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Re:Don Dodge is Leaving Microsoft on Wednesday November 04, 2009 @06:20PM (#922849)
One of Micrsoft's biggest mistakes!
Re:When Should Founders Be Allowed to Take Money off the Table? on Sunday September 06, 2009 @10:48PM (#808488)
His point was that the money could be used for things like buying a home. After taxes that 1.5 million turns into a bit more than 1 million (assuming long term equity gains). And if you live in the bay area or Palo Alto, a million doesn't buy you much.
Re:What makes a great entrepreneur? on Thursday September 03, 2009 @04:13PM (#803420)
I think there is more to it than luck. For example, Elon Musk is an entrepreneur that has done well time after time. I don't think he is that lucky. ;-)
Re:Business Lessons I Learned This Year on Monday August 31, 2009 @06:11PM (#796838)
I think there are a lot of good gems in there. Especially the one on: the minimal viable product concept by Eric Ries.
What about the misses you get when working with Fortune 500 companies? Those misses can really hurt a company.
I disagree. I think you can learn a lot of those things and do it yourself.
Re:How to Be a Better Entrepreneur in the Next 30 Minutes on Tuesday May 26, 2009 @12:49AM (#626277)
When I think of link bait, I think of sites that go after Digg and not really Hacker News. Hacker News is an awesome resource (better than digg imho), but if you get to the top I don't think you get too many links out of it.
WOW, that is a lot of money lost. I wonder is someone is going to get sued because of it.
Re:Are You a Hustler? on Tuesday October 21, 2008 @11:52PM (#339708)
I never knew that the PriceGrabber.com guy was a hustler. If he raised raised no venture capital (only financing from friends/family) and sold the company for $485 million, I need to become one.

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