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Ten Startup Tips From Amazon Founder, Jeff Bezos

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Although the article is informative, it is the accompanying sidebar that has remained with me over the succeeding years. Establish A High Hiring Bar – You’re Creating An Enduring Culture. “I’d I’d rather interview 50 people and not hire anyone than hire the wrong person.”. We didn’t give up.”. “

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Interview with Dave Fink and Jonathan Neddenriep, Postie

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Los Angeles-based Postie (postie.com), backed by Bonfire Ventures and Crosscut Ventures, is applying machine learning and other techniques to direct mail. If you seen the entrepreneurs that disrupt big categories, they came at it from a very different approach, which is not iterative, but is transformative. What is Postie?

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The End of the Mexican Road

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I learned many of my negotiation techniques through experience. And negotiation technique is one of the few areas on my MBA that was truly new information to me by the time I had attended. We like to short-hand it, as in, “What’s our BATNA?” We all think we’re good at them. Getting to Yes.

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Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

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I continue to collect great content that is the intersection of startups, products, online and technology. Want to know, for example, why Foursquare uses MongoDB to store check-in information? but: Something is Still Missing. When It’s Darkest Men See the Stars - Steve Blank , November 24, 2010 When It’s Darkest Men See the Stars.

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Infiltrating Big Dumb Companies: In Through The Out Door

InfoChachkie

Entrepreneurs constantly have to capture the attention of larger companies. These people are employed to keep entrepreneurs out, maintain order and reduce disruptions. These people are employed to keep entrepreneurs out, maintain order and reduce disruptions. I do not endorse all of the following techniques.

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The Best VC Meetings are Debates not Sales

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People are much more likely to buy into you as a person and us as a firm when they’ve been involved in a discussion with you about their problems, your solutions, who else has been using your product, etc. This is part of my blog series “ Pitching a VC.&#. They might even like to challenge some of your assumptions.