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<span><span><span></span><img data-image-id="1*6ZmZrs4BB8_ivCFjZx9H_A.png" data-width="468" data-height="555" src="https://hackernoon.com/hn-images/1*6ZmZrs4BB8_ivCFjZx9H_A.png"></span><span>H</span></span>i. My name is Vladimir Polo. Three years ago I launched my first <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/startup" target="_blank">startup</a>. We had everything a new company wants: a small team, initial funding, first clients, first partners, conferences, and trips. We happily received our first annual payment. We had traditions and inside jokes: for every bug we found, we charged each other one slice of pizza. We endured stressful situations: our servers went down (because of a DDOS attack) right as I was boarding a six-hour flight with no wifi.