#Founders

Unlike VCs predicting doom, I’m bullish for early-stage startups. This downturn differs from 2000 & 2008 (see why below). If you’re an early-stage CEO, don’t panic. Don’t obsess about extending
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PPP: it's idiotic to create and yet not fully fund a program to "provide a direct incentive for small businesses to keep their workers on the payroll." -- then expect
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So you have a product idea, it’s the perfect idea and you have the plan, desire and energy to start but you just realized that something is missing because you
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As frequent @djangocon speaker and a @django Software Foundation member, I have weird feelings about the Django CoC being listed as an inspiration for this.https://twitter.com/brian_armstrong/status/1318357948867866624 For one thing, there
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Yes, but not too much. Barre took over after "dawladdii musuqmaasuqa" corruption led to death of P. Sharmake and also the weakening of Barre's gov.You could say he delayed the
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Capital is a commodity. Choose investors on the basis of their distribution. That can be consumer distribution in the form of social media & brand halo, or enterprise distribution in
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Life is often complex and filled with unprecedented events. Here's a guide to building mental toughnesshttps://medium.com/the-post-grad-survival-guide/how-to-build-mental-toughness-in-your-20s-or-80s-34e78730ddda Charlie Munger's operating sy
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Did you know? +200 million of Instagram’s users have more than 50,000 followers? With 50k followers, you can make a living wage by posting on behalf of brands. Here are
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I agree with @SeanCordicon. I'm currently trying to carve out enough time to put together the facts I've found. It's time to shine the light of truth on the rumors,
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12 common mistakes I see founders of dating apps making.A thread Removing photos, blurring photos, moving photos to the bottom of the profile. Generally making it hard to see
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Today, we have decided that Chunkie as a company will not seek or take any investments. We will not make any investor pitch decks anymore, & I will not meet
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Discussed the fundraising frenzy we saw last week on the @OperatorStartup roundup - https://twitter.com/OperatorStartup/status/1381124958470819843?s=20Few observations: 1. The money is still way less, considering we're the 3rd largest s
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1/7) *Ecommerce, online payments, software*IMHO, these are modern-day utilities; consumers and companies *need* them to get by. Due to network effects and/or stickiness, these businesses are quite 'moaty' and their
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I’m still annoyed that someone on this website thinks I’m from NYC. It’s time for a rerun of how Ol’ Doc Pilot’s family settled the West:https://www.timesofisrael.com/frontier-jews-find-more-green-acres-than-goldene-medina-in-rura
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I added some numbers: https://twitter.com/mmcphate/status/1324577662954852352 Since this post has started a ‘conversation,’ I’d like to reiterate that I amended @mmcphate’s map of California’s population weight in our country and
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1/In Tehran I had been a well-respected sports journalist— But that didn’t carry any weight in America. So I got a job at a car wash in San Jose and
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