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benworthen | 12 years ago | on: Why I Never Gave Up on My Startup

Today FireEye is a public company. But in 2008, it didn't have a product, couldn't raise money, and most of its executive team quit. Here's why Ashar Aziz, FireEye's founder, thought he still had a chance.

benworthen | 12 years ago | on: Five Tips for Technical Co-Founders

Here's a piece from Inkling's CTO and co-founder about what he realized he needed to focus on as the company grew. Recruiting and culture building turned out to be most important.

benworthen | 12 years ago | on: The Bet-the-Company Pivot That Led to Nimble Storage’s IPO

Nimble Storage went public today. The company's Series A pitch is at the bottom of this post. It didn't set out to make a storage system first.

benworthen | 12 years ago | on: How to Present to Investors

I'm the editor of Grove. First, thanks for checking it out and for talking about it here. Our initial goal was to create some compelling pieces that the entrepreneur community would find helpful. To that end, we took the advice we got from the founders we worked with to build the site, which is launch and improve over time. The ability to comment is certainly one of the things we'd like to add going forward, but we feel we have to earn the right to be a community site first. We're hosting a drinkup next month, which hopefully will be a start. In the meantime, forums like HN where there is already a big community are a great place to discuss the site.

FYI here's a link to the drinkup: https://sequoia.co1.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_dpzD7CVJ0DtTwgd