Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

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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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 2, 2008

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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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2010

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? The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 31, 2009

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. August 12, 2009 3:51 PM Gregsaid.

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OCTOBER 23, 2010

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

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. As a founder of a company, there is nothing more painful than to see your most loyal and devoted customers suffering. " I couldn't agree more.

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