Someone recently approached me about a new product idea.
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Matt Watson is a serial software entrepreneur based in Kansas City and the founder and CEO of Full Scale, which helps companies build offshore development teams fast. He previously founded Stackify, a developer-tools startup, and was an early CTO at VinSolutions. He's the author of Product Driven and hosts the Startup Hustle podcast.
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