12+1 Signs That You Have Founderitis
February 3rd, 2010 admin

Thanks to my recent travels, which took me from San Francisco to Munich to LA and back again — all in less than a week — I got to thinking about the past four years. It’s been nearly that long since I first started working on GigaOM, the business, and thus crossed over to becoming a founder. The role of a startup founder is a pretty unique. A great startup founder is …
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