Soon enough, Branson persuaded his parents to pursue his startup full-time and dropped out of high school.
His business partner, an app developer who was working part-time on their San Francisco startup, had to devote more time to his other, full-time job.
For first-time startup CEOs, this kind of support group can be immensely valuable.
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The P7700 delivers extremely rapid performance from a quick startup time to lightning-fast autofocus recognition to help ensure the moment is captured.
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His two-year-old Seattle startup makes software that tracks gift-card balances in real time and blasts e-mails about looming expirations.
Notably, Path has three full-time designers in a startup of just twenty people, a relatively large number.
One of the first companies that will take advantage of ATOMS, ReadyRides, is a GM-backed startup with an proposition that even risk-loving venture capitalists can have a heard time getting their heads around: peer-to-peer car sharing.
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That led to a full-time gig at the podcasting startup Odeo, built by a former Google star named Evan Williams.
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That said, be aware of the fuzzy line between using your cool-down time at work for your startup and stealing time or resources from your employer.
In the Local Boy Makes Good version, fresh-startup-company Calxeda (pronounced Cal-Zayda) has a perfect launch, showing up for the first time in the public eye hand in hand with marquee-customer HP.
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Unemployment is high right now, and there are many, many, many professionals who see the startup route as a more sustainable alternative to seeking full-time employment.
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Exec, the errand startup, has spent the last year building out its real-time mobile gig service.
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The marketplaces guru is also a long-time backer of Zillow cofounder Rich Barton in another startup, job review site Glassdoor, where Gurley made the critical suggestion not to spend millions on marketing and saved the company, Barton says.
Travelling is expensive, time-consuming, and (in coach, where we startup types fly) uncomfortable.
The tiny office they shared with three credit officers flooded with sewage--belying the fact that CapitalSource was at the time the richest startup ever.
Startup time and disc load times are comparable to most dedicated home Blu-ray players -- certainly not best in class, but passable -- and we couldn't get the player to skip despite our best efforts.
In fact, an informed and conscientious PR professional can be a great asset to a time-challenged journalist looking for a lead on a hot new startup or one simply trying to find timely answers to his or her questions.
At the same time, the mom-of-three is also busy running her new startup.
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There is no perfect answer, but in a startup when you have to do everything all at once, learning it all is hard and time-consuming.
While Thrun remains tangentially connected to Stanford as a part-time research professor overseeing the work of select grad students, he teaches primarily through his Udacity startup.
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