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This Weekend

Startup Lessons Learned

Product management and customer development, KISSmetrics. Fast-paced, thought-provoking and social, this Ignite features presentations from in-the-trenches entrepreneurs ready to share their lessons learned. Also: booze. The evening's slate: 20 Ways to Not Build Stuff Cindy Alvarez. Co-founder, Backblaze.

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How to pivot away $34m: Israel’s Xeround shuts it doors with a lesson

The Next Web

Editor’s note: This story was written by Henn Idan and Yaniv Feldman , and was originally published in Hebrew by Newsgeek , the largest tech blog In Israel. . Xeround then looked to branch out, seeking to partner directly with other media companies within Israel, and AT&T in the United States. What happens when you over-pivot.

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43 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

I actually started my business when me and my wife were living in Israel. It was the loss of a dear friend of mine to a brain tumor that was the catalyst behind leaving my job on Wall Street to pursue helping people with these conditions manage their nutritional needs. Thanks from Kelly Hager, Kelly Hager Group Real Estate Services !