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A different approach to growing a startup

April 25, 2008 /

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David Heinemeier Hansson’s Startup School talk was probably one of the most popular, and the most out of sync with the rest of the day’s talks. Where most speakers took for granted that the entrepreneur would be seeking VC funding, David took the opposite approach; he wanted to talk about how you could start making money on your own, growing your company without needing to go look for funding.

David opened with the canonical "business model joke", made famous on Slashdot:

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