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What Makes an Entrepreneur (4/11) – Resiliency

Both Sides of the Table

We were strong in the UK and they were strong in Germany and Israel (where they had a development office). The agreement was that both sets of investors would fund the combined entity, we would reduce overlapped costs and become a healthier company. We committed to cost focus, customer adoption and delivering our numbers.

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Be Careful not to be Penny Wise, Pound Foolish

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.&# I took it to mean, “making decisions with small amounts of money (pennies) that end up making bad sense for affecting larger amounts of money (pounds, as in Great British Pounds).&# I thought of it as people who cut corners on small costs but paid dearly in terms of lost productivity on expensive staff.

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The Case for Optimism and Risk at Startups

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Entrepreneurs are driven to pursue their passions no matter the personal costs, societal pressure, family head-scratching or financial consequences. Who sat on the sidelines from the comfort of their keyboards risking nothing and criticizing everything. They are driven more by the journey than they are about the destination.

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The Secret History of Minnesota Part 1: Engineering Research Associates

Steve Blank

now fighting Germany, and the Soviet Union looming as a potential adversary U.S. code breaking would grow to 20,000 people working on breaking the codes of Germany, Japan and the Soviet Union. Costing $250,000 ($3.2 Each ATLAS I cost the NSA $1.3 ATLAS II cost the NSA $2.3 By the end of WWII, with the U.S.

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Please go see “Waiting for Superman.” Here’s Why:

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He gave a simple graph that showed that 4 years of incarceration costs tax payers approximately $130,000 per inmate, which is more than it would cost to educate that same person in a basic private school for the entirety of k-12. I don’t believe in long-term welfare because they destroy incentives.

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Revisiting Paul Graham’s “High Resolution” Financing

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Legal costs of early stage financing should be cheap – this is one of the final remaining arguments for convertible debt but even Paul acknowledges that this is no longer necessarily the case: “Different terms for different investors is clearly the way of the future. That’s OK, but it gives you a max (read: price!)

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10 Companies Want To Show You The Money

YoungUpstarts

Make extra cash to help with those expensive holiday costs and maybe even help you put some money back in your wallet so you don’t start the New Year off broke! by Pabla Ayala, cofounder of pFunk Media Is your holiday gift-giving list becoming longer and pricier than your current wallet can handle?