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Quickly Unpacking Microsoft’s Acquisition Of GitHub

Haystack

Stepping back, it’s interesting to see this cultural shift among larger companies who are comfortable with these co-branding scenarios, which actually may provide better PR and future opportunities to add to their portfolios. Many tried and couldn’t get in.

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Investing Outside The Bay Area

Haystack

More recently, this trend has shifted a bit within the Bay Area, which today’s giants like Uber, Airbnb, and Stripe being built in San Francisco proper while incumbents down south have begun scooping up premium commercial real estate in the city. I have been reading Fred’s blog AVC for about a decade now. A blog entry for another day.

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Simple Frameworks For Success (Full Video + Success)

OnStartups

And I published this on my own startups blog. So for a long time, it was brand, culture, and what I call boldness, which is is the organization taking on enough risk? So when I had culture on my list, I spent 300 hours in the culture code deck at HubSpot. Because people don't love the incumbent right now.