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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Cojones (7/11)

Both Sides of the Table

They often make great team members such as head of products, CTO, head of sales, CFO, etc. He was from South America but living in Switzerland and had launched a startup while holding down a day job at a consulting firm (McKinsey if memory serves). He wanted to raise angel money. I told him to quit his job first. Not my problem.

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Which language should my startup use?

www.reincubate.com

From what we see, one of the biggest technology risks is where companies take on agencies or developers who have built their own, idiosyncratic frameworks, and we see these tripping up companies time and time again. We’ve written previously on the other technical challenges start-ups will face when working with agencies or developers.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

But as any programmer will tell you (I’m one), any lucrative contract or full time job you can get, especially these days, will usually leave you so burnt out by the end of the day that the last thing you will want to do is sit down and bang out more code. This happens a lot. Better still, write your own post :) Ron Amen.