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What Did I Learn From the First VC Check I Ever Wrote?

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Bank as well as many startups like Gusto and MakeSpace and innumerable massive clients that weren’t on my approved list of clients I could disclose ;) but we partner with Google, Adobe, Salesforce and many others. When you think about what makes Google so valuable?—?it’s Defensible IP becomes insanely valuable?—?particularly

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Some Career Advice for Aspiring Tech CEOs

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This is the narrative that isn’t talked about – but I promise you it is the more common narrative amongst even those that went to top-tier schools, got the right jobs, worked hard in their 20s but didn’t quite join Google, Facebook, Twitter at the right time. She joined Yahoo! I saved my main point for last.

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The Long-Term Value of Loyalty

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I never built Google. But in our first year of sales (and those were really shitty years to be selling software) we sold $2.1 I learned how to establish sales targets and how to manage a sales pipeline. I learned how to do a pipeline review with sales people without getting bullshitted to.

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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

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500 Hats , February 1, 2010 When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication?

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Get Inside the Mind of an Angel Investor

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At Sony, he didn’t feel like he could “steer the ship” and get his ideas heard so he left and started GUBA, GUBA had no seed funding. We discuss Googles plan to pay more to Verizon in order to be on a higher speed connection and get its mobile content to users faster. Before GUBA, Thomas worked at Sony on the VAIO computer.

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