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20 Years As a CEO: What I Wish I Knew Then

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Leaning back in my chair and pensively staring into the digital whiteness of the Google Doc (about to type this article), I’m thinking how many times I actually pronounced (in my head or out loud), ā€œ If only someone had told me this before ,ā€ as a founding CEO. And so, in 2005, I decided to start a business with only $100 in my pocket.

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20 Years As a CEO: What I Wish I Knew Then

StartupNation

Leaning back in my chair and pensively staring into the digital whiteness of the Google Doc (about to type this article), I’m thinking how many times I actually pronounced (in my head or out loud), ā€œ If only someone had told me this before ,ā€ as a founding CEO. And so, in 2005, I decided to start a business with only $100 in my pocket.

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Here’s How to Do PR on a Budget

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In that article I talked about how PR drives: recruiting, employee retention, biz dev deals, funding and even M&A and that often ā€œattributionā€ to your PR activities is unknown. It’s like ā€œdirectā€ traffic to your website that seems to magically appear. When to start PR?

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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

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awards dinner on Thursday night I started reflected on what it would take to ā€œchange the trajectory&# for Seattle or for any regional market, really. And I think about the ā€œSeattle issue&# as a metaphor for startups and business in general. There’s you and your killer CTO co-founder. Can’t list them all.

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Should You Consider Replacing Yourself as CEO?

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My internal compass has always steered me strongly toward the belief that founders who can scale with their startup companies are better to back that founders who eventually need to hire a CEO. It’s your baby. ā€ But lately I’m more swayed by the wise words of Reid Hoffman. You took the biggest leap of faith.

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Analyzing Billions of Transactions to Answer Questions on Consumer Behavior – Michael Babineau of Second Measure with Kevin Hale

Y Combinator

Before working at YC he cofounded Wufoo. 4:00 – From project to company. 19:00 – Data examples from their blog. 19:00 – Data examples from their blog. Before working at YC, he co-founded Wufoo. Mike, Kevin was your group partner when you did YC in the Summer 2015 batch. Google Play.

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How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup

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I recently read a post over on VentureHacks titled, ā€œ Top Ten Reasons Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers &# written by Scott Walker (who blogs on legal issues for entrepreneurs ). So eventually you have your company funded but only 2 of the 5 people who started the company are still around. the link is here.

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