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Lean Meets Wicked Problems

Steve Blank

I just spent a month and a half at Imperial College London co-teaching a “Wicked” Entrepreneurship class. Co mpanies also face Wicked problems. He presented to organizations in the Netherlands, Chile, Spain, the UK (Ministry of Defense and the BBC), and aerospace companies. How to map stakeholders and systems’ dynamics?

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How to get creative with your domain name registration

The Next Web

Stef Lewandowski , co-founder of Makeshift.io, which has launched apps attending.io , hiremyfriend.io domain also references “input/output”, something that Courtney Boyd Myers , founder of audience.io Cofounder of Greenhouse.io says founder Kellee Khalil. “These new.io and wrangler.io , says, “.io io” as well.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

Both Sides of the Table

It was the closest I could get to Spain. I didn’t have someone willing to offer me a job in Spain. I thought if I could live and work in Spain I could become bilingual, but I never got the opportunity. You’ve got entrepreneurs and founders who are really – a lot of them are in the very early stage of their startup.

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Common B2B Challenges and How To Solve Them

ConversionXL

Last September (2020), six months after the 1st lockdown, my co-founder Vladimir Blagojevic and I decided to run market research to figure out what challenges B2B companies face and how they solve them. Many customers think about the solution or service as a fancy add-on, but not as a part of operational processes.

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“To build a community, you need to focus much more on the user than on the buyer” - Snyk’s Guy Podjarny

Cracking the Code

Snyk customers and users collectively have run more than 300 million tests in the last 12 months and fixed more than 30 million vulnerabilities in the last 90 days. What was your approach to picking co-founders, and what advice would you give entrepreneurs on this? I think having a co-founder is very important.

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[Interview] Deekron Krikorian Of MotionTraxx

YoungUpstarts

My cofounder, Jason Keck, heads up our tech and runs everything related to our app. With me in Spain, we were spread across 3 time zones. The lesson there is that you can benefit from having a great cofounder. What was the biggest challenge for your startup with you, the founder, being away all summer? How did you plan?

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10 Companies Want To Show You The Money

YoungUpstarts

by Pabla Ayala, cofounder of pFunk Media Is your holiday gift-giving list becoming longer and pricier than your current wallet can handle? For $5 users can purchase a personalized holiday greeting card, video message, customized voice over recordings, translation or even order a small hand crafted gift.