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FI graduation and the aftermath

By cheez80 | Published: March 3, 2010
we’re done with Founder Institute — we graduated! the program was really awesome. there are still some kinks to be worked out, but i’d say it was extremely helpful, especially to first-time founders like richard and myself. we’re planning on attending some of the LA sessions; hopefully we get to meet more interesting people! just to keep you [...]
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FI meeting 4

By cheez80 | Published: December 4, 2009
we had a good meeting on Tuesday (i’m sorry i’m late again). trip adler of scribd, jon carder of mojopages, and neil senturia of sdnn + blackbird ventures gave some presentations, mostly about what’s important to a startup, rather than the posted topic of company roadmaps. some interesting things — trip has a very product-centric [...]
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whoops, a bit tardy

By cheez80 | Published: November 23, 2009
i completely forgot to update after last week’s meeting. sorry! we ended up breaking a side skirt on the car. check out my other blog KOF ‘98 for photos. that was the major event. the FI meeting, on the other hand, wasn’t as good as the others have been so far. it seemed like there wasn’t [...]
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founder institute session 2

By cheez80 | Published: November 11, 2009
we had some interesting talks this week about basic market research — it opened my eyes to the legwork that we still haven’t done (and still need to do). i’ll be sitting down this week and doing the research that we need to do to make sure we can pitch Receet effectively and cogently. one of [...]
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