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How to maintain engineering velocity as you scale
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Focus is saying no to good ideas
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How to communicate why your startup is worth joining
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What I Learned at Clubhouse
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What good cash-strapped hiring looks like
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Prioritization as a Superpower
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My startup is broken
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Things we did not do while reaching $2M ARR
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Desperation-Induced Focus
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Do things, tell people (2012)
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The Mom Test – How to talk to customers
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Use Pixar's story formula to win over investors
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Move fast, but understand the problem first
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How Notion pulled itself back from the brink of failure (2019)
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Pitching your early stage startup
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Do Things that Don't Scale (2013)
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Lessons for Early Stage Founders
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Do things that don't require scale
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Startup mistakes: Lessons from failed startups
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Mistakes That Kill Startups (2006)
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How Billion Dollar Marketplaces Are Built
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How to Kickstart and Scale a Marketplace
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What skills are most crucial for running small internet companies?
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The Biggest Mistakes First-Time Founders Make [video]
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What I Learned Co-Founding Dribbble
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Startup idea checklist
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Giving a name to my sales anxiety
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Zero to $1B: Lessons Scaling a Startup
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Writing things down (how to know what to do next)
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Startup Playbook (2015)
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The red flags and magic numbers that investors look for in startup's metrics
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Lessons From a Failed Startup — From and For First Time Founders
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Mistakes we made in our company’s first 8 years
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Cold calling for my startup and how I learned to embrace the challenge
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Pitching Your Startup
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Things learned while running your own self-funded startup
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YC’s Essential Startup Advice
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Pitching your early-stage startup
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Do Things That Don’t Scale (2013)
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Finding the Energy to Work on Your Side Hustle
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Reasons I Won’t Fund You
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Startups in 13 Sentences (2009)
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Tenacity
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Startup Playbook
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Speed as a Habit
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Let It Crash the Right Way (2009)
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What I'd tell myself about startups if I could go back 5 years
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Startup advice, briefly
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Startup Priorities
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The Psychology of Color in Marketing and Branding
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Lecture 3: How to Start a Startup
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How to Start a Startup, Lecture 7: How to Build Products Users Love, Part I
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Super successful companies
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Do “Shitty” Work
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Startup lessons
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How things get done
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Do Things that Don't Scale
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Startup advice
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How to use a Reddit-clone to boost company culture
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Treehouse gets $7M to bring learn-to-code programs to high schools
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Check you're wearing trousers first
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Start Something Small
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The most common failure mode is failing to show up
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Kickstarter is Not a Store
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Entreporn: Learning vs doing vs wasting time
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How to hack the beliefs that are holding you back
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From being a programmer to becoming an entrepreneur - Lesson 0
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Getting Real book is now free PDF
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The Scarcest Resource at Startups is Management Bandwidth
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Killing Your Startup By Listening to Customers
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Do Things, Tell People.
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The things first time founders do…
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What we're *really* afraid of
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Hiring Employee #1
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"That's what sold me. One slide."
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Silence: Because I talked so rarely, people took the time to listen to me
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Never say “no,” but rarely say “yes.”
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What I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Startups 4 Years Ago
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8 [Startup] Things I’m Better At Now That I’m 30
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Your Worst Enemy Is Yourself
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Why You Haven't Launched
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Questions you'd be crazy not to ask at the start of your next project
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Strategy is Not a To Do List
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Lessons from 150 startup pitches
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Don’t bite the shit sandwich
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Turning on your Reality Distortion Field
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How old were you when you decided to start giving up?
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Startup Therapy: Questions to ask yourself every month
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Startup Advice in just three words
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Dirty Little Secret of Success
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Startups in 13 Sentences
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Fighting Infomania: Why 80% of Your Reading Is a Waste of Time (2016)
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Avoid blundering: 80% of a winning strategy
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I keep a WTF notebook (2021)
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A bunch of programming advice I'd give to myself 15 years ago
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