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The Double Standard of Female CEOs Moving Fast and Breaking Things

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Some people don’t like to take responsibility for their own s. Investors let him control the board as long as he continued to make them paper rich, and then actually rich--so they couldn’t technically force him out. Take the story of luggage startup Away’s CEO Steph Korey. They blame everything in their life on somebody else.

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Findings is GitHub for Ideas

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Sure there were sites like Goodreads, but all of them required manual input--and in a world where you're reading short form, long form, novels and blog posts, having a site just be about reading books didn't really cover my reading experience well. What makes the system truly powerful is the way that it fosters private serendipity.

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19 Strategies for Managing Risk in a Startup

Startup Blogpost

Ewen Finser , Founder, The Digital Merchant Utilize a Hypothesis-Driven Framework One essential strategy that we’ve utilized to manage risks in our startup journey is the adoption of a hypothesis-driven framework. This allowed us to explore different verticals and find what worked best for us.

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Silicon Valley is a surprisingly clubby ecosystem: FC's Alex Mittal

FundersClub

FundersClub sees one of its core missions as opening up the opaque world of Silicon Valley to its founders, getting them connected to what is an antiquated system in many ways. Being an effective founder means questioning current paradigms, asking ‘Is there a better way to do this—and am I the person to do it?’

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten VC

(To see the video above, please click the image, and then click on the Play button.). Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . When I was single, I registered for (a lot of) dating websites. That’s why 40 million Americans use online dating sites.

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Venture capitalists eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten VC

(To see the video above, please click the image, and then click on the Play button.). Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . When I was single, I registered for (a lot of) dating websites. That’s why 40 million Americans use online dating sites.

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My 20 Year Journey to Overnight Success. Ramon Ray’s Black Enterprise Interview.

Smart Hustle Magazine

Often times we see “success” and think that it was “overnight” We forget that most of the business success we see, was a slow and steady progression of mistakes, of learning. Three or more steps forward and 1 step backward. We forget it was many lonely nights of tears and misery until the breakthrough happened.