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Why Email May Be Draining Your Company’s Productivity

Both Sides of the Table

That great productivity drain that we somehow all buy into. about their marathon 4-hour sessions to get to zero inbox or somebody else claiming email bankruptcy ( definition if you don’t know it already ). Here’s the thing: I actually do care about responding to people. ” Brilliant! . ” Brilliant!

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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

Both Sides of the Table

Danielle goes through some commentary from Bill Gurley, Fred Wilson and Marc Andreessen about burn rate and then goes on to discuss her own burn rate and others publicly weigh in. We’re going to start aggressively spend money on marketing our product. But what IS the right amount of burn for a company?

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Interview: Paige Craig, CEO BetterWorks

InfoChachkie

Play it in the background while you otherwise remain productive (or listen to it while you update your FB page, your call). 5) When I interviewed people at my past startups, I rejected them if they asked me about our dental plan, as true entrepreneurs don’t care about such pedestrian benefits. In the early days, do it yourself.

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Interview with Ilya Pozin, Cofounder of Pluto TV

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We caught up with Pluto TV's co-founder and Chief Growth Officer, Ilya Pozin , to hear about how the company started, and its path to acquisitionas well as to get some tips on startup success. We were building it about a year before we launched. How did the acquisition come aboutwere you looking for a buyer at the time?

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Gene Dolgoff's 3D Vision: Using Crowdfunding To Turn the World 3D

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Since Dolgoff is raising money for his 2D-to-3D startup via Fundable, we thought it would be interesting to hear about the project, and how he ended up turning to Fundable. Tell us about your project? Because we want to get into production, marketing, and sales, right now we're listing on Fundable.com.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

He’d been working at a well-funded startup for about a year and had come to terms with the fact that the startup was really a pretty dumb idea. Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent. We'll be your hosts for a three-part series about the use of MongoDB here at Etsy. Lots to learn from him. Stay Tuned.

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Interview with Richard Sussman, NordicEye

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We talked with Richard about NordicEye's $30M fund, its interests in Los Angeles, and why a Nordic venture capital firm has its eyes on Southern California's technology startups. What's wonderful about this new fund, is we literally started in April of 2017. The issue there is you're not hearing about it until too late.