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Company Offering $10K for a 30 Day Phone Detox, Apply Now

Tech.Co

There are just five days left to enter the digital detox competition set up by Icelandic Yogurt company Siggi’s Dairy, which has pledged to give selected contestants $10,000 to spend an entire month “detoxing” without a smartphone or social media. You’ll then be taken through to an online form.

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Switching costs: A competitive advantage?

Berkonomics

Email readers, continue here…] Recently, I received a hand-written letter from two co-CEOs of a company I had helped with a few hours of time. Pull out a piece of stationery that had been sitting unused for over a decade and write in longhand? The post Switching costs: A competitive advantage? What to do?

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Why I Look for Obsessive and Competitive Founders

Both Sides of the Table

This blog started from a series of conversations I found myself having over and over again with founders and eventually decided I should just start writing them.It He wants to compete to be the lead drummer in the competitive ensemble and study under Terence, an obsessive instructor who is hell bent on winning competitions for the school.

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What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?

Both Sides of the Table

<== Our conclusion was that this isn’t a temporary blip that will swiftly trend-back up in a V-shaped recovery of valuations but rather represented a new normal on how the market will price these companies somewhat permanently. First in late-stage tech companies and then it will filter back to Growth and then A and ultimately Seed Rounds.

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Don’t Underrate The Value Of A Startup Plan Document

Startup Professionals Musings

If you don’t have the time to write things down, or your writing skills leave something to be desired, don’t be afraid to get some help. No executive I know writes all his own contracts, but every smart one owns every one that is written for him, and understands every element.

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Interview with Fariborz Maseeh, Maseeh Entrepreneurship Prize Competition

socalTECH

Last week, the University of Southern California 's Viterbi School of Engineering announced that it had established a new, business plan competition, the Maseeh Entrepreneurship Prize Competition ([link] specifically aimed at students in the engineering school. Why a business plan competition, and why in engineering school?

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Startup CTO or Developer

TechEmpower

Increasing competitive advantage? The role of a CTO varies as the company matures. And you certainly don’t want to be the company that spends time and money building something you could have picked up off the shelf. Please write us at blog@techempower.com ! What does it mean to be a CTO for a startup?

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