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Weekly Founder Wisdom

By True Ventures, September 17, 2012

Showyou
With the advent of the release of the iPhone 5, Apple fever is at an all-time high. Continuing the conversation from last week about the importance of mission, Mark Hall of Showyou discusses Apple’s “missionary” culture, as opposed to a mostly “mercenary” culture in the rest of Silicon Valley.

StockTwits
As it soars, lags, rallies and tumbles, the stock market can take you for a ride. Howard Lindzon, investment expert and Founder of StockTwits, shares his advice on investing for “profits and joy.”

Qualaroo
“Having been through naming exercises several times, I realized it would be an opinionated, emotional process.” Sean Ellis of CatchFree and Qualaroo tells us what’s in a name.

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