hogwash.

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