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The Misstep of Quora and The Importance of Trust Amongst Your Community

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If you’re a developer you ought to be asking yourself the question. Which brings me to Quora. I read this story on Ivan Kirigin’s blog that shows that Quora was posting which articles you’re reading to other people without your consent. Would they be angry? But many implicit actions are NOT fair play.

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How To Write An Effective Answer On Quora: Communications 101

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I have answered a number of questions on Quora and I am generally pleased if a handful of people “vote up+ answer on Quora?”. John Greathouse , Entrepreneur, Investor, Professor and Freshman In The School Of Life. I write a bit more about how entrepreneurs can protect their ideas here: Spilling The Beans.

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Entrepreneurs Need The Confidence, Courage And Conviction To Be Unreasonable

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Entrepreneurs must be unreasonable in order to dismiss the status quo and create novel solutions. However, an irrational lack of reasonableness will sabotage an entrepreneur’s efforts. Entrepreneurs who have no basis for their confidence are doom to failure. Quora, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc. Mcintyre, Philosopher.

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How I Got the Monkey Off My Back – Today Was a Good Day

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I spent my first year developing proprietary deal flow and learning the business and then the Sept 2008 / Lehman Bros collapse / financial meltdown happened. In 2010 somebody posed the question on Quora, “Is Mark Suster a Successful Venture Capitalist?” This is what I wrote on that Quora answer from Sept 2010.

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Skate Where the Puck is Going

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Anyone who works in the venture business or frankly just lives in Silicon Valley will be used to hearing a buzz word rise up out of nowhere to capture the technology zeitgeist and find its way into every entrepreneur’s product development plan or every aspiring entrepreneur’s pitch deck.

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Is Going for Rapid Growth Always Good? Aren’t Startups So Much More?

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Founders will continue to take the “growth at all options” path that leads to privacy & trust creep at places like Quora. And so do entrepreneurs who are quick to pivot to new businesses or to sell in an acquihire. Some entrepreneurs can make a dent in a smaller world. Investors seem to think this way these days.

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9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month

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The part of the movement that resonates the most with me (in my words) is that entrepreneurs should keep their capital expenditures really low while they’re experimenting with their product and determining whether there is a large market for what they do. This benefits you, the entrepreneur. It takes options off of the table.