Venture Hacks
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07 November 2010
Venture Hacks twittered:
“Don't even bother to try to win a deal where you don't have good personal chemistry with the founder/CEO.” @fredwilson http://vh.co/aPcbPK |
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04 November 2010
Venture Hacks twittered:
Why Andreessen Horowitz Just Raised $650,000,000 http://vh.co/bXx2fR. Very thoughtful post. Good writin—it ain't easy. |
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04 November 2010
Venture Hacks twittered:
My favorite Chrome extension is AutoPatchWork http://vh.co/cPdnXO. Read every post on a blog or paginated website by simply scrolling down. |
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03 November 2010
Venture Hacks twittered:
New blog just for AngelList http://vh.co/csO7Q0. Hosted on Tumblr with a slightly modified "o" theme by inky. |
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03 November 2010
Venture Hacks twittered:
Listen to Venture Hacks posts narrated by professionals at Hear a Blog http://vh.co/cBFmSt. Try it on your blog. /cc @hearablog |
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03 November 2010
Venture Hacks twittered:
This is the coolest app I have ever seen for the iPad http://vh.co/ckM9HZ. It's a notebook. And I hate notebooks. /via @gruber |
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02 November 2010
Venture Hacks twittered:
If you're an angel on @angellist and you haven't logged in for a while, do it now. There are cool things happening there http://angel.co |
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02 November 2010
Venture Hacks twittered:
We've arranged a FoundersCard discount for the Venture Hacks community http://founderscard.com/angellist — normally $500 now $149. I use it. |
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02 November 2010
Venture Hacks twittered:
“I’ve never gone to bed with an ugly woman, but I’ve sure woke up with a few.” – Warren Buffett on bad investments, http://vh.co/cx6XCV |
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02 November 2010
Venture Hacks twittered:
The results of A/B testing startup pitches http://vh.co/9lKSGr. New post on Quora. |
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02 November 2010
Venture Hacks twittered:
Designing the product vs. designing the experience http://vh.co/c7WWsS (pic). /via @jasonputorti |
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30 October 2010
Venture Hacks twittered:
Facebook and Google will be successful with or without you http://vh.co/cltTZE. So why join them? /by @glennkelman |
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27 October 2010
Venture Hacks twittered:
The Valley is currently engaged in an experiment to determine whether there's a limit to the # of valuable startups—see http://vh.co/dkI1eN. |
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27 October 2010
Venture Hacks twittered:
”Angel investor” is now a standard part of the C.V. for young entrepreneurs who've made some money. /cc @msuster @rabois @fredwilson @cdixon |
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27 October 2010
Venture Hacks twittered:
“Do anything you can to slow down hiring.” – Attributed to Peter Thiel |
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27 October 2010
Venture Hacks twittered:
How much money should I raise? http://vh.co/cdYjSd Just started this thread on Quora. |
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26 October 2010
Venture Hacks twittered:
“I choose not to, so I don't.” – Jimmy Darmody on not missing, Boardwalk Empire Season 1 Episode 6, http://vh.co/bSfCIi |
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25 October 2010
Venture Hacks twittered:
“Ideas that spread, win.” – Seth Godin, http://vh.co/aKLcqr |
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24 October 2010
Venture Hacks twittered:
“We have already received 13 inquiries from angels in the first 1.5 hours.” – AngelList user. See the intros coming in http://vh.co/asnQLR. |
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22 October 2010
Venture Hacks twittered:
Rapportive now supports AngelList profiles http://vh.co/9jzD5F. Sweet. Thx to @rahulvohra & @jeffmiller a.k.a. http://angel.co/jeffmiller. |
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22 October 2010
Venture Hacks twittered:
AngelList in real time http://vh.co/c8dleU. See what's happening on AngelList — with or without an account. |
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21 October 2010
Venture Hacks twittered:
“Entrepreneurial profit is the expression of the value of what the entrepreneur contributes to production.” – Schumpeter http://vh.co/8ZQ8Im |
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21 October 2010
Venture Hacks twittered:
“Intros from AngelList were responsible for 54.5% of the $1MM we raised.” – @drodio, http://vh.co/cQXI17 |
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21 October 2010
Venture Hacks twittered:
AngelList now has a feed of recent angel activity http://vh.co/asnQLR. See who's active on AngelList. We stare at this all day. |
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20 October 2010
Venture Hacks twittered:
Are You A Visionary Entrepreneur? http://vh.co/ammqGb. Great examples. /by @eladgil |
