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How Did Shobe And Co Start Spy On It And Startup Life In The 90s?

The team was consulting to pay the bills while working on their startup. Meanwhile, startup bubble was growing. Napster just hit its prime, Webvan was going full speed, T1 internet line were the bomb.


How Can We Deal With Anxieties That Come With The Pursuit Of Entrepreneurial Path?

Silicon Valley today is like Florence during the Renaissance, with insane amounts of energy and output. Yet, the battles and crises that humans go through have remained the same.

Matt MacInnis grew up in a small town in Nova Scotia, seeing amazing companies being built in Silicon Valley He wanted to start on. As a result, Matt had spent his 20s agonizing over the pursuit of that outcome, until he had realized that an 18-year-old Matt probably should not set goals for a 35-year-old, and it is okay to change your focus and desires as you gain the wisdom to be rescued from your past.


How Did Justin Kan Make Is Way Into The World Of Startups?

It has been a long road for Justin. He started in 2004 with Kiko, an online calendar, very similar to Google Calendar. The only really notable things about that startup were it was very early on in this online web application world and it got Justin and team into Y Combinator, which set him on the entrepreneurial career.

From there, the team started justin.tv, as an attempt to make their own reality show on the internet. Although that was a terrible idea that mostly failed, it eventually turned into a platform for anyone to live broadcast their own live video, which became Twitch.tv and in 2014 sold to Amazon for a lot of money.

Justin burned out after about 10 years of doing startups and decided to join Y Combinator and be a partner there, but after a few years of investing in YC startups, he realized being an investor full-time wasn't really for him at that point in life. He was not learning anything anymore.

He started thinking of new ideas and eventually settled on Atrium.


What Are Some Of The Most Exciting Prospects For Vaccine Technology?

Dr. Rogers is interested to see that as new diseases that are worldwide threats, advances can now be made quickly with new technology that will lead to new vaccines— especially in a timespan that was unreachable before.


Why Are Beans One Of The Most Gassy Foods?

It’s because the stuff that forms the outer layer of the vegetables are complex carbohydrates that your enzymes may not be able to break down on your own. So, you rely on your intestines to help you break it down.


Did I Inherit My Artistic Abilities From My Parents?

Unfortunately, science cannot answer this for someone individually. Science can look at averages from lots of people. Genes play a role on average, but we can’t specify this gene in relation of heredity from a parent.


How Do Venture Capitalists Decide Who Are Great Founders?

Some venture capitalists base their decision off of the person’s previous background. Others choose to assess a founder’s emotional quotient.


What Is The Seattle Ignited Women Project?

It’s a gathering that’s dedicated to redefining what success and strength means as a woman.


Advice For People When They're Panicking?

Understand your fears, talk through them. It will help you understand what is causing your feelings.

When things are bad, and you are only consuming bad information, the rest of the world starts to look bad.

Turn off your computer, go look at the sun, relax.


Do People Know What You Expect Of Them?

99% of the time, people think that the expectation is obvious, that it was already discussed, while in reality it's probably not true. Deliberately setting expectations of what you expect from people, and what they expect from you is important for a successful outcome.


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