andykmaguire

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by andykmaguire 10y ago
Where are the consequences for discriminating hosts? This feels like lip service.
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by andykmaguire 10y ago
Remember when Sam tweeted this at DMC a while back? It sounds like he has revised his position. @davemcclure way to help startups is not to be super busy with travel etc, but to sit around your office and be available to advise them :)
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by andykmaguire 10y ago
First Round Capital does this on their blog. Reject subscribe popup requires clicking "No I don't want to learn more"
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by andykmaguire 12y ago
We have really enjoyed Bonus.ly, our team loves it at Looksharp. Great team too! (Disclaimer - I am an advisor)
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by andykmaguire 12y ago
Congrats to Brett, David, and the rest of the amazing Remind team for reimagining how teachers connect with parents and students.
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Remind raises $40M Series C(blogs.wsj.com)
2 points by andykmaguire 12y ago|1 comments
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by andykmaguire 12y ago
Yeah, not impressed. I think it sounds far more pretentious to refer to yourself as a CEO when you run a company of 5 people - that's always made me a bit uncomfortable. Entrepreneur denotes startup founder. Fair enough. It's more
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by andykmaguire 12y ago
Sam - This is standard fare not just for accelerators but VC term sheets as well. Curious if you apply your logic in that case as well?
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by andykmaguire 12y ago
Feels directionally correct.
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by andykmaguire 12y ago
Don't work anywhere that you're treated like a child. That "incentive program" is infuriating.
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by andykmaguire 12y ago
That massive looking graph increase is only $6 since 2006.
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by andykmaguire 13y ago
Many (or most) of the great technology companies have technical founders that benefit tremendously from a successful exist. Equating "business guys" with "the man" who get all the benefit and engineers as the poor labor
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by andykmaguire 13y ago
This move is unethical for a very clear and straight forward reason. Demo Day at 500 Startups is "invite only". The YC company was not invited. People are invited for very targeted and strategic reasons. Information will get out,
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by andykmaguire 13y ago
This is a really good, thoughtful article. I've had the same experience as more founders reach out and seek advice, but rarely do I strongly suggest a path that hasn't already been considered. Even if they disagree, just telling t
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by andykmaguire 13y ago
"Ben is using his power and time (and trust me he is the only one doing this) to build and advocating and acting on the design and construction of an authentic network that facilitates participation and adoption of the culture."
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by andykmaguire 13y ago
That's just badass
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by andykmaguire 13y ago
Have you done an accelerator program? We did 500 Startups and while some startups obviously don't make it - I think that if you ask the founders on the whole there will be overwhelming consensus that it was extremely helpful. Any good
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by andykmaguire 13y ago
Cool.
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by andykmaguire 13y ago
Author here - good point about bandwidth. We typically see that companies that can't afford to pay "x" interns typically don't have bandwidth to manage "x" interns.
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by andykmaguire 13y ago
Author here - The unique requirements at many Silicon Valley companies for rapidly scaling teams require robust, well paid, competitive internship programs. The famous perks at Google, Facebook, etc. definitely extend to internship programs
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by andykmaguire 13y ago
Author here, good question. We see that tech internships are much more likely to be paid, in large part because technology companies recognize the tremendous value of internship programs for fueling their new grad hiring.