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20 October 2010
Venture Hacks twittered:
Don't expect to pay yesterday's prices for exceptional talent when Facebook and Google have to buy whole fucking companies to recruit. |
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20 October 2010
Venture Hacks twittered:
How to do customer development in the lawn mowing business http://vh.co/9ZzNca. Good post. /cc @ericries @sgblank |
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20 October 2010
Venture Hacks twittered:
The Venture Hacks Bible is out http://vh.co/a0Ndzq. Every post in one PDF. 1400 pages. $19. Big free sample. Enjoy with a beverage. |
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20 October 2010
Venture Hacks twittered:
Fake Steve Jobs owns Android http://vh.co/bRGJQp. New mini-post on @quora. Funny as hell. |
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16 October 2010
Venture Hacks twittered:
Why Twitter Is Massively Undervalued Compared To Facebook http://vh.co/ca8Iib. TechCrunch guest post by @ifindkarma and our @naval. |
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14 October 2010
Venture Hacks twittered:
Good rant by Facebook developer Marc Kwiatkowski on how to be a respected developer http://vh.co/bQ183T. |
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14 October 2010
Venture Hacks twittered:
Ground breaking essay on team building http://vh.co/bsj1XO. /cc @stevenewcomb |
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14 October 2010
Venture Hacks twittered:
If you're wondering what happened to This Week In VC, the iTunes URL changed and you need to re-subscribe http://vh.co/diDDXW. /cc @msuster |
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14 October 2010
Venture Hacks twittered:
Junior Venture Hacker http://vh.co/cYjflD (pic). Our new deal guy. And a ladies man. /cc @danshanoff |
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14 October 2010
Venture Hacks twittered:
Awesome essay on building teams by @stevenewcomb http://vh.co/aQKV0i. Put up with the painful UI — it's worth it. |
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13 October 2010
Venture Hacks twittered:
Firehose—big feature on AngelList http://vh.co/cMMsJ4. Investors get unfiltered access to startups that want to meet them. /cc @albertwenger |
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12 October 2010
Venture Hacks twittered:
“We like ventures that are worth succeeding at when they do succeed.” – Khosla Ventures, http://vh.co/aLSiCr |
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12 October 2010
Venture Hacks twittered:
Which startups have been funded via AngelList? http://vh.co/bLLVgm. Plus some thoughts on marketing with Quora. |
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11 October 2010
Venture Hacks twittered:
“Some of the smartest people you work with don’t think like you at all.” – @cindyalvarez, http://vh.co/97DgSM. Great post. |
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11 October 2010
Venture Hacks twittered:
“We haven’t bought any companies yet to get the company. It’s always been… for the people involved.” – Zuckerberg, http://vh.co/cqEVVk |
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11 August 2009
Venture Hacks twittered:
Friends, Nivi needs a favor. Who has the best list of champagnes in New York city? I'm thirsty. |
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04 August 2009
Venture Hacks twittered:
Very thoughtful slides from Netflix on how they manage their business: http://bit.ly/16PPyQ. Compare to http://bit.ly/HBem. |
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04 August 2009
Venture Hacks twittered:
"These things are assembled by seven-year-old children in China. It's a miracle that any of them work at all." – FSJ, http://bit.ly/XnjZ |
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03 August 2009
Venture Hacks twittered:
"She doesn’t hire anyone without taking them out to a meal first because it’s like a little microcosm of life." – Ephron http://bit.ly/fQJEg |
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03 August 2009
Venture Hacks twittered:
"Paint your roof white and you’ll save more carbon than you would driving a Prius." – Vinod Khosla, http://bit.ly/1Q9eaa |
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31 July 2009
Venture Hacks twittered:
"The strongest human instinct is not survival, it is to do what is familiar." – Viginia Satir (?), http://bit.ly/aqcEm |
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29 July 2009
Venture Hacks twittered:
"We never set out to build a world-class engineering-training process. Five Whys simply helped us [build] one." –Ries, http://bit.ly/4ce46 |
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29 July 2009
Venture Hacks twittered:
Wonderful new presentation on Minimum Viable Products from Eric Ries: http://bit.ly/3wVz0. If you don't know MVPs inside-out, watch it now. |
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28 July 2009
Venture Hacks twittered:
Sean Ellis brings us a huge leap in our understanding of startups: http://bit.ly/23hdE. A must-read for all entrepreneurs. |
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23 July 2009
Venture Hacks twittered:
"When people have difficulty achieving regular releases of dopamine… they will often seek a shortcut." – Kurzweil, http://bit.ly/AA2wD |
