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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. It costs not just the time of the actual meeting, but the time getting there and back, and the time preparing for it beforehand and thinking about it afterward. 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. Comprehensive means it has to address all aspects of a startups life: marketing and product development, especially. 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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Finding Your Co-Founders

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sites from scratch - Experienced with the majority of the social api’s (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Meebo, PayPal, Flickr) - Experience managing offshore dev teams - Most recently a Director of Product Development at an early stage funded startup [link] meeblog » Blog Archive » starting up: finding your co-founders [.]

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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. People felt themselves to be subject to censorship, a perception that continues to this day. Eric, people were PANICKING. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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