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Founder to CEO: How to build a great company from the ground up

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Re: Founder to CEO: How to build a great company from the ground up

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Does anyone have a PDF of this? Google docs has disabled most functionality due to traffic volume.

You should be able to print it as a PDF via Chrome.

Chrome's PDF printing function gives you an image PDF, even if the content is entirely text. So it's not searchable and is larger than a text PDF (which Firefox will give you). I've uploaded a version here, which I don't think requires cookies or block incognito: https://app.box.com/s/6mbbf3x1625uhcrm6t7tbld4jy1tnkjv

Re: Founder to CEO: How to build a great company from the ground up

#12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You should be able to print it as a PDF via Chrome.

Chrome's PDF printing function gives you an image PDF, even if the content is entirely text. So it's not searchable and is larger than a text PDF (which Firefox will give you). I've uploaded a version here, which I don't think requires cookies or block incognito: https://app.box.com/s/6mbbf3x1625uhcrm6t7tbld4jy1tnkjv

Thank you for this link. Works

Re: Founder to CEO: How to build a great company from the ground up

#13
> YCombinator has a near-blanket policy of only accepting co-founder teams (ie- no solo founders), because the data shows that solo founders rarely succeed. The emotional burden is just too high.

But YC application FAQ states that this is not true. Although practically speaking from speaking to other startups, I have noticed that only startups with co-founders made it to the final round. This is just based off my experience and talking to other startups

Re: Founder to CEO: How to build a great company from the ground up

#14

> YCombinator has a near-blanket policy of only accepting co-founder teams (ie- no solo founders), because the data shows that solo founders rarely succeed. The emotional burden is just too high. But YC application FAQ states that this is not true. Although practically speaking from speaking to other startups, I have noticed that only startups with co-founders made it to the final round. This is just based off my exp…

In my batch, there were definitely a bunch of solo founders. However, they (almost) all had something special about them: a strong existing team, a strong background, or a strong previous startup success.

Re: Founder to CEO: How to build a great company from the ground up

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

You should be able to print it as a PDF via Chrome.

Chrome's PDF printing function gives you an image PDF, even if the content is entirely text. So it's not searchable and is larger than a text PDF (which Firefox will give you). I've uploaded a version here, which I don't think requires cookies or block incognito: https://app.box.com/s/6mbbf3x1625uhcrm6t7tbld4jy1tnkjv

Yesterday Internet Explorer is today's Chrome. I moved to firefox few months ago and never looked back at Chrome.

Re: Founder to CEO: How to build a great company from the ground up

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

You should be able to print it as a PDF via Chrome.

Chrome's PDF printing function gives you an image PDF, even if the content is entirely text. So it's not searchable and is larger than a text PDF (which Firefox will give you). I've uploaded a version here, which I don't think requires cookies or block incognito: https://app.box.com/s/6mbbf3x1625uhcrm6t7tbld4jy1tnkjv

> Chrome's PDF printing function gives you an image PDF, even if the content is entirely text.

That's not true.

Re: Founder to CEO: How to build a great company from the ground up

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Chrome's PDF printing function gives you an image PDF, even if the content is entirely text. So it's not searchable and is larger than a text PDF (which Firefox will give you). I've uploaded a version here, which I don't think requires cookies or block incognito: https://app.box.com/s/6mbbf3x1625uhcrm6t7tbld4jy1tnkjv

Yesterday Internet Explorer is today's Chrome. I moved to firefox few months ago and never looked back at Chrome.

Amen.

I’ve been converting folks back to Firefox and helping them setup containers for Facebook and LinkedIn.

I hope Firefox integrates social media containers in by default in future releases.

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