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6 Startup Lessons Learned By Passionate Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, most people believe that Bill Gates started with a simple purchase of a base operating system leading to MS-DOS and Microsoft, but Mars points out that Bill spent thousands of hours in some computer rooms working on software day and night. Not a single one of us has the bandwidth to build a solution and a business alone.

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Come Join Our Investment Team in NYC!

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You will spend the rest of your time working alongside the partners throughout the investment process – analyzing investment opportunities, assisting in market research and diligence, and post-investment portfolio support. All applications will be reviewed confidentially. You will be based in the NYC office. How To Apply .

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Why Lawyers Don’t Run Startups

Steve Blank

After being in business for all of seven months, one of our first deals at Epiphany was with a software company called Visio , (now owned by Microsoft.) Some of them would have limited our ability to sell to other software companies. I remember when I encountered bullet #1 on Walkers list. You Can’t Sign This Deal.

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We’re Hiring for Our Investment Team at NextView’s NYC Office

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You will spend the rest of your time working alongside the partners throughout the investment process – analyzing investment opportunities, assisting in market research and diligence, and post-investment portfolio support. . All applications will be reviewed confidentially. You will be based in the NYC office. How To Apply .

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Framework Benchmarks Round 17

TechEmpower

We want an official Round to have a solid showing by as many frameworks as feasible given limited personnel bandwidth. As you review Round 17 results, you'll notice that Postgres database tests are stratified—there are groups of test implementations that seem implausibly faster than other test implementations.

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6 Myths On Starting A New Business That Can Kill You

Startup Professionals Musings

Starting a new business is fraught with challenges, and none of us has the bandwidth to kill them all. For example, if you start a new business with a software product you developed, you really need to know the basics of marketing and finance, but you will probably never be the expert in marketing and finance you require.

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Organization That Failed to Innovate – Avoid Their Fate

ReadWriteStart

Sharing the stories of organizational failure due to a lack of enterprise innovation can create a sense of urgency in employees and make them understand the stakes. Multiple tools and technology available can enable innovation in organizations, no-code software development being a pioneer in them. Let’s dive into these stories.