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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). While an undergraduate at Yale Unviersity, he co-founded Catalyst Recruiting. October 13, 2008 6:47 PM Luke G said. Eric, love the blog.

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Some IPO speculation

Startup Lessons Learned

Despite Google’s reputation as an innovative company, they seem to me to be counted as one of the last of the old breed. When private capital is available in sufficient quantities to satisfy investor and founder liquidity needs, why go IPO? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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A new way to recruit for (and find) startup jobs

Startup Lessons Learned

Need to build a good reputation system to rate both the startups and candidates, and then a matching engine that can make the matching. This is a machine learning problem and it can be solved as long as some relevant signals can be captured in the reputation rating. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Paul Graham on fundraising

Startup Lessons Learned

What I tell most startups we fund is that if someone reputable offers you funding on reasonable terms, take it. Its to everyones advantage to let the world think the founders thought of everything. I say this as a founder: the contribution of founders is always overestimated. Fair or not, investors do it if you let them.

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The cardinal sin of community management

Startup Lessons Learned

When IMVU instigated a policy of banning users from voicing their thoughts, however, even more damage was done to the company's reputation in the eyes of many. People felt themselves to be subject to censorship, a perception that continues to this day. That is what company founders and staff do not get. We are partners.

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