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How to close your first $1M in sales with Tim Zheng (ZenProspect)
At the end of the day, companies have to make money. In Silicon Valley this self-evident truth can be an uncomfortable difficulty for some...
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Starting up in an AI-first world with Jeremy Howard (fast.ai)
Artificial Intelligence naturally favors companies that can wield large armies of PhDs, gigantic GPU clusters, and massive datasets, so it’s...
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Tim Anglade
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Riding Platform Shifts with David Helgason (Unity)
The founder of Unity recounts the platform shifts their video game engine survived & even thrived on, from PC to Consoles, Flash games, Mobile and...
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Tim Anglade
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Beyond Performance: How Narrative, Targeting & Sequencing affect Fundraising with Nick Mehta (Gainsight)
Many variables go into closing a successful venture capital round. Your company’s performance on core metrics is probably the biggest one, and most...
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Tim Anglade
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“Marketing doesn’t work on Developers” Developers are the new kingmakers — so how does one reach them?
Developers are the new kingmakers, driving up the valuation, and sometimes revenue, of companies like Twilio, Xamarin, Docker and many others...
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Tim Anglade
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Why Does Technical Recruiting Suck So Much? with Aline Lerner (interviewing.io)
If you’re a founder or manager hiring engineers, you’ve probably been there… Struggling to find the right talent, dealing with an unending...
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Tim Kopp
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Why DevOps is a Business Trend with Adam Jacob (Chef)
The convergence between Software Development & Operations has had a deep impact on the technical stack used by startups & industry giants alike..
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Tim Anglade
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This startup closed its office and went remote-only with Sytse ‘Sid’ Sijbrandij (GitLab)
Many workplaces are remote-friendly, letting you work a day from home every now & then. But what if your company abandonned the concept of a physic...
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Tim Anglade
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The money seems to find them Success & Startups outside Silicon Valley
Building a Startup in Louisville, Kentucky
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Tim Anglade
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The Difference between Technology & Product with Linden Tibbets (IFTTT)
In the Valley few will admit to just building Technology — everyone wants to think they are building a Product, something that has some design...
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Tim Anglade
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Simple rules to take over the world with Michelle Zatlyn (Cloudflare)
How does one go from friends & family using a prototype, to a global software behemoth used around the world by hundreds of millions of people?...
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Tim Anglade
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A VC Reveals the Metrics They Use to Evaluate Startups with Susan Liu (Scale Venture Partners)
So what actually happens before a VC decides to invest in your company? Susan Liu looks at hundreds of startups every year for B2B software...
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Tim Anglade
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Successful open-source companies don’t open-source much software with Mårten Mickos (HackerOne)
Open-source seems to be the uncontested standard for software startups. Yet investors are leery of investing in the OSS business models of...
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Tim Anglade
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The intimate power of a good content strategy with Shahruz Shaukat (Super Deluxe)
Content Marketing is an increasingly common part of our marketing toolset. The promise of millions of eyeballs coming to your website, through...
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Tim Anglade
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A VC explains the one thing you should know about VCs: their Investment Thesis with Rory O'Driscoll (Scale Venture Partners)
What do VCs look for? It’s not uncommon in Silicon Valley to see equally smart firms, equipped with the same information, picking very different...
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