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Paul Graham on fundraising

Startup Lessons Learned

But the investor is already being compensated for that risk in the low price of the stock, so it is unfair to delay. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down?

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Why vanity metrics are dangerous

Startup Lessons Learned

Sure I can build a stock chart, like this one , that shows that eBays stock price went into a four-year decline immediately after "eBay Inc Acquires Dutch Company Marktplaats.nl." April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Youve just experienced vanity metrics hell. Everyone knows those charts are totally unpersuasive.

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Building a new startup hub

Startup Lessons Learned

They take common stock, not preferred, a fact that the entrepreneurs mentioned to me many times. As a result, for a lot of these companies, Boulder is just a gateway to San Francisco. Thank you @ericries for drastically altering my perception of agile startup Thank you all so much for your kind words. Expo SF (May.

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What is a startup?

Startup Lessons Learned

Contrast this with other high-risk situations, like buying a high-risk stock. Although the specific payoff of a specific risky stock is not known, investing in many such stocks can be modeled accurately. Thus a decent financial advisor can give you a reasonably accurate long-term expected return for a set of risky stocks.

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Out of the Crisis #3, Jen Pahlka and Raylene Yung on creating the U.S. Digital Response

Startup Lessons Learned

She has been an advocate for a more responsive, a more resilient, more agile government. Raylene Yung : I live in San Francisco. We're looking at the city of San Francisco's website or the state of New Jersey's websites and the resources that are made available. Jen Pahlka : Like your Long-Term Stock Exchange.

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Bullpen Capital's Duncan Davidson on VC Funding and "The Era of Cheap"

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In an interview with ReadWriteWeb, Davidson explains how the latest industry to receive the disruption treatment has been the venture capital business itself, with the epicenter of the quake right around San Francisco. When small fluctuations in stock value changed from 12.5¢ down to 1¢, the meaning of small stock got smaller.

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18 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Did Prior to Starting Their Businesses

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They do a great job at building an amazing culture, and they are able to keep a small company feel in terms of speed and agility because they keep the teams small and have basically broken the company up into a whole bunch of companies. Google is in my opinion the best big company to work at.