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Here are some of our latest and greatest tweets:
“Persistence isn’t using the same tactics over and over. Persistence is having the same goal over and over.” – Seth Godin
“The best business plan is to sell people the things they want.” – Stephan Schmidt
“Startups need to develop an initial product with the least number of features that can sell to the most people.” – Brett Owens
How to measure your lawyers: (1) How quickly do they turn things around? (2) How many mistakes are in the product? Forget other metrics.” – Venture Hacks [We later added "(3) Cost" to the list.]
“For heavens sake, if you haven’t gotten comfy with Agile techniques and thinking, get on it right now.” – Tim Bray
“Every fund has a silver bullet—someone who can kill any deal—and a lead bullet—someone who can’t get any deal done.” – Anonymous VC
“If an investor can’t give you a deadline for a yes/no, and you can’t force a deadline for a yes/no, you shouldn’t be talking to investors.” – Venture Hacks
“If they’re talking to you, you have leverage.” – Christopher Voss
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# Stephan Schmidt · Oct 28, 2008
Strange world. Last week I was reading several articles e.g. “I have a job offer at a startup, am I getting a good deal? Part 2.” because of all the startups who currently call and need a CTO, this week I got linked. Thanks.
Stephan