Read: Fables
- 3 Lessons in Clearing Hurdles & Lowering (some) Expectations
- Part 2 in my series on what I've learned launching my startup 'in-country,' from Afghanistan.
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By Tom Davis,
September 06, 2007 —
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- his is the 2nd in a 3-Part Series chronicling the first six months of our web development startup, Nydus Media. Like all young companies, Nydus has already encountered a its share of challenges. The fact that, together with my cofounder, I launched the business from my Army unit’s forward base in Afghanistan at times made the launch harder. But believe it or not, this added challenge actually helped us, too. It has taught us how to clear some very high hurdles – and just as important – how to lower some of our own expectations. Our server problem, mentioned in my first post... CONTINUE READING
- Operation Enduring Start-Up
- How being deployed to Afghanistan hurt, and helped, this founder's effort to get his startup off the ground.
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By Tom Davis,
September 04, 2007 —
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This is the story of my deployment with the U.S. Army to Afghanistan, and how the first six months of my tour of duty here affected the launch of my web startup, “Nydus Media”:http://www.nydusmedia.com/. When I received the Army’s call in November 2006, I thought that leaving would do a lot of damage to my civilian life, as wel… CONTINUE READING
- Blow by Blow: Why I went to South America to incubate my startup
- A chronicle of one software developer's adventures in becoming a founder.
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By Sanjiva Nath,
August 30, 2007 —
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This post chronicles my adventures last year as I began to build an open source software development company, “zAgile”:http://www.zagile.com/aboutus.html—“una compañía que busca transformarse en una plataforma para el desarrollo de software en el mundo!” (It means, “a company that aspires to be the platform… CONTINUE READING
- The Invisible Man
- An entrepreneur's uneasy path to becoming the Unknown Founder
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By Unknown Founder,
August 08, 2007 —
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Note: Names and products are kept intentionally vague to protect the innocent… mostly me!
In 1999 I interviewed for the CTO position at a well-funded start-up. I was … CONTINUE READING
Inside
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- 5 Ways to leverage Last.fm's successful learning curve.
- Leadership: 5 things you can learn from Anita Roddick (1943-2007)
- A great piece of advice I got -- and tried to give.
- Question of the Day: Should I fundraise for 1 budget-year, or 2?
- 3 Operating benchmarks founders should bear in mind now.
- Top 10 programming languages of the future - you voted!
- Question of the Day: Go Big or Build Small?
- Operation Enduring Start-Up
