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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. >> There are some other serious reasons why we dont want to go public right now.

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Why We Prefer Founding CEOs

Ben's Blog

VMware—Diane Greene. (*) While not technically cofounders, Andy Grove and Thomas Watson, Sr. Jobs not only killed all the commodity hardware and the horizontal strategy; he went radically vertical. Despite this dynamic history, modern record company executives badly missed the most sweeping technical innovation—the Internet.

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20 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

The final word, media, helped to define the vertical we were to operate in. 11- Inspired by the term software development kit. The name was inspired by the term software development kit which programmers use to more quickly create software through pre-written code functions. Photo Credit: Carl Potak.

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

blog.expensify.com

Had I known it was going to take the internet by storm I probably would have been a bit more careful with my word choice (especially referring to.NET as a language, doh!). But just to clarify a couple points, 24-hours into the storm: Yes,NET developers are great at what they do. Happy Look Like an Idiot on the Internet Day.

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