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The Double Standard of Female CEOs Moving Fast and Breaking Things

This is going to be BIG.

The tech community has been having a long-overdue conversation about mental health and work/life balance and it’s something I’ve been talking up as far back as 2006 , 2009 , and 2014 on my blog and in public. Given the average person’s opinion of female authority figures, perhaps both. I continue to emphasize that as an investor today.

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Intellectual Property for Startups in the Real World

Gust

Many thanks to David Rose , Ilana Grossman , Justin Stanwix , and the whole Gust team for making the Gust Blog such a valuable platform and resource for entrepreneurs and angel investors. I’m proud to contribute to the effort and always enjoy reading what the other authors have to say.

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Why Startups Fail: A Harvard Business School Professor’s Letter to a First-Time Founder

StartupNation

If you read books and blogs that offer encouragement to first-time founders like you, you’ll see six points emphasized repeatedly: Related: How to Overcome the Self-Sabotage of Self-Doubt. Y Combinator’s Paul Graham says, “A startup is a company designed to grow fast. Great entrepreneurs seize opportunity.

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Q&A with Dr. Karl Blanks, Winner of the Queen’s Award for Enterprise for Innovation

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Karl Blanks is an Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) London member and the co-founder of Conversion Rate Experts , a Google-authorized consultancy that scientifically converts websites’ visitors into customers. For marketing I love Claude Hopkins, author of Scientific Advertising. For business, the articles of Paul Graham.

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How to Fuel Your Startup’s Growth Engine

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Image: Created by author To keep close to the startup community, I chat with founders often. There is a classic blog post written by Paul Graham called “Do Things That Don’t Scale”. I’ll frequently get asked about what growth is, how you apply it to startups, and when you should focus on it. Trust me; I’ve been there.

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Real leaders embrace their weakness

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Doug is also the author of Rethinking Success: Eight Essential Practices for Finding Meaning in Work and Life. Years ago, my close friend Steve Case , cofounder of AOL, and I flew down to Asheville, North Carolina, for a private visit with Billy Graham. Graham’s influence in the world was beyond measure. We spoke for hours.

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An Investor’s Personal Social Media Tech Stack: In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 followers

David Teten VC

The first three tools are only relevant if you’re going to generate significant content yourself: Teten.com , my blog and content marketing strategy. I typically publish essays in an established media venue, and then cross-post it on my blog. The mailings are just roundups of recent blog posts, so don’t require extra work.

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