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  Steve Franks

  Mar 7, 2016
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  Steve Franks

  

  What’s eating Silicon Valley

  Quartz - Andrew Yang

  Like most people, I look up to and admire the heroes of Silicon Valley (the real ones, not the ones from the TV show). They’ve given rise to services (e.g., Google, Facebook, Uber, LinkedIn, Airbnb) that we use every day and make the world a better place. They’ve created value, wealth, and …

• http://online.wsj.com/articles/what-do-you-do-after-taking-facebook-public-1445824918

  

  Steve Franks

  Oct 27, 2015
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  Steve Franks

  

  When Burn Rates Burn: The Myth Of Fundraising As Entrepreneurial Victory

  Forbes - Robin Bruce

  While entrepreneurship today is more often seen through the lens of disruptive ideas and extreme valuations, at a basic level it is the ability to turn an idea into a profitable, cash flow positive business that creates value over time. In the past few months alone there have been a slew of startup …

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  Steve Franks

  

  This is how much money you can REALLY make working at a startup

  Business Insider - Julie Bort

  AngelList, the website where startups can meet angel investors, is also the place where tech workers can find jobs at hot startups. Coding school One Month has a tool called JobSignal that analyzes this job market to figure out which skills pay the best. Working at a startup comes with the promise of …

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  Steve Franks

  

  The subprime ‘unicorns’ that do not look a billion dollars

  Financial Times

  The private and public worlds of technology collided this week with a set of stories about two very different companies: one a large business in its fourth decade, seeking to adjust to a new world; the other a much touted Silicon Valley start-up whose ambitious scientific claims were questioned in …