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Culture
The quintessential role of conflict in innovation projects
What can we learn from the conflicts in a TV-series like Westworld? It helps to illustrate and understand that friction is an essential part of learning and innovation.
Felipe Millan (SendGrid) on bad co-founders, joining a company with a startup mindset, and happiness
"Co-founding with a friend is not necessarily a good match."
The hard thing about learning hard things
An elaborate answer to the question: how do you learn something no one can teach you?
Modern Entrepreneurship
What we learned from applying to Techstars
On what hoops to jump through and lessons learned along the way.
Growth
Why I chose customer-funded growth over taking VC money
"With a problem and a solution, you already have a customer base and can hit the ground running."
Product
Duolingo: how they nailed their product and became the #1 education app
An in-depth exploration of why and how Duolingo grew out to be such a success.
Team
Why small teams win and bigger ones fail
We have a natural tendency to scale up teams over time or appoint more people to solve a problem. This article argues differently: throw less at a problem.
Finance
On venturing
Venture means risk: "‘Venture’ in this article means the exchange of services for equity in a startup, as opposed to an investment of cash."
Your startup is NOT worth 10M
This article might help you to define the valuation of a startup.
And once you've gained funding, read here about why it's time for startups to replace stock options.
The IPO alternative no one is talking about
"In a world where IPOs are an unlikely outcome and traditional M&A exits are difficult to manufacture, there is a new alternative for liquidity starved founders and investors — The PE exit."
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Thank you for finishing issue #184 & credits
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