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32 Business and Life Lessons: What I Learned Running Companies on 4 Different Continents

ConversionXL

Their main investor was the husband of Anita Roddick (the founder of Body Shop), who passed away. Instead, I decided to package what I know about internet marketing and build an online course for small businesses in Estonia (that’s where I’m from). I sent an email after email after email. No replies. I was wrong.<

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This Weekend

Startup Lessons Learned

Product management and customer development, KISSmetrics. Co-founder, Backblaze. Founder, House of Mikko. Co-founder and CTO, Sharethrough. rfan622 How Listening to Customers Helped Us Raise $700K in Seed Funding Mariya Genzel. Co-founder and CTO, Saygent. Founder, BlueSpark. Founder, Tout.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. In later posts I’m going to get into more detail on specific topics like hiring, raising money, what types of ideas have the potential to get big, finding your founders, and the like.