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This Weekend

Startup Lessons Learned

Product management and customer development, KISSmetrics. One caveat: if you come by, you are automatically volunteering to be subjected to some intense customer development. Fast-paced, thought-provoking and social, this Ignite features presentations from in-the-trenches entrepreneurs ready to share their lessons learned. Also: booze.

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29 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

And so, I wanted to develop a company that could solve this problem head-on. Sales can be really hard and frustrating at times — so, any way that we could effectively help them find the most targeted leads was something we wanted to develop. With that said, I’ve always found the level of choice limiting.

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Out of the Crisis #11: Jeremy Howard on the power of masks, health policy, and data science in medicine

Startup Lessons Learned

We wrote a whole new kind of development environment for writing it from scratch. In fact, largely I was plagiarizing from a guy called Petr Ludwig who had already done all this in the Czech Republic. Everybody in the Czech Republic is wearing masks." And he hooked me up with some volunteer PR people.