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9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month

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The part of the movement that resonates the most with me (in my words) is that entrepreneurs should keep their capital expenditures really low while they’re experimenting with their product and determining whether there is a large market for what they do. I believe that over capitalizing companies too early often favors the VC.

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The Long-Term Value of Loyalty

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My company had raised venture capital in April 2001 but we were told that there may never be any more coming. I never built Google. I learned how to establish a technology center in India and how to manage disparate development teams (and this has drive my thoughts also about what does NOT work.).

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

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Do you see product managers as a hindrance to software development? Companies historically have structured their development teams in different ways. Mark: Google had trouble dealing with customers and contracts because they historically were so engineering driven. The role of Product Managers at Technology Companies.