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Unexpected Startup Lesson #1: Quitting the day job

10, May 2010

This post is the first of a series on  “unexpected lessons” learned through my experience as co-founder and CEO of Snapvine, a venture-backed mobile social networking service founded in 2005 and acquired by WhitePages in June of 2008.
In the years just prior to starting Snapvine, I racked up 2 years of debt attending the MIT [...]

Sell Ice Cream, Not Cream and Ice

13, Mar 2010

Doing a startup?  Think carefully about the differences between technology, product and business.
The startup world is full of incredibly smart people who design new applications that “change the world” but lack a clear business model (product, but no business).  It’s also common to see highly educated people create beautiful code that few users actually care [...]


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