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		cperciva on Oct 26, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What Startups Are Really Like It's a very nice analogy: the startup is moving fast in one direction and the VC or whatever is moving slowly in another one. Personally I prefer the phrase "impedance mismatch".

swolchok on Oct 26, 2009 [–]

It's much harder to explain impedance concisely. I, for one, never took a circuits class, and I wouldn't expect other CS programs to require one either.

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