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How entrepreneurs benefit from ‘Alien Thinking’

Entrepreneurs' Organization

But the alien metaphor serves as a neat acronym for the five dimensions of our ALIEN thinking framework: A for Attention. Current innovation frameworks–think lean startup or design sprint–emphasize speed and action over reflection and strategic breaks. L for Levitation (meaning reflection). I for Imagination.

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Project Octane: Hustle & Heart

Entrepreneurs' Organization

ME/ “When we started out in 2010, we were the definition of bootstrapping entrepreneurs. Our shared commitment to unapologetically innovate formed the framework for our business. Before long, another baby was born— Pronexia.”. We sought to change the mindset of modern recruitment. That became the backbone of our business model.”.

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Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control

David Teten VC

2018 also had the fewest number of angel-led financing rounds since before 2010. He said, “We estimate that annual RBI market activity has grown 10x in the last decade, from two dozen deals a year in 2010 to upwards of 200 new company fundings completed in 2018.”

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Announcing the startups and judges onstage at TC Sessions: Mobility 2022

TechCrunch

The Singularity Platform is essentially a combo of three tools that Koop built: Koop API, Portal By Koop, and Insurability Sufficiency Framework (ISF). degree in Electrical Engineering from the Beijing Institute of Technology in 1989 and an Executive MBA from China Europe International Business School in 2010. John received his Ph.D.

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Meme Mapping: Learn to Run Better Creative Tests by Reverse-Engineering Hollywood

Reforge

Most every marketer is familiar with A/B testing, but few have a consistent framework for prioritizing what to test. As experiment backlogs spiral out of control, the process devolves to just do whatever the CEO says. He is currently writing a book on Marketing Memetics.

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How to turn an open source project into a profitable business

TechCrunch

From 2010 to today, the number of GitHub users has exploded from 500,000 to 103 million. Take PostCSS, a widely popular CSS framework built by Andrey Sitnik. New products like Meilisearch and Supabase are gaining traction exponentially faster than the legends of COSS like MongoDB, which were founded much earlier.

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My big jump: Sukhinder Singh Cassidy’s CEO journey

TechCrunch

In early 2010, almost a year after I left Google, I finally found the right opportunity and decided to join fashion technology startup Polyvore as its full-time CEO. After managing a multibillion-dollar profit and loss and leading a 2,000-person team at Google, I became the newly minted CEO of a 10-person fashion startup in February 2010.

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