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Why Some Startups Win

Steve Blank

His company had marched through customer discovery, learning about the customer problem, validated solutions and was now scaling sales and marketing. I told him that I had learned long ago that to keep that from happening, you need to on-board/train your team about mission and intent. What I’m about to describe here is quite different.

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6 Keys To Hiring The Best Team For Your New Business

Startup Professionals Musings

In fact, his analysis of current statistics and many case studies leads both of us to recommend a focus on a set of key hiring principles that shouldn’t come as a surprise, but don’t seem to get followed very often these days by new companies, or even the more mature ones: Look for a cultural fit before a skill match.

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Takeaways from the Domino Data Science Pop-up: Defining a data scientist

Version One Ventures

It’s always tricky to define trendy terms – and that’s certainly true about data science. Whipple Neely, Director of Data Science at EA, gave us a better way to define a data scientist: it isn’t who we are but rather what we do. First, it helps us better understand why and when we need data scientists (and what we can expect of them).

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How Black People Leveraged Tech Bigotry to Boss the Blockchain Below the Radar

Austin Startup

Yep, African-Americans are way ahead of the pack on this blockchain stuff and this article is about to hurt some real feelings in the tech world status quo, trust me. What you about to read is the awesome and beautiful thing about STEM because at the end of the day, real talent and true meritocracy rise to the top.

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What is all this VR, AR, MR stuff? My last day at SXSW 2017.

Austin Startup

Get my “sardine” on (they really cram us into those rooms). Before I get into today’s sessions, a little about the differences between VR, AR and MR for context. A common theme among the panels was about how much this industry will alter the way in which we interact with absolutely everything. Go into session. Run to bathroom.

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RideAustin #SXSW Weekend 1 Rideshare Recap (and yes — we’re still true to our open data pledge even…

Austin Startup

This record weekly volume is despite us leaving ~5k rides unfilled during our intermittent service on Sat between 7:30–11:30pm. Though Uber & Lyft are almost always secretive about their rideshare data — we believe they did a combined 350k rides last SXSW (Uber at 250k and Lyft at 100k). We continue to be #1 in the Austin market.

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SXSW 2017: Connecting The Great Disconnect

Austin Startup

And you think, finally, this is the connectedness that we all keep talking about. It is no coincidence that in almost every casual discussion and in every session I went to people spoke about the curse and the blessing of technology. And I am talking about people across the board from poor, working class, to the 1%.