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Alex Payne — Letter To A Young Programmer Considering A Startup

al3x.net
2013-05-30T18:35:20.000Z
self career life advice business startups imported:pinboard

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Maybe your goal is best met by building a stable yet undemanding career that leaves plenty of time for family, friends, community, and self improvement.

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Watch a VC use my name to sell a con. | jwz

www.jwz.org
2011-11-29T22:18:26.000Z
work life startups business jwz vc imported:pinboard

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He's telling you the story of, "If you bust your ass and don't sleep, you'll get rich" because the only way that people in his line of work get richer is if young, poorly-socialized, naive geniuses believe that story! Without those coat-tails to ride, VCs might have to work for a living. Once that kid burns out, they'll just slot a new one in.

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Advice for non-tech entrepreneurs: Become a Minimum Viable Developer « The Wabi-Sabi Start-Up

wabisabistartup.com
2011-11-06T21:52:04.000Z
webdev startups tech business imported:pinboard

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To any non-technical person planning on starting a web company, I have one key piece of advice: Become a Minimum Viable Developer.

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Wait, what does your startup do?

itsthisforthat.com
2011-06-16T23:32:29.000Z
funny generator humor startups imported:pinboard

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PRESS RELEASE: 37SIGNALS VALUATION TOPS $100 BILLION AFTER BOLD VC INVESTMENT - (37signals)

37signals.com
2009-09-25T15:46:10.000Z
awesome business funny startups web2.0 37signals imported:pinboard

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"37signals is now a $100 billion dollar company, according to a group of investors who have agreed to purchase 0.000000001% of the company in exchange for $1."

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Ann Arbor Startup Community Report H1′09 | Ann Arbor Startup Blog

www.annarborstartups.com
2009-07-23T17:15:17.000Z
annarbor michigan startups tech community imported:pinboard

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"Here’s a brief review of the last 6 months of grassroots tech / startup community organizing in Ann Arbor, MI, originally intended for the July 2009 Ann Arbor New Tech Meetup (but foiled by a blown projector bulb)…"

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Kickstarter - Waxy.org

waxy.org
2008-09-24T00:12:34.000Z
kickstart via:waxy startups creative fundraising imported:pinboard

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"Kickstarter aims to let creative people of all kinds — journalists, artists, musicians, game developers, entrepreneurs, bloggers — raise money for their projects by connecting directly with fans, who receive exclusive access and rewards in exchange for their patronage. More than just a fundraising app, Kickstarter's a publishing platform where project creators can communicate with the people that are supporting them. "

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How To Launch Software (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought)

www.aaronsw.com
2008-08-23T03:17:50.000Z
webdev product launches howto startups projectmanagement beta development imported:pinboard

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"Instead what happens when software developers try the Hollywood Launch, and I've seen this many times, is that users indeed do flood to your site on launch day but... Tomorrow, hardly any of those users come back. Your traffic graphs look like the sharpest mountain you've ever seen: a huge climb up and then, almost immediately, a similarly-sized crash back down. ... So what do you do then? Well, you do what you should have done all along: you grow the site."

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Why There Aren't More Googles

www.paulgraham.com
2008-04-16T02:01:12.000Z
startups web20 google imported:pinboard

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"If you want to get all that value, don't destroy the startup after you buy it. Give the founders enough autonomy that they can grow the acquisition into what it would have become."

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You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss

www.paulgraham.com
2008-03-22T03:36:52.000Z
work career jobs startups imported:pinboard

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"The restrictiveness of big company jobs is particularly hard on programmers, because the essence of programming is to build new things."

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Ma.gnolia

ma.gnolia.com
2006-02-09T12:07:17.000Z
startups bookmarking delicious imported:pinboard

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I thought this was supposed to be an enhancement add-on service for del.icio.us. Instead it looks like a prettily-designed yet not obviously useful replacement.

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Process of Forming a Company

www.startupventuretoolbox.com
2005-05-14T00:50:19.000Z
business startups imported:pinboard

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"... there are 14 stages in taking a venture from idea to IPO..."

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