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22 July 2009
Venture Hacks twittered:
When should I incorporate my company? Yokum has the answer: http://bit.ly/3ttCXd. |
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13 July 2009
Venture Hacks twittered:
"It's really tempting to settle. And it's really embarrassing to not settle." – Mann (Director of Public Enemies), http://bit.ly/XXNcR |
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13 July 2009
Venture Hacks twittered:
"[Flow] is quite simply the most advanced product development book you can buy." – Eric Ries, http://bit.ly/g04WS |
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11 July 2009
Venture Hacks twittered:
"Prioritizing in a vacuum is a leading source of waste." – Eric Ries, http://bit.ly/K6Be1 |
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10 July 2009
Venture Hacks twittered:
"Many founders don't like to hear that visionary customers are as smart, maybe even more so, than they are." – Ries, http://bit.ly/2wcjn6 |
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10 July 2009
Venture Hacks twittered:
What's the legal difference between a startup and a small business? Read this great series of articles: http://bit.ly/b98v4. |
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10 July 2009
Venture Hacks twittered:
Fans of Eric Ries, Steve Blank, customer development, and agile should buy this book now: http://bit.ly/xnzi. Note: it is very challenging. |
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07 July 2009
Venture Hacks twittered:
"I’m in favor of a clean fulfillment center, but why are you cleaning? Why don’t you eliminate the source of dirt?” – http://bit.ly/14hvf |
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06 July 2009
Venture Hacks twittered:
"Constraints matter. You can sit in your office for 16 hours and not write a word." – Merlin Mann, http://bit.ly/nVDKH |
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02 July 2009
Venture Hacks twittered:
Check out VentureBeat's coverage of our recent talk: "Ten unconventional wisdoms for funding startups," at http://bit.ly/JFpaP. |
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30 June 2009
Venture Hacks twittered:
"More troops will be trained as unmanned airplane operators than as fighter or bomber pilots combined." – http://bit.ly/Y4R9R |
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29 June 2009
Venture Hacks twittered:
"The answers are not in the book." – Malcolm McNair, Harvard Business School, http://bit.ly/JF8sQ |
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26 June 2009
Venture Hacks twittered:
"The Apple way: better nothing at all than something less than great." – Gruber, http://bit.ly/DBy2M (Note: This isn't the startup way). |
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22 June 2009
Venture Hacks twittered:
"We compete on cultural fit and shared vision/values… we don't compete on price, terms, 'value add'…" – Fred Wilson, http://bit.ly/OYk2k |
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17 June 2009
Venture Hacks twittered:
"Show success before asking for help." – Derek Sivers, http://bit.ly/cMiKG |
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16 June 2009
Venture Hacks twittered:
Join me at the Iranian election protest in San Francisco's Union Square today 6pm. I hope it goes something like this: http://bit.ly/TxbRj. |
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13 June 2009
Venture Hacks twittered:
Peep Show is on Hulu! If you like The Office, watch Peep Show over and over again: http://bit.ly/1Xc9i. |
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10 June 2009
Venture Hacks twittered:
Zeo closes the sleep feedback loop: http://bit.ly/HAV62. Looks cool and well executed. Check out their board: http://bit.ly/iJ4m5. |
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08 June 2009
Venture Hacks twittered:
"Whenever you use a piece of technology, there is a good chance a little bit of Rajeev Motwani is behind it." – Brin, http://bit.ly/yfmQr |
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08 June 2009
Venture Hacks twittered:
"Our current contractor agreement is one page long. I wrote it then showed it to our lawyers. They said it was fine." – http://bit.ly/hUtz3 |
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04 June 2009
Venture Hacks twittered:
37signals asks, "What does a community manager do?" A great response: http://bit.ly/VzqVT. |
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04 June 2009
Venture Hacks twittered:
"Fourteen years ago I was stabbed in the throat… after my unsuccessful murder I wasn’t unhappy for an entire year." – http://bit.ly/Ea3LK |
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30 May 2009
Venture Hacks twittered:
"Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere." – Regina Brett, http://bit.ly/JHgLe |
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22 May 2009
Venture Hacks twittered:
"Don’t be surprised if a VC asks you for your http://survey.io results." – Sean Ellis, http://bit.ly/2GiSB |
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21 May 2009
Venture Hacks twittered:
Visible Tweets creates beautiful visualizations of your tweets: http://bit.ly/15H9HQ. Wow! Very pretty. |
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21 May 2009
