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Playing Startup

Agile VC

We started working nights and weekends in late 2002 when some of the founding team were wrapping up their prior day jobs and then everybody was full time on LinkedIn by January 2003. Additionally, a lot of people today work in startups or want to work in startups or want to be founders, which overall is a great thing.

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What the AngelList Debate Means for the Future of Startup Investing

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Chris McCann is the co-founder of StartupDigest , the members-only guide to the tech startup world. Dave argues that instead of providing connections you should let founders do 95% of the work and offer support with operational areas of expertise like design, data and distribution. AngelList is a community.

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Playing Startup

View from Seed

We started working nights and weekends in late 2002 when some of the founding team were wrapping up their prior day jobs and then everybody was full time on LinkedIn by January 2003. Additionally, a lot of people today work in startups or want to work in startups or want to be founders, which overall is a great thing.

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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

Austin Startup

It seems like every day there is a new headline about an exceptional startup founder, investor, or corporate headquarters moving to Texas. Our community colleges are excellent as well, including the Alamo Colleges, Austin Community College, the Dallas College and the Lone Star Community College. Joe Lonsdale. Jim Breyer.

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Playing Startup

Agile VC

We started working nights and weekends in late 2002 when some of the founding team were wrapping up their prior day jobs and then everybody was full time on LinkedIn by January 2003. Additionally, a lot of people today work in startups or want to work in startups or want to be founders, which overall is a great thing.

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Behind Every Great Product

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However, the Mac community was also very vocal, with passionate fans of their platform, and is also important to note that this community had very little love for Microsoft. They had a couple experienced co-founders, including the now legendary Reed Hastings, but the problem was that they were stuck at about 300,000 customers.

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Strategy Roundtable: Professional Investors Do Not Invest In $20 Million Markets

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Chak has been able to get a couple of distributors in Singapore to buy his greeting cards designed by a community of artists, but is struggling to find a steady, repeatable model. Raymond has built a nice business through efficient distribution deals and will do about $250,000 in revenue this year.