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Venture Capital Q&A Session

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If you’re working at a startup and the founding team is promising that they’ll “get around to creating an employee stock option plan&# soon – demand it now. We told the horror story of the company that originally owned the URL groupon.com and lost it due to not having a trademark. Minutes 11-16 in the video. <<

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On Leadership, Teams, Success & Happiness

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I honestly believe I learned more by rising up the ranks and becoming the president of my fraternity than I did in the class room reading about supply & demand curves in economics. She’s protecting them from the most intellectually demanding activities. You have beautifully executed software. Most people work in groups.

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Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

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That is excluding a single line of code or paying any salaries. Imagine that you can develop software on your local computer but the entire service is delivered virtually through a partner in the same way people consumer energy with all of the scale benefits that go with that. .&# An early star in this category has been RightScale.

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