Venture Hacks twittered:
Wow, my FriendFeed subscribers have doubled! Subscribe here http://bit.ly/14x0l. FriendFeed aggregates your tweets, comments, posts… try it! |
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20 May 2009
Venture Hacks twittered:
"I'm going wherever they value loyalty the most." – Dwight Schrute, http://bit.ly/Ngjem (There's a better way: http://bit.ly/UIus.) |
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20 May 2009
Venture Hacks twittered:
Want to see what I'm sharing on Google Reader? Then go here and do not delay: http://bit.ly/tDHpR. Are we having fun yet!? |
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19 May 2009
Venture Hacks twittered:
"Something is elegant if it is two things at once: unusually simple and surprisingly powerful." – Matthew E. May, http://bit.ly/Y52Vi |
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19 May 2009
Venture Hacks twittered:
"Find someone to be successful for." – Obama, http://bit.ly/P0yYF |
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18 May 2009
Venture Hacks twittered:
Use BackType to subscribe to the comments I leave on blogs: http://bit.ly/RmDlM. There's good stuff in there. Einstein would be proud. |
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18 May 2009
Venture Hacks twittered:
Good word: inveigle, 1. to convert, convince or win over with flattery or wiles, 2. to obtain through guile or cunning http://bit.ly/13Zmvg. |
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18 May 2009
Venture Hacks twittered:
Niftynosh looks at their product and wonders "What could we have left out?" http://bit.ly/xgf2J. Learn about the MVP: http://bit.ly/sioJC. |
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18 May 2009
Venture Hacks twittered:
"Steal the logos of Cisco, Google… put them on your strategic partners page and measure the difference in sales volume." http://bit.ly/Niz62 |
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17 May 2009
Venture Hacks twittered:
The Fliggo team releases TwitVid: http://twitvid.io. It's like Twitpic for video. Go @danielrhodes and @chrysb! |
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16 May 2009
Venture Hacks twittered:
I love this word: "whaling". It's phishing for whales (rich people). Learn more: http://bit.ly/YY7Bs. |
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15 May 2009
Venture Hacks twittered:
Wonderful bootstrapping advice from the guys at Urbanspoon (acquired by IAC): http://bit.ly/UNNnF. A lot of it is about eliminating waste. |
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15 May 2009
Venture Hacks twittered:
Enjoy British comedies like The Office? Then get your hands on Peep Show, Alan Partridge, The Thick of It, and Saxondale. What am I missing? |
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15 May 2009
Venture Hacks twittered:
"Bootstrapped companies don't have any pri-twos." – Adam Doppelt, http://bit.ly/UNNnF |
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15 May 2009
Venture Hacks twittered:
"Buy a big whiteboard. Don't use calendaring, bug tracking or project management software. Put it all on the whiteboard" http://bit.ly/UNNnF |
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15 May 2009
Venture Hacks twittered:
Get primary video of Obama via YouTube http://bit.ly/2aBMf, iTunes http://bit.ly/159WNg, or Hulu http://bit.ly/Q5xch. I watch and learn. |
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15 May 2009
Venture Hacks twittered:
"View every interaction as a chance to recruit a new salesman… What can I do here that would be literally remarkable?” http://bit.ly/18KwQy |
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14 May 2009
Venture Hacks twittered:
"I am pleased to report our first failure." – Brant Cooper, http://bit.ly/k9pzg |
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14 May 2009
Venture Hacks twittered:
"If you’re not upsetting yourself, then you’re not challenging your [product/market] assumptions." – Brant Cooper, http://bit.ly/k9pzg |
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14 May 2009
Venture Hacks twittered:
"Social media is all about mixing personal and business. Those who do it best win." – Fred, http://bit.ly/qeiA5. More: http://bit.ly/hrMU6. |
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14 May 2009
Venture Hacks twittered:
Yokum gives us a heads-up on significant tax savings for startups in Obama's budget proposal: http://bit.ly/Mh2IF. Yokum, keep it coming! |
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14 May 2009
Venture Hacks twittered:
"I’ve never given funding to an entrepreneur who had a business plan with him when he walked into my office." – Fagnan, http://bit.ly/M9jyR |
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13 May 2009
Venture Hacks twittered:
"If you reduce every problem to 'somebody needs to try harder,' then you're going to get disappointing results." – RT @corey_ladas |
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13 May 2009
Venture Hacks twittered:
“La vie passera comme un rêve.” (Life goes by in a dream) – Gilles Jacob, http://bit.ly/eJIW9 |
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08 May 2009
Venture Hacks twittered:
Using "5 Whys" to write user stories: http://bit.ly/LsPgk. Cool! Jump to the section titled: "Business value and MMF". RT @TimothyFitz. |