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Top Ten “First Things My Evil Assistant Would Do”

Written by: StartupStella September 8th, 2008

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Rich has asked what would the first thing my assistant would do.
Unfortunately, the first things my assistants have done was to start mucking things up. The second thing they do, once they’re good and trained, is leave.
What I would like is an Evil Assistant. Sort of a Voodoo assistant. If I had an evil assistant, here are [...]

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