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Airbnb Reflections

Reid Hoffman

For a long time, when you looked at the graph, it was almost like a classic exponential “hockey stick” curve, where it’s flat for a long time, then hits the bend and takes off. THE POWER OF THE DESIGN MINDSET. But the design mindset doesn’t stop there. Now here’s an interesting coda to that story.

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Twitter Link Roundup #308 – Terrific Reads for Small Business, Entrepreneurs, Marketers, and Designers!

crowdSPRING Blog

We regularly share our favorite posts on entrepreneurship, small business, marketing, logo design , web design , startups, leadership, social media, marketing, economics and other interesting stuff! Good insight … Navigating The Make-Or-Break Years As You Create Hockey Stick Growth [link]. – [link].

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Twitter Link Roundup #308 – Terrific Reads for Small Business, Entrepreneurs, Marketers, and Designers!

crowdSPRING Blog

We regularly share our favorite posts on entrepreneurship, small business, marketing, logo design , web design , startups, leadership, social media, marketing, economics and other interesting stuff! Good insight … Navigating The Make-Or-Break Years As You Create Hockey Stick Growth [link]. – [link].

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“Lessons Learned” – A New Type of Venture Capital Pitch

Steve Blank

You already have the hockey stick and exponential growth. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. I’m at jordan.cooper@gmail.com or blogging here: jordancooper.wordpress.com Reply Alain Raynaud , on November 12, 2009 at 4:42 pm Said: Or maybe it’s just the last slide that convinced the VCs. The rest is just fluff.

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CXL Live 2019 Recap: Takeaways from Every Speaker

ConversionXL

Brian Cugelman: “Consumer Psychology, Dopamine, and Conversion Design”. Try out different tactics, tools, offers, and designs. Learning over knowledge: Knowledge is finite; design every experiment in a way that you can derive learnings, even from losses. How was it conducted? Don’t get caught up in hacks. Test it for yourself.

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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

thebarefootvc

2011 was finally the year when the media spotlight shone on how under-represented women are in almost all power structures in business, government, technology and media – and how crucial it is that we leverage the leadership skill set that they bring to the table to tackle the problems facing the world today.

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Customer Development Manifesto: Market Type (part 4) « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

A startup in a New Market (enabling customers to do something they never could before,) might be unprofitable for 5 or more years, (hopefully with the traditional hockey stick revenue curve,) while one in an Existing Market might be generating cash in 12-18 months. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Blog at WordPress.com.