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Why Lawsuits Are On the Rise at Startups and What To Do About It

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As I write these words I already imagine my next deposition in which I’m asked to read this out loud. I started writing about problems when founding a startup years ago but the problem has gotten worse. Be very careful with everything you write in an email or send in a text message. *. Lawsuits. It is insanely common.

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What Do LPs Think of the Venture Capital Markets for 2016?

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We All Know That Dollars into Venture Have Gone Up … As a starting point, we know that the dollars into venture have steadily rebounded to pre great-recession levels, with just under $30 billion committed to US technology venture capital in 2015. …But LPs Have Been Putting Out More Money Than They Are Getting Back.

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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

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I taught a somewhat crazy course about writing and deploying a scalable website in Ruby on Rails and deploying it in EC2. But throughout the transition I had my safety net. 5) It is 2015. I’m sure we missed out on a number of great people, but the net effect is that everyone in the team is focused on the same mission.

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Report: The Bay Area Isn’t Bleeding Tech Workers After All

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In 2015, a worker in the San Francisco Bay Area earning $100,000 a year would need to put their entire post-tax salary into renting a three-bedroom apartment. Areas such as Oakland and San Francisco saw rent increases as high as 40 percent between 2015 and 2017. But, you’d be wrong, according to a new report out from LinkedIn.

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VC Confessions: We Passed On Twilio’s Seed Round

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Twilio has now raised around $235 million, including a July 2015 round totaling $130 million. The net was that 's app is too sophisticated for the five verbs. <Note: Exceptions exist, such as the highly self-aware Paige Craig, who recently described how he missed out becoming Airbnb's first investor. com> 4/25/08.