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How Dating Led to Baydin: Understand Your Users

stever June 8, 2009 2

Before Baydin, Alex and I started another venture. Without going into too much detail it was a mobile, social game with an end goal of making users feel camaraderie with their fellow guys and

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Startup Social Anxiety Disorder

Alex Moore June 3, 2009 2

What do an irrational fear of rejection, the inability to talk to girls at a bar, and a startup in “stealth mode” all have in common?  I was riding the Orange Line en route

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Someone Else's Shoes

stever June 2, 2009 2

I was at a talk, recently, where the speaker mentioned “a lot of data driven people fall into the trap of wanting more information to make a decision. The problem is that the world

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Effective Phone Interviews

stever May 25, 2009 0

Alex and I spent some portion of our time phone interviewing potential interns for the summer. Unfortunately, the resume is often an inaccurate indicator of one’s programming ability. In a previous existence, we could

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When You are THE MAN

stever May 22, 2009 0

Our friends have asked us if we were nervous about going out on our own, especially with the economy as it is. Alex and I have wanted to do our own thing for a

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How do you transfer knowledge and experience?

stever May 7, 2009 1

As we start Baydin, we wrap up work at our old jobs. I’ve spent the last three weeks trying to “transfer” everything I’ve learned in the greater part of a decade to my colleagues.

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