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Are We Welcome Entrepreneurs or Unwanted Criminals?
Almost deported in First Class
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Incubators are Bullshit
I am often asked what I think about incubators. Short Answer: Incubators are bullshit. Most incubators are like the McDonalds edition of starting a company.
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Do VCs really add value? Founders say sometimes
NOTE: If Hacker Noon & Medium allowed multiple authors, this post would carry 2 other important names. The study referenced below, its…
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Avoiding Startup Tarpits
Startup growth can be painfully slow. So slow that many entrepreneurs just give up and quit when their launch doesn’t go as expected. When…
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Rainy Day Ideas For Things You Can Build To Grow Your Business
Spinning your wheels for today? Here are some mini-projects to get you started.
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A not-so-obvious reason to apply to YC
I’m a YC founder, but I’m not one of the many YC founders whose company has taken off quite yet. Actually, I’m no longer working on the company that I applied to YC with and presented at Demo Day....
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My short history of Engine Yard and my Resignation
All you need to know on Ruby on Rails. Know what you should go for & why. Read up to understand RoR in 2021.
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Candy Japan 2015 Year in Review
2015 was a nerve-wrecking year for Candy Japan, with some dramatic ups and downs.
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The worst users come from referral programs, free trials, coupons
Above: Many small business figured out the hard way why coupon sites generate worse users
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Being a Solo Software Entrepreneur at 40
A tale of growth, responsibilities, and limits.
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My Experience Running Development at a Startup
Posts from the old antjanus.com blog (2012–2020), rebuilt from the Wayback Machine.
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Building a startup in public: from first line of code to frontpage of Reddit
I show how I built a mini startup called Hoodmaps in public from the first line of code to a functioning web app that I got to the frontpage of Reddit with ove…
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Minimum Viable Personality (2011)
Today we have a special guest post. There have been a few guest posts here at AVC. Maybe a half dozen in total. One of my favorites was this one by JLM during the financial crisis of 2008/2009. But this one today may top that gem. It's from our favorite Giant Robot Dinosaur and it's […]
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Too Young to Know It Can’t be Done
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible – and achieve it, generation after generation. Pearl S. Buck Ask people what makes entrepreneurs successf…
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Shutting down my side project of two years
I started blaster.fm in late 2010 with only a vague idea of what I wanted to do with it. Over the next two years …