Can A Startup Do OffShore Development? Part 1

Posted 06.30.2009 in Business, Technology
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One of the first things I did at Zoecity was to build a new engineering team based in Malaysia. Zoecity’s headquarters is in Seattle but we have a satellite office in Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia. We started looking in January of 2008 and it took us roughly six months to fully staff our [...]

Delighting In The Lord

Posted 06.25.2009 in Faith
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Are we setting our priorities straight to get what we want? Is it possible for us to have our cake and eat it too? Psalm 23 suggest we can. Delight yourself in the LORD.

How To Evaluate Early-Stage Web 2.0 Companies

Posted 06.14.2009 in Business, Technology
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What is the most important thing you need to know about funding an early-stage Web 2.0 startup? DCF? TAM? SAM? What do you think? I found my answer changed when I went from investor to entrepreneur.

What Do You Do After You’ve Drank Your Kool-Aid?

Posted 06.03.2009 in Business, Technology
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Running as CEO of a startup, one big pitfall you can have is to over-believe your own Kool-Aid. When you lead a startup, you are a visionary. You see a future and believe in it so much that you put your company, employees and investors at risk to achieve it. So what do you after you’ve drank your Kool-Aid?