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What Tech Entrepreneurs Could Learn from Chamillionaire

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There are many analogies here for software development. He got people to do bootlegged mixtapes in new york, france and new zealand. Tags: Startup Advice This Week in Venture Capital. He created demand. Cham had other ideas. He wanted to be bootlegged even more. The song spread globally.

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Is gust.com a difficult platform to replicate?

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When people would ask a similar question back then about the difficulty of software development, my usual response was “anyone can write a TAP program over a weekend that will work with 80% of the paging systems in the world…but getting it to work on the other 20% will take you a year.”

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Lessons Learned: About the author

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He serves on the advisory board of a number of technology startups, and has worked as a consultant to a number of startups, companies, and venture capital firms. In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership.

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

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Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. He is the author of “ Joel on Software ” and I was a reader nearly 10 years ago when I had never heard of Fred Wilson, Brad Feld and VentureHacks didn’t exist.

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Whose Life are You Going to Change?

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You can also spend time with a newer startup helping them navigate the world of product management, venture capital or team building. years as a software developer I decided I wanted a change. My mom organized a trip to take me to France & Israel. Sure, you can get away with less, but why?

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

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Over the past two years, one of the most influential venture-capital firms has turned the usual rules of start-up investing on its head. Agence France-Presse/Getty Images. "We gave up 70% of the company to American Research & Development Corp. Enlarge Image Close. We both win if we work together.

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

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Do you see product managers as a hindrance to software development? Companies historically have structured their development teams in different ways. Microsoft became obsessed with COM, OLE and felt that it was the future of software development. With StackOverflow, Joel raised money through venture capital.