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Twitter Link Roundup #50 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Lead Investors, Dipshit Companies, and Funding Every Entrepreneur – [link]. Four social media lessons from the New York Times – [link].

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Building a Great Startup Board Pt. 2

Reid Hoffman

Nearly all startups go through a “valley of the shadow death” moment when founders and investors realize that the company is facing major, even existential challenges. But it could also be a non-financial challenge, like being a social media company and facing attacks from multiple points of the political spectrum.

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Out of the Crisis #7, Brian Chesky Part 1: running Airbnb in crisis mode, being multi-stakeholder, and re-founding the company

Startup Lessons Learned

At the time it was called the green movement. Well the same could be viewed as a community, a marketplace, social media company, anything. And by the way, we ended up raising $2 billion and the lead investor, Silver Lake. You have to think about the user journeys, but its impact on the broader world.