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Why The Haters are Wrong About Growth Hacking

Both Sides of the Table

He even used some terminology near and dear to my heart. “Growth hacking perpetuates this myth that you can magically achieve hockey-stick growth by using short-term “hacks.” “ I have always encouraged teams to think about growth as daily blocking-and-tackling rather than a dark art. . We were here first.”

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Startup Recruiting Hacks

This is going to be BIG.

One of the cool things about being a fund that works with so many early stage companies is that bringing the whole portfolio together in one place results in a lot of collaborative learning opportunities. Finding the right person is hard, but it also starts with being a volume game. That's something I learned at Path 101.

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Raising $$ on AngelList? Working w/ McClure? Ask Jody Sherman

Both Sides of the Table

Because my wife is a superstar she published them all on a blog here along with much other wonderful type-A mom advice. But life would have been much easier if we could have just gone to EcoMom and let them do the vetting for us. It worked like a charm. He had just written another one of his way-over-the-top blog posts.

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Open Angel Forum San Fran – Team Calacanis Raises the Bar

Both Sides of the Table

This showed me that the system worked well. They’ve done some clever things to improve the trust factor like doing background checks and other verification techniques to improve the trust people have in working with service providers. For me the sooner we get this stuff out of Craigslist and into real systems the better.

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How to approach and make an introduction to a VC

This is going to be BIG.

No matter how much I or any of the team here at First Round made themselves accessable through Office Hours, LinkedIn, Twitter, speaking, blogging, etc., No matter how much I or any of the team here at First Round made themselves accessable through Office Hours, LinkedIn, Twitter, speaking, blogging, etc., The Cold Intro.

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Where to start an online store: The best places for eCommerce

The Zapier Blog

Location is everything in retail—no one can shop at your store if they can't find it. That applies just as much to eCommerce as it does to brick-and-mortar stores, and for the same reason: you want to open in a place with regular traffic that's convenient to get to. Chief among them: opening where your target customers are.

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Investor Jarrod Dicker on how “the emergence of NFTs has brought provable digital ownership to the internet. This evolution can’t be overstated.”

Hunter Walk

So I used this Five Questions to get a bit more on his own background and push on web3 developments now that he’s slinging million dollar investment checks as part of The Chernin Group. You did a lot of work in online advertising but also seem to really care about people and user experience. That worked out for me over the past decade.