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30 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I then partnered with other PR firms in the US to assist and grow their client base and in turn, grew mine as well. My manager, a female partner in the firm pulled me to the side and said, I want you to know that you have options and that. In 1997 at just 42 years old, I suffered a massive heart attack that landed me in the ICU.

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Building An Autonomous and Virtual World: Softbank Teams With Mapbox

Feld Thoughts

I’ve posted about the massive founder crush my partners and I have on Eric Gundersen, the CEO of Mapbox. In the years since, with massive customer launches like Snapchat and the Weather Channel, the horizontal scale of Mapbox’s platform is now much more obvious.

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Building a Great Startup Board: Pt 1

Reid Hoffman

On many boards, both the CEO and CFO have direct channels with the board so that they can provide the yin and yang (in a well-coordinated way). They might both be accomplished writers or editors, but for a particular project, each partner focuses on a single role, and their different foci make the partnership stronger.

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Hubris Versus Humility: The $15 billion Difference

Steve Blank

In 1997, RIM introduced the first packet-switched messaging device. TiVo had plenty of other battles to fight: competition, issues with channel partners, patent battles, as well as the movie studios, cable companies, broadcast networks and advertisers who all wanted TiVo dead. RIM Interactive Pager 900.

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Transcript of How Reducing Friction Increases Revenue

Duct Tape Marketing

This transcript is sponsored by our transcript partner – Rev – Get $10 off your first order. Check it out at semrush.com/partner/ducttapemarketing , and we’ll have that in the show notes. And on social media, I am on all of the channels, but I’m most easy to find on Twitter where I am @RogerDooley.

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Startups and small biz at SXSW: ideas on how to spend your time at the conference!

crowdSPRING Blog

07:00 PM: TechSet Party Speakeasy – This Friday SXSW kickoff party unites the digerati as they channel their inner Fame Monster by reviving a decade of style and glamour that made the social elite go ga ga. Presented by John Gruber of Daring Fireball and Jim Coudal of Coudal Partners and The Deck Network. Hilton A/B ([link].

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Why Crunch Modes Doesn't Work: Six Lessons

www.igda.org

In his 1997 paper, Sleep, Sleep Deprivation, and Human Performance in Continuous Operations , he found that: Laboratory studies show that mental work declines by 25% during each successive 24 hours of continuous wakefulness. The huge tanker ran aground, spilling millions of gallons of crude oil into the sound. Post to Twitter. Foundation.