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Be where your business is
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If you like startups you should love anti-trust
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Carolynn Levy, Inventor of the SAFE
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Sridhar Vembu built Zoho by questioning the conventional wisdom
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Success and Failure at Pebble
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Companies that had successful pivots
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Pots of Gold
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How Google bought Android
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I created a $350M software company knowing nothing about software (2015)
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My “Investment Mindset”
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Inside PayPal (2010)
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There’s no such thing as “a startup within a big company”
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Why There Aren't More Googles (2008)
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Small Tech
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Patio11's Law: The software economy is bigger than you think
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30 Years of iRobot
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When Tailwinds Vanish
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Things I Learned from Five Years in Climate Tech
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How the Digg team was acquihired
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Downsides to working at a tech giant
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What to Do When You Get Sherlocked by Apple
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Four Years in Startups
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What Is a Tech Company?
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Timeline of Slack’s Tech Stack Evolution
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How Nike sold its first shoes
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Someone Stole My Startup Idea: They Raised Money with My Slides? (2009)
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My Losing Battle with Enterprise Sales
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Sounding the Alarm: Now Is the Time to Be a Cockroach
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There was a time when search engines were a thing, and it seems they still are
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Founding Stories Are Myths
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How Backblaze Got Started (2017)
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Amazon, Facebook and Google can all be beaten
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Diane Greene’s Advice for Founders [video]
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Now UI Kit – A Bootstrap 4 UI kit
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Exponential growth devours and corrupts
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What Hardware startups can learn from Pebble
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Watching Larry Ellison Become Larry Ellison
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How to Develop an App Like Instagram
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How I Created a $350M Software Company Knowing Nothing About Software
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Regretting the Golden Handcuffs: Beware the Costs of Burnout
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How Pocket Hit 20M Users with 20 People
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Why Has Apple Spawned So Few Startups?
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What Microsoft is this the Altair Basic of?
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Staying Hungry, Staying Foolish
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Why Small Businesses Are Starting to Win Again
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You’ll Always Miss Being in the Basement
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How Design Thinking Transformed Airbnb Into a Billion Dollar Business
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LinkedIn's Series B Pitch to Greylock: Pitch Advice for Entrepreneurs
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There's a .00006% Chance of Building a Billion Dollar Company
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What Everyone Should Know About How Talent is Bought and Sold
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Smart Things Jeff Bezos Has Said
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Rich vs. King in the Real World: Why I sold my company
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When to Sell Your Company
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Life and Career Lessons – 2012
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Exploiting Silicon Valley For Profit (and Maybe Fun)
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An Open Letter To Those Not Employed At Instagram
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Exit Interview: The creators of no-longer-with-us products explain
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How Dropbox Became The Startup Steve Jobs Wished To Own – with Drew Houston
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Why Palantir Makes My Head Hurt
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Zuckerberg: If I Were Starting A Company Now, I Would Have Stayed In Boston
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Lead Bullets
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USV invests in Duck Duck Go
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Some lessons learned
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Why I Sold My Startup to Google
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Insight From Dropbox: Failure Is Not The Worst Outcome, Mediocrity Is
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Finally: Facebook Co-Founder Opens the Curtain on Two-Year Old Asana
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Why We Desperately Need a New (and Better) Google
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Why Wesabe Lost to Mint
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You can not buy ideas or talent
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What Happened to Yahoo
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Why we need to abolish software patents
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What were the key decisions that Page and Brin made in the early days of Google
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All the wrong reasons for Stack Overflow's VC chase
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Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 2: They Raised Money With My Slides?
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All this learning means nothing until you make something happen
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Rich vs. King in the Real World: Why I sold my company
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Dealing with impossible crises - Relentless resourcefulness at work
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The High-Res Society
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Why There Aren't More Googles
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What I learned getting acquired by Google
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The man who killed Google Search?
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The danger of the mediocre success when testing startup hypotheses (2023)
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