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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

The browser and thus the WWW and the first Internet businesses were born circa 1994–95 and there was a golden period where anything seemed possible. I have often thought that creative endeavors where one has a quick turn-around between idea and realization of one’s work as one of the more fulfilling experiences in life. It was 1991.

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What To Do When Your Trusted Employees Defect To The Competition

YoungUpstarts

But even worse than the cost of recruiting someone new to fill the vacancy when a key employee leaves, there’s one big, looming worry that’s sure to ratchet your anxiety up to critical levels: “She knows everything!” Like it or not, employee mobility has just become a fact of life.

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The Coming Chip Wars

Steve Blank

Apple iPhones), high-performance computing platforms, PC’s, tablets, servers, base stations and game consoles, Internet-connected devices like smart wearables, digital consumer electronics, cars, and almost every weapon system built in the 21st century. The chips that TSMC makes are found in almost everything: smartphones (i.e.

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Fear is the mind-killer

Startup Lessons Learned

As the product matured, they were able to ratchet up the quality to prevent regression on features that had been truly embraced by their customers. Starting instead from a position where feedback cycle time is the priority and allowing quality to ratchet up as the product matures provides a more natural lead in to continuous deployment.

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Inspired Ideas to Boost Employee Productivity During the Holidays

Up and Running

When it’s possible to do the bulk of your holiday shopping on the internet, who wouldn’t be tempted to do it 24/7 and get it out of the way? Ratchet up your company’s social networking posts. This is a really important way to manage productivity during winter holidays, because it’s so pervasive in the workplace.

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Startup Outlook from Silicon Valley Bank

Growthink Blog

On Friday Silicon Valley Bank released a survey of 375 executives at startup technology companies in the 4 core venture capital investment sectors – Software/Internet, Hardware, Life Science, and Cleantech. Here is what they found: Tech. Are Bullish. Our outlook is solely dependent on the FDA.

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Lessons Learned: The hacker's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

It also helps ratchet down the pressure, since so many of the interruptions that plague the typical hacker are actually the same bugs recurring over and over. Whats funny is that I make my job look so easy that the CTO never really thought about hiring someone to help me out. (Id Take a look and let me know what you think.