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I'm walking away from the product I spent a year building
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Culture
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Sometimes, great business lessons can come from unexpected people. There is a lot you can learn from how the most successful entertainers and athletes manage their careers.
Modern Entrepreneurship
Testing new business ideas: Learnings from Owlet [part 1]
“Don’t fall in love with your initial idea.”
A content-first approach to product onboarding
Focus on content first because it makes a terrible bandage for a broken product.
Diversity is an innovation metric
Diversity in your company means going beyond bringing in diversity in terms of race, gender etc. It’s about fostering different perspectives.
Product
Product designers should forget about coding. Learn product management instead
A plea for, as a designer, having both product design and product manager skills to develop a better product.
Team
A decade of remote work
Reflections on remote work: hiring, equipment, team values - all become perhaps even more important when working or establishing a team remotely.
Hiring at a startup’s early stage: Venture Voices
Hiring the wrong employee can be more costly than not hiring at all. Avoid making that mistake and learn about other important hiring practices in this interview with three early stage venture capitalists.
Finance
Seed fundraising — Meeting requirements
An overview of tactical strategies to help you out in the competitive landscape of seed funding.
How to navigate the journey to series A: Lessons from investors and their portfolios
This article offers practical insights into what factors make or break a startup.
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Thank you for finishing issue #226 & credits
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