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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

2001–2007: THE BUILDING YEARS The dot com bubble had burst. Almost no financings, many VCs and tech startups cratered for the second time in less than a decade following the dot com bursting. In the past 7 years we built cultures of quick money, instant wealth and valuations for valuations sake. And it changed the culture.

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Be Careful not to be Penny Wise, Pound Foolish

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Don’t get me wrong, I do think an important sign from startups is their ability to keep a startup culture going for as long as possible and one sign of this in the early days is scrappiness. It was probably true, but I created the wrong mindset – the wrong culture. I love this saying and what it implies and I use it often.

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Extra Crunch roundup: Edtech VC survey, 5 founder mistakes, fintech liquidity, more

TechCrunch

In my experience, many founders have a hard time delegating, which can quickly create cultural and operational problems. Also, we’re adding a new feature to Extra Crunch Live — our guests will offer advice and feedback on pitch decks submitted by Extra Crunch members in the audience! Image Credits: Acquia.

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Austin’s Will Hurley on the city’s incredible tech rise

TechCrunch

Really, it’s finally fulfilled the vision we’ve all had of it becoming a leading city around innovation, tech, and culture,” Whurley said. But most of all, he will go out of his way to help newcomers (as well as veterans) of the Austin tech scene whenever they need help or advice or counsel,” Forrest said. “We

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

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Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice. While that happens sometimes, it was a challenge for Google because it frequently had trouble adapting from an engineering driven culture. Lesson: Joel had been building a community of readers since 2001.