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We’re Shutting Down and I’m Scared
After over two years, backing from a well-known accelerator, nearly one million in funding and a decent amount of traction, we’re shutting…
Jan 28, 2014202 answers
I have a full-time job, but spend nearly 100% of company-time working on my startup. My startup was covered by Ad Age, which my boss receives. He was in a meeting when the article hit, so I went into his email and deleted it.
Feb 28, 201467 answers
Hiring girls is difficult (because very few work in the space)
We have very few girls in our team and we want to hire more. In order to hire people, we can do two things: – Search for people (search on…
May 29, 201464 answers
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My Seed round was so painful to raise, that I am left with a deep hatred for VCs in general. Now that I should raise a Series A, this boiling anger holds me back. I just can't outgrow it.
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My cofounder has suddenly ghosted me after working on a project together for nearly a year. We are near completion and launch of the first product (days away in fact). I havent heard from him in 3 days but he has logged onto social so he isn’t dead..
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I’m COO of a FinTech, we´re 2 partners and our product has a lot of potential. My partner is the CEO and has the biggest % of shares in our company. My partner doesn’t like Angel Investors or VCs, we need money in order to continue, what can I do?
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I am a bootstrapping founder and have stayed small. I’m very happy as a lifestyle business and have not made much money, but then again, I haven’t worked very much to earn it. I’m growing slowly (one product) and happy I am alone.
Confessions·Feb 13, 20192
I dated my co-founder for 7 years. We just broke up, but still working together. It hurts, but the company needs both of us. Anybody ever managed to pull that off ?
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Stories·Feb 14, 20193
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