@chriscombs

Entrepreneur building @LinkSquares. Previously at Boston based startup @Backupify. Sports. Beer. Fun.

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Joined March 2009
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Chris Combs retweeted
Expa@expa9 Mar 2020
Compatibility is as important as competence. Remember that when hiring for key roles.
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Startups generally are either sales-focused or product-focused Sales-focused by nature becomes more short-term focused But ... if it yields additional growth, that lets you hire more product people #itscomplicated
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We are excited to announce LinkSquares has raised $14.5M #SeriesA led by @jumpcapital with new investor First Ascent and existing investors @massmutual and Hyperplane Venture Capital! Read more here: bit.ly/2uAVx0a
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I like these ideas. Small mid-season tourney with finals around Christmas would be fun thescore.com/nba/news/188082…
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Picked up and moved to Boston after one visit Went through acq of the company I moved up to work for Married my amazing wife Started @linksquares from scratch Grew it to service hundreds of customers and employ 50+ people Welcomed a daughter to the world! Best decade yet! – at Boston, MA
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🐐 golf.com/news/2019/11/09/mic… – at Winthrop, MA

Jeremy Roenick tells an absolutely epic Michael Jordan golf gambling story | News | GOLF.com

Michael Jordan is obsessed with golf. We all know that. But this story adds some legend to his history of playing golf on game day.

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Cisco Offered $7 Billion but DataDog turned them down: bloomberg.com/news/articles/… – at Jamestown, RI
Amazon Has 30,000 Open Jobs. Yes, You Read That Right. nyti.ms/2ZZOWGi

Amazon Has 30,000 Open Jobs. Yes, You Read That Right. (Published 2019)

With the U.S. unemployment rate near a 50-year low, openings at the company keep piling up as it tries to grow in different directions.

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Chris Combs retweeted
Hiten Shah
@hnshah28 Aug 2019
There should be no difference between a startup and a business.
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wow, the founder becomes a billionaire before the company even has a liquidity event.
Zach Tratar
@zachtratar14 Aug 2019
The We Company's S-1 is INSANE. - Adam (founder) has lease agreements with WE where he's earning $250m from properties he owns! - The company has loaned him $30m+ dollars since 2013 at 0.64% APR, enabling him to re-invest! - $500m loan using... stock at collateral!
Scared to take that risk? Make that leap? Well, Burger King is out here making tacos guys. #bebold
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This reminds me of the @stripe founders saying your idea has to be "just crazy enough" to work: nfx.com/post/hidden-patterns…
Instead of an app that makes people look older, is there an app that makes people act older? – at Boston, MA
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Retweet if you held through the bear market 🙏🏽
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SEC approves new Silicon Valley stock exchange called LTSE backed by ⁦@ericries⁩ and ⁦@pmarca⁩ cnbc.com/2019/05/10/sec-appr…

SEC approves new Silicon Valley stock exchange backed by Marc Andreessen, other tech heavyweights

The U.S. government on Friday approved the formation of a new Silicon Valley stock exchange following a regulatory snag late last year.

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Founders and early employees should read this thread 👇
Justin Kan
@justinkan8 May 2019
I’ve started a lot of companies, and suffered a lot while building them. The suffering came from the mismatch between pain (i.e. various things not going to plan) and my expectations (i.e. that things would go according to plan).
How a 200-year-old house in Central KY birthed horseracing in the United States: wkyt.com/content/news/How-a-…

How a 200-year-old house birthed horseracing in the Bluegrass

Life back in the fall of 1788 was tough. If you wanted something, you had to kill it, make it or grow it, and in Kentucky frontiersmen and women wanted entertainment.

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Tonight we will be at @WeWork One Beacon with @ericalrice, @christianmagel, @analyticsraj, @chriscombs, and @Alices_Table for our first event of the 2019 Shoobx Startup Series! We hope to see you there. #ShoobxStartupSeries
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Most people are not up for the challenge All your first 15-20 hires have to be A great LinkedIn does not make up for it – at Burlingame, CA
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