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Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out – The Startup Genome Project

Steve Blank

In April 2010 I received an email that said, “I’m an incoming Stanford student in the fall and working on a project that a number of people suggested I get in touch with you about.&#. Solo founders take 3.6x Ok, I get a lot of these. Is this some grad student or post doc who wanted to do some independent study?

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The 4 Types of Stories Founders Need to Tell When Fundraising

View from Seed

She became a prolific writer—12 books, while you and I struggle with one email or one blog post! I find it intriguing that species not only evolve against their environment, but their environment co-evolves simultaneously against them. Co-evolution in an ecosystem is a beautiful and a relatively stable thing. Enter the Kudzu.

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The Entrepreneur’s Wish List – What One Founder Is Eyeing For The Holidays

YoungUpstarts

By Stephen Tanenbaum, co-founder and CEO of UGallery. I’m a startup founder and I spend more time at the office than I’d like to admit. Gift memberships can be purchased directly from the website and printed or sent via email. Stephen Tanenbaum is co-founder and president of UGallery.com. Sound familiar?

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CXL Live 2022 Recap: Main Takeaways From 6 World-Class Marketers

ConversionXL

Gavin Braman, Co-Founder @ Drifting Creatives. Just like Peep, other marketers from hypergrown products, such as David Cancel (founder at Drift) argue that product-based differentiation is vanishing. It’s like they thought about the attendees and what they need and then designed a format focused on them.

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Video Hosting Platforms: Which Is Best for Your Business?

ConversionXL

For example, it was how Loom’s co-founder and CEO, Joe Thomas, responded to me when I asked for information about the platform: The platform uses Loom’s desktop app. Screen recordings upload automatically, and you get a link to share the video with co-workers or customers. Still, it fills some video marketing needs.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 36: Jim Semick and Peter Arvai

Steve Blank

The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Peter Arvai , co-founder of Prezi , an interactive presentation platform. a company that aggregates data on treatment outcomes for hospital patients.

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Out of the Crisis #26: Brian Armstrong of Coinbase on cryptocurrency, being mission-oriented, and institution building

Startup Lessons Learned

Just before the IPO, I had a far-reaching conversation with co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong as he approached this major milestone for the company he co-founded back in 2012. I'm the co-founder and CEO of Coinbase. It's one of those things that founders can do sometimes where other employees are afraid to do it.

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