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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

He has a really interesting background as a product manager and now an entrepreneur. From there, I became the first non-founder employee at an e-commerce startup called BITSource, which was the first electronic software distributor delivering electronic volume software licenses to corporations. Tell me a bit about your background.

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Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice - Discussion

news.ycombinator.com

Hacker News new | comments | ask | jobs | submit login Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice. I work for a stealth startup. The idea is just a very small part of the reason why we are in stealth. Investors are looking for proven entrepreneurs to enter this emerging market and they will get well funded too.

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Schrödinger’s Start-Up — Why VCs Don’t Sign NDAs or Non-Compete Agreements

Austin Startup

Every so often, I get an email from an entrepreneur that starts something like this: “By reading further, you agree to the terms of our non-disclosure and non-compete agreement” My immediate reaction is to delete these emails with prejudice. I am not alone. The reality is far from that.

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How to Scale Support of Portfolio Companies

David Teten

For each of these, there is a human element (non-scaleable) and the possibility of a tech layer (which any one VC will only have implemented to varying extents). We have insight on the competencies of our companies’ personnel, and who is hiring or shrinking. N etwork – We organize events regularly to build out our community.

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How to get beta signups for your startup in 9 steps

thenextweb.com

Entrepreneur. 3 Don’t go too stealth. Unless you have tons of funding (see Kohort ), be careful about going too “stealth.” 4 Reach out to complimentary (not competing) startups. Paring with similar, but non-competing companies makes cross promotion easy and mutually beneficial. All Stories.

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How to Compete Against Open Source Competition

Software By Rob

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. How to Compete Against Open Source As a commercial software vendor you have to focus on your key advantages over open source software: Save Your Users Time. You will have an edge with business users since time is highly monetized for entrepreneurs and enterprises.

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Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth

blog.captainrecruiter.com

An Internet entrepreneur needs a website. If a software geek really wants to try building something for no pay, theyre going to work for themself instead of following another cashless entrepreneur. I just have a hard time evaluating competence of business co-founders. I'll need damn good evidence of your competence (e.g.