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Parting Advice by Geoff Ralston

Startup School by Y Combinator

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The Power Outage in the Office

Some of the problems we ran into were earth shattering, and it looked like it was the end of the company. We had to be the most reliable service on the internet so we had all our own servers in our office. Another thing i remember is hen i was running a company called lala, which was a music company. This company built a great product. People loved it, and it was so good that facebook actually chose us to be facebook music. This was company making, or as it turned out nearly company breaking.

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