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Paul Graham on fundraising

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What I tell most startups we fund is that if someone reputable offers you funding on reasonable terms, take it. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

Because of IMVUs reputation, Ive also had the opportunity to serve as an advisor or board member for more than a dozen startups. It is encouraging to know someone with your reputation and connections is evangelizing truly valuable information for start-ups. Please share your thoughts to krishna at ntroduction dot com Thanks!

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Some IPO speculation

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Despite Google’s reputation as an innovative company, they seem to me to be counted as one of the last of the old breed. Despite Google’s reputation as an innovative company, they seem to me to be counted as one of the last of the old breed. We are living in a transitional moment. We are living in a transitional moment.

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

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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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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

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The cardinal sin of community management

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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. I agree that listening and communicating is a key to success, but customer development can only do so much. Eric September 13, 2009 11:32 AM Joel Andren said.

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