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Everything I Know About Fundraising I Learned From Panhandling.

And here’s a hint: It helps to be hungry.

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Grow Up? Or Get Out?

What happens when running a company isn’t as fun as growing one?

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The Most Important Part of Scaling Your Business. Scaling Yourself!

Just as a startup has a limited supply of people, money, and resources, you as an individual are equally constrained.  There’s only so much you can do in a day.

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The Netflix Culture in Four Words: Use Your Best Judgement.

Netflix is famous for its “freedom and responsibility” culture, in which employees are given almost unimaginable latitude to do their jobs as they see fit.

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The Canada Principle.

A constant reminder to us to make sure we didn’t run around chasing what appeared to be low hanging fruit.

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Hardware is Different.

This is one of the reasons that doing a hardware startup is particularly challenging. Once you start, and have converted your idea into something physical, it’s very hard to change direction.

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No One Is Going To Steal Your Idea.

It’s unoriginal and it will never work. But neither of those things matter.

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You Know Your User . . . But Who Is Your Customer?

Users and customers are frequently one and the same.  When you go to a restaurant, you are both the user and the customer.  But think about dog food for a moment; in this case the two are quite different; your dog is the user, but you are the customer. 

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10 Tips to Ace Your Next Job Interview.

And if all else fails, just start your own company.

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I Hate Firing People.

But by far the hardest is having to fire decent people for reasons that may have nothing to do with them, except perhaps being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

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Subscriptions Eat the World

It’s amazing it took as long as it did for subscriptions to eat the world. 

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You Don’t Have to Work at Goldman Sachs. I Promise.

If, in your heart of hearts, you want to be an entrepreneur, don’t be afraid to take that on.

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