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Inspiring Entrepreneurs: Ted Livingston’s rollercoaster ride as CEO of hit messaging startup Kik

The Next Web

Waterloo, Canada-based Kik recently passed 80 million users, which was given particular significance from local media who noted that it took the 4-and-a-half year old startup past BlackBerry and its BBM mobile messaging solution. From all-time high to all-time low. It was a hit. “It It absolutely just exploded,” Livingston says.

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Out of the Crisis #27: Eren Bali of Carbon Health on public health, COVID vaccinations, and working as a unified society to solve problems

Startup Lessons Learned

He spent a few years working at the tech startup SpeedDate before following through with his original plan, after which Udemy went on to be enormously successful. Now, as CEO and founder of Carbon Health , Eren is leading one of the country's fastest growing healthcare startups. Then he realized that somebody was him.

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Jonas Weigert on A/B Testing Beyond the Landing Page (Q&A)

ConversionXL

Especially, for me, in the tech startup space, as these companies often live and die by data, and tend to build their organizations around experimentation. They have a ratings system and build distribution algorithms to best distribute lawn care providers to customers. How do you determine if one distribution algorithm ‘won’?