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A Founder’s Step-by-Step Guide to Getting Your First 1,000 Community Members
PR & Marketing

A Founder’s Step-by-Step Guide to Getting Your First 1,000 Community Members

Pivots, MVPs and Community: How Joseph Quan, Founder & CEO of Knoetic, got his startup back on track by making community his wedge. He shares his hard-won wisdom and his six-step guide for building a community like a product.

The Best Leaders are Feedback Magnets — Here’s How to Become One
Management

The Best Leaders are Feedback Magnets — Here’s How to Become One

Drawing from her career at PayPal, Intercom, GetYourGuide, and now as founder/CEO of Arise Leadership (an online leadership program that empowers women) Shivani Berry shares her playbook for attracting more feedback.

Finding Language-Market Fit: How to Make Customers Feel Like You’ve Read Their Minds
Starting Up

Finding Language-Market Fit: How to Make Customers Feel Like You’ve Read Their Minds

After more than a decade of running B2B growth teams at PayPal and investing at 500 Startups, Matt Lerner now spends his days helping early-stage startups with growth. He's seen firsthand how changes in a handful of words can yield jaw-dropping differences in conversion.

The Feedback Founders Need to Hear — How to Grow Yourself To Grow The Company
Management

The Feedback Founders Need to Hear — How to Grow Yourself To Grow The Company

After 20 years of executive coaching, Alisa Cohn shares advice for getting better at self-reflection, collecting feedback, and changing behavior.

The Playbook This Startup Used to Get Their Founders on 100+ Podcasts in 6 Months
PR & Marketing

The Playbook This Startup Used to Get Their Founders on 100+ Podcasts in 6 Months

When it comes to turbocharging brand awareness for your startup, think podcast Interviews over ads. Tom Griffin, Head of Partnerships at Levels makes the case for why you should do a podcast tour for your startup, with a step-by-step guide for getting it right.

The Playbook for Hiring the Right Marketer at the Right Time for Your Startup
PR & Marketing

The Playbook for Hiring the Right Marketer at the Right Time for Your Startup

Should you hire a brand, product or growth marketer, and how do you know when you've found the right candidate? Maya Spivak, former marketing leader at Segment and Wealthfront, unpacks her frameworks for identifying the type of marketer your startup needs, interviewing and closing candidates.

The Ultimate Guide to Running Executive Meetings — 25 Tips from Top Startup Leaders
Management

The Ultimate Guide to Running Executive Meetings — 25 Tips from Top Startup Leaders

Learn 25 tips from top leaders to run effective leadership meetings. From getting started with an executive team to crafting the agenda and tracking success.

The Minimum Viable Testing Process for Evaluating Startup Ideas
Starting Up

The Minimum Viable Testing Process for Evaluating Startup Ideas

The traditional approach is to do some customer research, throw an MVP out there as fast as possible, and hope it hits. After being early at three startups that achieved over $1M in run-rate in their first six months of going live, Gagan Biyani has landed on an approach that’s quite different.

Advice for the Pre-Product-Market Fit Days — This Founder’s Playbook for Pivoting with Purpose
Starting Up

Advice for the Pre-Product-Market Fit Days — This Founder’s Playbook for Pivoting with Purpose

CEO Tara Viswanathan shares her biggest lessons from the early years of building Rupa Health — including how to pivot your way into the right product and build the winning team.

20 Underrated Qualities to Look for in Candidates — And 50+ Interview Questions to Suss Them Out
People & Culture

20 Underrated Qualities to Look for in Candidates — And 50+ Interview Questions to Suss Them Out

We've rounded up a curated set of attributes you may be overlooking in your hiring process — and the interview questions you can use to surface them.

A UX Research Crash Course for Founders — Customer Discovery Tips from Zoom, Zapier & Dropbox
Starting Up

A UX Research Crash Course for Founders — Customer Discovery Tips from Zoom, Zapier & Dropbox

Zoom’s Jane Davis answers all of your tricky customer development questions, creating a highly tactical guide for founders flying solo on UX research as they explore startup ideas, validate concepts, iterate on prototypes, and troubleshoot common product problems.

“Get Off the Floor” and Other Career Advice from Microsoft, Looker, Reddit & Twitter
Engineering

“Get Off the Floor” and Other Career Advice from Microsoft, Looker, Reddit & Twitter

Nick Caldwell's resume includes an enviable list of companies — Microsoft, Reddit, Looker and Twitter. He shares his biggest lessons from each for a crash course in finding success across different company cultures, scales & functions.

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