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Startup Tips From College Dropouts: Zuckerberg, Jobs, Gates, Dell, Ellison, Branson and Disney

InfoChachkie

HIGHEST DEGREE OBTAINED BY AMERICA'S 400 RICHEST PEOPLE Source: Forbes Magazine, Jan 2012. Facebook had to resolve expensive and time-consuming litigation related to promising early hires senior positions and substantial equity stakes. No one ever accused Mr. Gates of being a master programmer. I got hopelessly lost.”.

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10 Reasons Why Capital Shouldn't Make Or Break Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

By John Williams Fast Company magazine recently reported that PayPal founder Paul Thiel is giving away $100,000 to twenty-four young men and women to finance startup businesses. An inflated sense of financial well-being can result in sloppy budgeting and accounting as you write checks here and there without pause.

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Some Thoughts on Leadership Going into 2016

Both Sides of the Table

You don’t have unlimited equity to dole out. ” They prefer to sit in front of a computer doing spreadsheets or coding or writing emails and working on marketing materials than they do investing time in human relationships. They respond to email. I wanted to just write. I like writing.

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

SoCal CTO

thought it would be helpful to put some of my thoughts into a blog post and hopefully spur some conversation in the comments and over email. We had to write a CRM to keep track of them all. equity debate. More tiers = more complication = more confusion. What’s going to happen in the future?' Have convertible notes really won?

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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

Both Sides of the Table

He’s been steadily emailing me for the past 18 months with ideas for local entrepreneurs I “have to meet&# and has been egging me on to spend more time in Seattle. I’ve often talked about the NY advantage of having the NY Times, WSJ, Silicon Alley Insider, New York Magazine and even the editor of TechCrunch based there.