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Sometimes you just don’t have a good excuse for going missing from the blogosphere for so-o-o-o long. Truth is, I’ve been up to my eyeballs in Coupa startup stuff, and it’s been a blast. But the days of “grip it and rip it” posts discussing the inner workings of Coupa are probably in the past. [...]
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What are the views of a Silicon Valley guy like me whose spent a decade in Oracle’s performance-driven culture? To steal a line from Fox News, I think you’ll find them “fair and balanced.”
Let me explain the context. In talking with friends and colleagues (like Michael Lamoreaux), it’s come to my attention that [...]
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For those interested in technology and its relationship with entrepreneurship, I'd recommend reading Paul Graham's 2001 article called Beating the Averages. It talks about Paul's experiences starting up a firm that in the end became Yahoo! Stores. He explains why he and his co-founder chose LISP, a programming language that no one uses, and why [...]
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