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How to Avoid a Common Product Mistake Many Teams Make

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From the experience in my earliest days of designing products for Windows and OS2 machines in the early 1990′s I developed a product philosophy, “Design for the novice, configure for the pro.” We built our product at Koral in 2005 with this design philosophy in mind. Startup Advice' Find out for sure.

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Why “The Culture of Failure” is Imperative to Startup Communities

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I lived in London from 1997-2005 and for 6 of those years ran my startup based out of London. 4:30 How did you come up with the idea of customer development? 37:45 Let’s talk about the dichotomy between customer development and Y Combinator? I remember this lesson well. What brings you to LA?

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Why Email May Be Draining Your Company’s Productivity

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I will even take to emailing people I don’t know offering small bits of advice. He turned me down for a job in 2005. If you do randomly write me I have advice. Research & Development. Yet email seems to be an open invitation to anybody. Here’s the thing: I actually do care about responding to people.

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Angel Investing: Skill 3 – Relationships with VCs

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I’d rather be Roger Ehrenberg with a thesis around data-centric companies and base my investment decisions on the skills I’ve developed in my career. Let’s call these cards 1996-99, 2005-08 and 2010+. Tags: Startup Advice Tech Market Analysis VC Industry. got picked up early without raising a lot of VC.

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When Should You Allow Exclusivity in Deals?

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Before weighing in on the subject I would point out one thing that should be obvious to many of you – the iPhone was originally launched in 2007 in an exclusive partnership with AT&T and this was vital to both Apple and AT&T and was a hard negotiation throughout 2005 and 2006.

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

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StackOverflow is a free Q&A site for software developers, blending functionality from wikis, blogs, forums, and social voting (similar to Digg/Reddit); 7.1mm unique visitors per month; new funds will be used to build out engineering team and build out product. Criteo was founded in 2005 in France; now based in Palo Alto, CA.

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Angel Investing 4 – Why You Need Deep Pockets to Win Big

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The first three skills I espoused were: access to the highest-quality deal-flow, domain knowledge of the topic area in which you’re investing and access to VCs to help fund the next stages of development. Tags: Startup Advice Tech Market Analysis VC Industry. I tell my wife to assume that money is lost.&#.