www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

Want to start a startup? The bad news is that I got over 100 other responses listing thesurprises they encountered. My relationship with my cofounder went from just being friends to seeing each other all the time, fretting over the finances and cleaning up shit. Get funded by Y Combinator. What hadnt Iwritten about yet?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, September 18, 2008 Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? Some might look at my tiny "5 readers" badge and laugh. If your subject is willing to answer, you can keep going, following the chain of early-adoption back to someone who is likely to want to early-adopt you. can I talk to them?"

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Small Business Success | Mondays and Thursdays. The Goods: Your Business Toolbox | Thursdays. Todays Small Business News | Daily. Entrepreneur news from reporter Eric Markowitz. Writing A Business Plan. Running A Home-Based Business. Naming a Business. Financing a Small Business.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

Want to start a startup? A typical startup goes throughseveral rounds of funding, and at each round you want to take justenough money to reach the speed where you can shift into the nextgear. I dont mean to suggest that our investors were nothing but a dragon us. Apply for funding by March 3. Few startups get it quite right.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 28, 2009

The most common reaction I get is something like, "that sounds great - for your business - but that could never work for my application." That mission critical customers wont accept new releases on a continuous basis. Most customers of most products hate new releases. Its likely that the new release will contain new bugs.

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Small Business Labs. Tracking and Forecasting the Trends Impacting the Future of Small Business. Welcome to Small Business Labs. Small Business Labs, from Emergent Research , covers the key social, technology and business trends impacting small business. Research Brief - Small Business Credit Outlook.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Many of them have really cool products shipping or about to be released, and I wholeheartedly agree with my friends at the iFund that the next generation of applications is going to be amazing. My home screen is a giant mess, because installing apps is just so much fun. Ive also been playing around with the App Store.

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blog.chrisomeara.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

A CEO friend of mine recently asked my opinion about Tony Karrers Startup CTO or Developer article. From a development and operations perspective, the common element in successful software businesses seems to be the technical leader. My colleagues and I interact with startups a fair amount because were consultants.

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www.paulgraham.com

AUGUST 1, 2008

Then someone discovers how to make them cheaply; many more get built; and as a result they can be used in new ways. Lots of Startups So my first prediction about the future of web startups is pretty straightforward: there will be a lot of them. We could hire employees, but we want to be forced to figure out how to scale investing.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Tweet View Comments Sarah Lacy Feb 19, 2010 Pepperdine has a new study out that attempts to shed some light on the clubby, shadowy world of private finance. Researchers polled experts in lending, mezzanine capital, private equity, venture capital and private businesses themselves. A lot of the stats weren’t surprising.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Financial News. My Journal. Message Center ( new). From time to time, we will send you e-mail announcements on new features and special offers from The Wall Street Journal Online. Personalize your own news page. People In The News. Dont show me this message again. Loading… New York.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 4, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, March 4, 2009 Lo, my 2295 subscribers, who are you? Since my subscriber count has doubled again (thanks!), it seemed time to return to the subject of investigating who my customers are. Before I go any further, heres the link to the new survey.

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cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

My posterous blog. My Hunch Recommendations. A frequent question entrepreneurs have when they are just starting their company is: how secretive should I be about my idea? My answer: you should talk about it to almost anyone who will listen. cdixon.org - chris dixons blog. Follow @cdixon. cdixon.org contents.

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pandodaily.com

JULY 18, 2012

I’ve never spent so much of my day feeling like a failure no matter how hard I work. And the satisfaction of not only paying my own salary– which I’ve done for years on various book projects– but paying the salaries of others. Follow PandoDaily: Search. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Recently I noticed a most popular section and was laughing at some of my answers. Dear Dan, when I grow up I want to be just like you. What is the best advice you can give for finding a business partner? Don’t quickly choose any business partner. Maple Butter. Search for: Videos. I love startups. Cause your scared.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

To my surprise, VC? Based on my experience as the co-founder of StartupDigest , I believe that the startup investing industry is quickly being organized more like the public investing market, and what we are seeing now is a battle of two major investment theses: the index approach and the concentrated investment approach. social proof?

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 16, 2006

however, public SaaS companies like Concur, Saba, Taleo, LivePerson and Ultimate are growing 50-100% per year and trading at an average 5x trailing revenue multiples (I excluded salesforce leading the pack with 9x!) He is a great speaker and I enjoyed the speech, but after 40mn, I was still waiting to hear about the future of software.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Monday edit : Skip my post and read this one instead. But my coders will beat up your coders, any day of the week. Indeed, I spend about half my time on it, while Lisa spends about all hers. Update: The end is near, Expensify is hiring a.NET programmer! Learn more… Saturday edit: Wow, quite a response to this.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

It is the first in a series of posts he’s writing about the decisions a young entrepreneur needs to make when she/he is first starting a business. If you want to waste nine months trying to raise VC money for that idea, great. I want to get that last promotion at my current company first! How To Get There.

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www.redmonk.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

A whole new industry ecosystem is growing around Hadoop, Apache’s MapReduce implementation. Of course we’re also seeing innovation from the new hotness – thus Erlang underpins CouchDB and RIAK. The Apache Software Foundation can hardly keep up with the pipeline of cool new technologies. What about HBase?

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www.redmonk.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

A whole new industry ecosystem is growing around Hadoop, Apache’s MapReduce implementation. Of course we’re also seeing innovation from the new hotness – thus Erlang underpins CouchDB and RIAK. The Apache Software Foundation can hardly keep up with the pipeline of cool new technologies. What about HBase?

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www.smashingmagazine.com

MAY 5, 2011

In this article, we’d like to present a couple of new ideas that might be useful for your next designs. Instead of hassling people for a user name when they sign up, you might want to consider asking afterwards. Most designers are familiar with the conventional ways. The reason is understandable.

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www.startupsmart.com.au

MARCH 8, 2011

Home Planning Business ideas Business planning How to start a. This is not an easy transition to manage – how do you work and at the same time develop a business? Sentralize.com develops websites around a theme that captures the zeitgeist – for example the business developed a site called obama4.me,

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dondodge.typepad.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing Thoughts on business and technology Home Archives Profile Subscribe About Me « Boston VCs gets first look at Y Combinator Demo Day | Main | Digg-nation is HUGE! VCs and Angels can add tremendous value to a growing company, and it is in their best interest to work hard for you.

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semanticuniverse.com

MARCH 9, 2010

When we speak of technology adoption, we are referring to the uptake of a new technology by a large group of people. The Semantic Web standards - RDF, RDFS, OWL, SPARQL, and SKOS are new technologies whose proponents hope will be adopted on a wide scale. But for adoption, simplicity usually dominates.

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