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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

In addition, founders thinking about starting a company can be overwhelmed by choice, as there are so many problems to tackle with technology, but it could be comforting to know that investors are interested in those areas in the first place.

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

Both Sides of the Table

Advertising has driven the majority of Internet innovation. so compelling (other than the fact that the CEO Sean Rad is a great young technology leader and his advisers – Brian Norgard , Dan Gould and Evan Rifkin - are some of the guys I respect most in the LA tech market.). was the “static&# web.

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Touching the Hot Stove – Experiential versus Theoretical Learning.

Steve Blank

It took me 8 startups and 21 years to get it right, (and one can argue success was due to the Internet bubble rather then any brilliance.) No internet, no blogs, no books on startups, no entrepreneurship departments in universities, etc. Hope to audit/attend your class in the fall.

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

So they insist on having the final say on when a feature is "done" enough to show to customers. Heres my diagnosis of his problem: He has some automated tests, but his team doesnt have a continuous integration server or practice TDD. In companies with a strong engineering culture, the engineers pick quality.

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What do I see in venture through 2010???

BeyondVC

As an aside, I worked with JEGI two years ago and they did a fantastic job helping us sell Moreover Technologies to Verisign. They understand the media and online world, are well connected, and work diligently to get the job done. Companies are bought and not sold.

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How to Hire for Sweat Equity…

www.drowningamerican.com

Neither Pablo or I have a technical background and therefore needed someone to build our product. Here is the original post: Early Stage Web Application Start-Up Seeking Developer/Designer. Our application tool will be free and will immediately compete with Peterson’s, Kaplan, Princeton Review, and other smaller players.

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Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice - Discussion

news.ycombinator.com

You show this by giving completely generic arguments to one line sentences from his post. If youre in a market like pharmaceuticals, where all user testing can be done in a lab, execution in a bubble makes sense, but if your startup is a web product it sounds like hubris. Ideas are worthless when theyre another spin on a web 2.0

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