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In the matrix, the green represents good alignment, the yellow represents ok but keep watch, and the red represents where I see some of the larger disagreements. The matrix explains the basic situation for all 4 combinations so I’ll just focus on the yellow and red...
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Every startup in NYC is looking for developers. Literally: Every. Single. One. And this is a problem. New York City has a shortage of entrepreneurially minded technical talent. It’s not that there’s not enough engineers. Hardly. Columbia, NYU and the rest...
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Video: Patent Absurdity – Dokumentarfilm (28:54) Hat tip to Fred Wilson
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Why Do Harvard Kids Head to Wall Street? By James Kwak That’s the title of a post a couple weeks ago by Ezra Klein, in which he interviewed a friend of his who went to Wall Street after Harvard. Having seen this phenomenon from a couple of different angles, I’d...
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We were in the trenches together. We fought for every customer together. Hell – we fought against the VC’s together! -Mark Suster, Both Sides of the Table. As a first-time founder, there's so much you don't know and don't...
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Zynga founder and CEO Mark Pincus put it very well to me when he said, “I tell entrepreneurs: don't be a victim. It doesn't matter whether you like the venture capitalists or don’t like them, really. Structurally, they have areas of conflict and...
