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To be clear, I said that most companies I see pitching have COOs & I don’t have a rule against it. http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2011/09/17/further-thoughts-on-startup-operations/

Further Thoughts on Startup Operations

Why Your Startup Doesn’t Need a COO

http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2011/09/12/why-your-startup-doesnt-need-a-coo/ Startups don’t need – shouldn’t have – COOs. I have this conversation with every startup that comes to see me and has a CEO & a COO.
http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/12/tc-disrupt-office-hours-with-yc-partners-paul-graham-and-harj-taggar/

TC Disrupt: Office Hours With YC Partners Paul Graham And Harj Taggar | TechCrunch

rearrangement and if Paul Graham and Harish Kagar [sp?], partners of YC [xx] can come up, we're going to do, I'm very excited about this next session.
http://garry.posterous.com/how-steve-jobs-handles-trolls-wwdc-1997

How Steve Jobs handles trolls (WWDC 1997) - garry's posterous

An audience member at WWDC in 1997 trolls Steve Jobs in front of everyone, but Steve responds with grace. (Bold emphasis mine.) Question : I would like, for example, for you to express in clear terms how, say java, in any of it’s incarnations, addresses the idea (inaudible).

s Entrepreneurship Corner: Barry Silbert, SecondMarket, Inc. - Early Years of SecondMarket

Description "Just open your doors and start a business," is the best advice ever received by SecondMarket Founder and CEO Barry Silbert. SecondMarket started with a very simple operation, experienced profitable growth over the next five years, and now stands to play an even larger role in the secondary markets space. http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=2700
http://www.businessinsider.com/flipboard-ceo-mike-mccue-2010-7

Flipboard CEO Mike McCue

Flipboard is a beautiful iPad app that looks at the content your friends are sharing on Twitter and Facebook and reformats it into a digital, interactive magazine.

(Founder Stories) The GroupMe Guys Reveal How To Land A Job At A Startup

Erick Schonfeld is a technology journalist and the former Editor in Chief of TechCrunch. At TechCrunch, he oversaw the editorial content of the site, helped to program the Disrupt conferences and CrunchUps, produced TCTV shows, and wrote daily for the blog. He joined TechCrunch as Co-Editor in 2007, and helped take it from a popular blog to a thriving... → Learn More http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/23/founder-stories-groupme-full-interview/
http://ecorner.stanford.edu/podcasts.html The DFJ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders lecture series takes place every Wednesday during the academic year. Transcripts of the podcasts are provided by Pods in Print .

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