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Startup Triplets: Startup Advice In Exactly Three Words > 1. Watch your cash. > 2. Pick founders carefully. > 3. Hire generalists early. > 4. Hire specialists later. via onstartups.com This is a good ...
> [](http://waxy.org/2008/11/thefacesofmechanicalturk/) > > Photo Credit: Waxy.org > > Earlier I wrote about my impressions using Mechanical Turk to run the Feedback Army Usability Testing Service. He...
via blip.tv This is a good video, 30 minutes on many topics about how they approach business, and then Q&A for 30 minutes. A worthwhile watch....
> One of the biggest challenges for any investor (regardless of the stage/type of investment they target) and founders alike is hiring great talent. In early stage investing the team may be the single...
> 10 skills I look for before writing a check > > 10 skills I look for before writing a check > > > > by Guest Author on December 7th, 2009 > 43 Comments > > One of the questions I’m most often asked ...
via ladyleet.com This is a good video about analytics and metrics. Perhaps a little slow, but covers a lot of good material....
> November 27, 2005 > ∞ > > Ten Rules for Web Startups > > 113312697558920419 > > Posted at 1:08 PM > > #1: Be Narrow > Focus on the smallest possible problem you could solve that would potentially be...
> 1. BOTH SIDES OF THE TABLE, @msuster: Investor, entrepreneur and blogger Mark Suster is a partner at GRP VC and recently created Launchpad LA – an incubator for Southern California-based companies. ...
> First Pitch Practice > > Announcing the first ever pitch practice session for Pitch Masters Hong Kong. > > The meeting will be on next Wednesday, the 13th of January, 8-9:30pm at the Lan Kwai Fong B...
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> Outside of building companies, reading has been one of my daily passions since I was a young child. Each year, I attempt to read more books than the previous year. This year I read 146. The followin...
Today at Startup Monday we discussed Get Satisfaction – a system for doing customer service for your web service: Here are some pros and cons on using it: Are there any other solutions out there?...
> As a blogger, I spend most of my time writing. But it is time spent on reading that is most satisfying. Here is a short (and by no means a complete) list of ten articles that encapsulate the art of ...
via scobleizer.com I’m watching hundreds of startups, have at least one list of them over on Twitter (500 startups are on that one) and will be starting other lists in 2010 but I’ve been watching the ...
> Not many Silicon Valley companies have gone public in recent years. And as 2009 draws to a close, the past 12 months have followed the same lackluster pattern. > > Through early this week, eight ven...
> [](http://cdixon.org/2009/12/28/whats-the-right-amount-of-seed-money-to-raise/) > > Chris Dixon, serial entrepreneur and seed-stage investor: > > > “… You should try to answer the question: what is ...
> > > There has been lots of talk about how best to pitch. A Harvard Business School professor recently noted how energy and comfort matter, and Keynote is better than PowerPoint. Sarah Tavel with Bes...
> If you’ve been involved in the online marketing field over the last few years you’ve probably already familiarized yourself with your share of acronyms; SEO, PPC, CPA, CTR, ROI and not to mention th...
> Finding the next big thing is probably one of the biggest challenges in the world of startups. A lot of companies, entrepreneurs and VC’s spend a considerable amount of time and money figuring out w...
> The sequence of steps > > Building the machine involves the following steps: > > 1. Identify your buyers > 2. Diagram their buying processes > 3. Add to this diagram the steps you will take to addre...
