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In Love, In Partnership: How One Couple Finds Success at Home and at Work

Entrepreneurs' Organization

It’s also good advice to treat your marriage like a business partnership, in that both require commitment, communication and a shared view of values and goals. They started their first joint venture, Blue Moon Pizza, in 2003. It’s true that you should treat your business partnership like a marriage. Let’s do it!”

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How Open Should a Startup CEO be with Staff?

Both Sides of the Table

” Your peer group is envious of your finally doing what they’ve always wanted to do but found it too hard to give up the golden paycheck and predictable future. ” Your peer group is envious of your finally doing what they’ve always wanted to do but found it too hard to give up the golden paycheck and predictable future.

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

Both Sides of the Table

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice.

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How to Develop Your Fund Raising Strategy

Both Sides of the Table

There is all sorts of advice on the Internet about how to raise capital. I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. I’ve tried to make this advice as well-rounded and biased free as I can. Raising money is hard. Of course much of it is conflicting.

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How to Win Consulting, Board, and Deal Roles with Private Equity and Venture Capital Funds

David Teten VC

Would you like to work with private equity and venture capital funds? There are relatively few jobs directly inside private equity and venture capital funds, and those jobs are highly competitive. See How to negotiate a partner role at a VC or private equity firm.) At Versatile VC , we’ve used all these models. Expert Networks.

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Don’t Roll out the Red Carpet on the Way out the Door

Both Sides of the Table

This is part of my Startup Advice series. We chose to move Ryan to be the peer of the lead architect. Before I started my first company in 1999 I worked for Andersen Consulting (now Accenture). Suddenly it was star treatment and all sorts of promises about the future. You develop a cynicism that the future will be better.