#Startup

Claire Vo

clairevo

Friday was my last day at @Optimizely, a bittersweet ending to a 7 (!) year journey founding @expengine, joining Opti, and leading our product team. I shared what I've

julian rachman

julrach

I want to openly talk about one of my first-time founder mistakes while building my startup.(a thread ) When I first started building Ripplink, I wanted to build in public

Fred Destin

fdestin

1/ Beware the tail wagging the dog. Numbers you committed to your board are not your strategy.Numbers you think next round investors want to see are not your strategy. 2/

Osaretin Victor Asemota

asemota

Opera changed an important paradigm with African startups. Instead of waiting for the market, create the market. We keep thinking that if we build it they will come. They decided

DFF TRIdP

DynastyTripp

I see some debate about the merits of posting seasonal results here. I'll add a twist: lessons learned.11 teams, all in playoffs, six #1 seeds, three teams still alive.Common theme

KatySJoyce

KatySJoyce1

Time for my #freelancer #YearEnd2020 look back at this strange year in media: I had 96 stories published mostly online but some notable print ones as well. 18 others have

Paras Chopra

paraschopra

Don’t be a first-mover, be the first one to get it right(a short thread on this mental model) It's also the 6th chapter of my book https://invertedpassion.com/dont-be-a-first-mover/ 1/ Any one

Jon Yongfook

yongfook

Here are some things I’m doing to slowly grow into a sustainable, resilient business. Most of these are just common sense, customer-friendly policies that in turn forces me to build

Elizabeth Yin

dunkhippo33

Some thoughts on network effects and how it's a double edge sword: First, what are network effects? Most people get this wrong, so it's important to establish definitions upfrontRead on

Jesse Daugherty

jtdaugh

Hiring. It's hard and time consuming, but I like to think we've gotten much better at it over the past year at @investwithLEXShort thread on some lessons I've learned and

Deepak Abbot

deepakabbot

Small story: We use @Razorpay for our payouts. Saturday late night we ran out of balance as I missed the email alert. We have regular payouts using that balance. To

Bhavin Parikh

bkparikh

Someone asked me how to build a capital efficient business. @magoosh we've been able to build an 8-figure profitable (and growing!) business on 6-figure funding. Here's what worked for us:

§AlexisOhanian 7️⃣7️⃣6️⃣

alexisohanian

Halloween is always a surreal holiday for me, because on Halloween 2006, we sold @reddit to Conde Nast... the deal was months in the making and I wish I'd had

Nilofer Merchant

nilofer

A friend of mine is seeking a new exec operating role. She mentioned that 2 of her advisors were telling her she'd never get the package she wants. That the

Chase Reid

ChaseReid5

I think we all need to take a hard, serious look at the idea of employee ownership in companies. I come from the world of startups, where it's not entirely

Erin Bury

erinbury

My entire career, I've always felt that being an empathetic leader was detrimental to my success. I've known so many founders (real and in movies) who are ruthless, who yell

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