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How Open Should a Startup CEO be with Staff?

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It’s a hard topic to write about because it’s almost an accepted norm that total transparency is good. But I’m working on a large team of people trying to figure out how to make micro improvements to a paid-search algorithm. They told you, “Yeah, man, I’ll gladly write the first $250,000.

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

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Summary notes, as always, provide below. It was a pleasure to write them myself. He invented the category of sponsored search. So he launched a company with exclusively paid search. Users would know exactly how much was paid for each click. All of that are in this week’s episode of This Week in VC.