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The Tech Entrepreneur's Survival Guide: How to Bootstrap Your Startup, Lead Through Tough Times, and Cash In for Success
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The Tech Entrepreneur's Survival Guide: How to Bootstrap Your Startup, Lead Through Tough Times, and Cash In for Success

by Bernd Schoner
May 2014
Beginner
288 pages
6h 39m
English
McGraw-Hill
Audiobook available
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Acknowledgments

Many have helped build ThingMagic, and many have helped me write this book. Thank you, all. I am forever grateful for your contributions, dedication, sacrifices, and humor.

Working with my ThingMagic cofounders, Ravi Pappu, Matt Reynolds, Rehmi Post, and Yael Maguire, at MIT and beyond has been the most formative experience in my life. Thank you for being smart, creative, ambitious, and—sometimes—patient!

Only Ravi and I remained employed at ThingMagic at the time of the acquisition. Some 10 years earlier, we were the first full-time ThingMagic employees. We practically sat on each other’s laps in our minuscule office, seemingly disagreeing on everything from the room temperature to the prospects of a career outside science. Somehow, ...

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