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This Weekend

Startup Lessons Learned

Product management and customer development, KISSmetrics. jesskah UltraLean: Building Products Without a Dev Team Sandeep Sood. Fast-paced, thought-provoking and social, this Ignite features presentations from in-the-trenches entrepreneurs ready to share their lessons learned. Also: booze. Co-founder, Backblaze. Co-founder, Polyvore.

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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. This last idea had potential.

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43 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

3) I needed the product. I started my business because I personally needed the product we built. I figured I was not alone in wanting this product, so I asked around and it turns out that lots of other women wanted it too. I actually started my business when me and my wife were living in Israel. So my team and I built it.