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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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How to Fund a Startup

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I wassurprised recently when I realized that all the worst problems wefaced in our startup were due not to competitors, but investors.Dealing with competitors was easy by comparison. Then you can gradually transformyourself from a consulting company into a product company, and haveyour clients pay your development expenses.

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Out of the Crisis #9, the founders of Frontline Foods on the moral imperative to support frontline workers at scale

Startup Lessons Learned

When is our society going to start treating nurses with the respect they're due? New York, of course, being one of the epicenters for the pandemic in our country, but other cities being hit very hard, New Orleans and Detroit, and what's happening in Mississippi right now. So I think it was a shift when we had three code events.

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The Evolving Economics of the App

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