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Most Common Early Start-up Mistakes

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If you live somewhere where this is the case you’re better off discussing with your employer that you may from time-to-time work on private projects outside of work hours and you want their clearance in writing that this is OK. If not, at least find someone really technical that you trust to help act as an adviser to you.

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Roping in the Legal Eagles

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A startup-oriented lawyer may not be able to convince a jury of a guilty man’s innocence, but they can guide your adVenture through the menacing legal shoals it will no doubt face. Your lawyer is a trusted advisor, but in the end, you run your business, your lawyer does not. In Search of an Oxymoron – The Ideal Lawyer.

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Tech Giants’ Partnership To Explore Ethics, Societal Impacts of AI

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Each company is investing untold billions of dollars in developing AI technologies, betting on a future defined by computer systems that can perceive, reason, advise, and decide. General interest, awareness, and discussion about AI has waxed and waned since the field was founded in 1956,” they write ( PDF ). “We

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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

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In these kinds of businesses I’m on the record as advising “ Ring the Freakin Cash Register.” A Framework to Guide You: So putting it all together, you should always be mindful of your personal circumstances and market conditions. Valuation. I wanted to call out special attention to valuation in this debate.

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How to Handle a VC Presentation with No Deck

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I would argue that this mostly consists of consumer Internet companies (although not exclusively) and it is predominantly early-stage people who are product gurus and have a mildly technical bend to them. I talked about this in the TWiVC video but I didn’t do a good enough job of writing it up in the summary notes in the post.