venturebeat.com

MARCH 8, 2011

Most people start their first company while they still have a day job. You have a job, so you don’t require explosive growth to be successful anyway. Remember, your immediate goal isn’t to make millions of dollars, it’s to build a business just solid enough to quit your day job. You don’t need funding.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

As we were out looking for our Series B round, our company had gotten the attention of “name of big VC firm here” who wanted a play in enterprise software. During the due-diligence process, I sat down with one of the partners who pulled out a set of slides and asked me: ”Have you seen these?” Welcome to the Internet bubble.)

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mashable.com

JUNE 8, 2010

One effective strategy is to recruit job seekers who already have their hearts set on working for a startup. The Internet can be a tremendous resource in finding the right people to build your team. Because there’s a fee to post jobs and resumes, there’s not much spam. Searching for team members is easy.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 7, 2009

I ruffled a few feathers with my recent post The Software Product Myth. The unrest surrounded my statement that making $2500/month from your software product wouldn’t allow you to quit your day job. As I said in The Five Minute Guide to Becoming a Freelance Software Developer , an accountant is not an optional expense.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 28, 2013

They use geo/ip to work out where I am. But when it comes to the web, they all seem to leave their creativity, passion, and brilliant minds at home. Why leave your passion behind when it comes to the web? the reviews. Read their invitation to get you to write a review. Then some reviews (they float by).

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Instead of spending 4 years at university, I spend 4 years starting 2 internet companies that failed. What is the first step in creating an internet-based business (After planning) ? Don’t wait to fill the void before letting him go (but obviously get all the code / usernames / password). The way I do it. Build something.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

In fact, I am convinced that if you could find some of IMVU’s earliest adopters, they would say something like this: “sure, those guys at IMVU HQ were helpful in writing code and stuff, but in the end they were just the hired help. It was really the community who built that product.&# It is a stage that must be outgrown.

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Hacker News new | comments | ask | jobs | submit login Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice. Go ahead,” Ford commanded, “and stay on the job until you succeed no matter how much time is required.” -- drostan 215 days ago | link. We not only told everyone what we did, we posted the source code and the blueprints online.

Stealth 41

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

I have a webcam and a headset, and also connected all the various messaging apps into the web browser and the desktop which I highly recommend. I was developing a mesh network that I envisioned being useful in the developing world and for the internet of things. I don't really have to use my phone during the day.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 14, 2017

But when you are thinking about writing a book, you’re thinking about what ideas you want to get out, what IP you have, what methodologies you have and you want to get out there because you know it’s good information. But mid way through it, in fact about 45 days from the manuscript due date for the entire book I had this ah ha!

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 7, 2017

It is a service that provides simple and private web browsing. What’s really changed is you kind of think of information before whether you are browsing the web and maybe information’s being collected by one source like a Facebook or google et cetera, would be collecting about your browsing going about the web.

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