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Interview Dan Dato and Bruce Brown, Upstart.LA

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Bruce Brown: I was working in 1985 writing keyboard and mouse drivers for Windows version 1. Digital Equipment Corporation had a computer called the Rainbow Computer, and I was writing 80x86 assembler for the hardware adaptation layer of Windows for the Rainbow. That was five or six years ago, 2005 or so.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

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The questions that a VC mulls before writing a check are precisely the questions you should be asking yourself. If you create a business and start building products and go into an incubator or raise angel/seed money and don’t think about Market Size and Market Structure I only have one question: Why? Market Size. But you should.

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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

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Chris Devore & Andy Sack have created Founder’s Coop with the goal of funding, incubating & launching more early-stage ventures in Seattle. When I saw what BuddyTV is working on and how long they’ve been the market (since 2005) I realized that this has huge potential to help disrupt the television market.