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🌟 Featured Blogs

Hiring engineers at early stage startups
Community
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Aug 4, 2022
Hiring engineers at early stage startups
How to get the most out of online communities
Community
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Jul 21, 2022
How to get the most out of online communities
Getting started: a beginner's guide to crypto
Crypto
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Jun 30, 2022
Getting started: a beginner's guide to crypto
Accelerator review: Newchip - an equity-free option for startup founders
Accelerators
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Jun 23, 2022
Accelerator review: Newchip - an equity-free option for startup founders

🤌 Best Practices

Survival Mode: evaluating job opportunities in a market reset
Best Practices
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Jun 16, 2022
Survival Mode: evaluating job opportunities in a market reset
Mindful leadership and creating a people-first company
Best Practices
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Sep 9, 2021
Mindful leadership and creating a people-first company
Learnings from 8 years in Product: an AMA with Reza Shirazi
Best Practices
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Aug 26, 2021
Learnings from 8 years in Product: an AMA with Reza Shirazi
Mastering your narrative as a generalist
Best Practices
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Jul 19, 2021
Mastering your narrative as a generalist
Cake or Death? How to intelligently load-test a startup idea
Best Practices
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Mar 12, 2021
Cake or Death? How to intelligently load-test a startup idea
Real processes that work: user-centered problem solving
Best Practices
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Feb 26, 2021
Real processes that work: user-centered problem solving
How to be your own growth marketer
Best Practices
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Feb 25, 2021
How to be your own growth marketer
The importance of prioritizing health as an operator & builder
Best Practices
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Jan 23, 2021
The importance of prioritizing health as an operator & builder
The role of product managers and experimentation
Best Practices
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Jan 23, 2021
The role of product managers and experimentation
The value of patience and persistence in your career
Best Practices
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Jan 23, 2021
The value of patience and persistence in your career

💼 Career Pivots

Changing gears: making the move from corporate enterprises to startup environments
Career Pivots
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Mar 31, 2022
Changing gears: making the move from corporate enterprises to startup environments
3 Lessons from switching my career in 2021
Career Pivots
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Dec 24, 2021
3 Lessons from switching my career in 2021
Pivoting and Parenting at a startup (in a pandemic)
Career Pivots
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Aug 19, 2021
Pivoting and Parenting at a startup (in a pandemic)
Paths to product
Career Pivots
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May 14, 2021
Paths to product
Making sense of career pivots and communicating with managers
Career Pivots
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Apr 12, 2021
Making sense of career pivots and communicating with managers
Getting in the career move mindset
Career Pivots
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Feb 19, 2021
Getting in the career move mindset
From one island to another
Career Pivots
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Feb 12, 2021
From one island to another
Breaking momentum through career stepping
Career Pivots
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Jan 28, 2021
Breaking momentum through career stepping
Pivoting from enterprise to startup and engineering to business, in a pandemic
Career Pivots
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Jan 28, 2021
Pivoting from enterprise to startup and engineering to business, in a pandemic
Pivoting from Chief of Staff to Founder
Career Pivots
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Jan 23, 2021
Pivoting from Chief of Staff to Founder
Mentorship, being a “Founders’ VC", and balancing investing and operating
Career Pivots
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Jan 20, 2021
Mentorship, being a “Founders’ VC", and balancing investing and operating

🛠 Building in Public

Building better founders and moving with purpose - Matthew Busel, Whalesync
Building In Public
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Jan 6, 2022
Building better founders and moving with purpose - Matthew Busel, Whalesync
Disrupting a category and building sustainably with Eli Halliwell, CEO of Hairstory
Building In Public
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Dec 10, 2021
Disrupting a category and building sustainably with Eli Halliwell, CEO of Hairstory
Pivoting at the early stages with Cathy Tie, Jordan Huck, and Genevieve Ryan Bellaire
Building In Public
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Nov 19, 2021
Pivoting at the early stages with Cathy Tie, Jordan Huck, and Genevieve Ryan Bellaire
Taking the leap (realistically)
Building In Public
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Aug 12, 2021
Taking the leap (realistically)
Designing remote-first startup teams
Building In Public
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Jun 16, 2021
Designing remote-first startup teams
Everything you need to know about newsletters
Building In Public
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May 10, 2021
Everything you need to know about newsletters
Building in the age of diversity enlightenment
Building In Public
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Apr 23, 2021
Building in the age of diversity enlightenment
Giving yourself permission to write and build
Building In Public
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Apr 2, 2021
Giving yourself permission to write and build

🎲 Entrepreneurship

Building in web3: lessons learned and innovations to come
Entrepreneurship
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Mar 3, 2022
Building in web3: lessons learned and innovations to come
Getting started: building a web3 business
Entrepreneurship
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Feb 17, 2022
Getting started: building a web3 business
The future of entrepreneurship in a post-Covid world
Entrepreneurship
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Feb 3, 2022
The future of entrepreneurship in a post-Covid world
On acting on your passions and forgiving yourself as an early stage builder and founder
Entrepreneurship
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Dec 2, 2021
On acting on your passions and forgiving yourself as an early stage builder and founder
Founding an idea and finding joy with Jiive CEO, Jhanelle Elissa
Entrepreneurship
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Oct 14, 2021
Founding an idea and finding joy with Jiive CEO, Jhanelle Elissa
What to know about working with technical co-founders and engineers
Entrepreneurship
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Jun 1, 2021
What to know about working with technical co-founders and engineers
Creating feedback loops and the types of career advice you should ignore
Entrepreneurship
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Jan 23, 2021
Creating feedback loops and the types of career advice you should ignore
Tips for solo founders and what great mentorship looks like
Entrepreneurship
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Jan 23, 2021
Tips for solo founders and what great mentorship looks like

❤️ Community

Hiring engineers at early stage startups
Community
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Aug 4, 2022
Hiring engineers at early stage startups
How to get the most out of online communities
Community
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Jul 21, 2022
How to get the most out of online communities
The pandemic is ending, but virtual connections have only just begun
Community
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Mar 25, 2021
The pandemic is ending, but virtual connections have only just begun
The four categories of community curation
Community
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Feb 9, 2021
The four categories of community curation

☘️ Mentorship

What I learned about mentorship as a first gen student
Mentorship
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Mar 19, 2021
What I learned about mentorship as a first gen student
How to build your personal advisory board
Mentorship
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Jan 29, 2021
How to build your personal advisory board

💸 Angel Investing

Acquiring small businesses with Mudit Rawat and Curtis Kline
Angel Investing
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Oct 7, 2021
Acquiring small businesses with Mudit Rawat and Curtis Kline

🚀 Accelerators

Accelerator review: Newchip - an equity-free option for startup founders
Accelerators
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Jun 23, 2022
Accelerator review: Newchip - an equity-free option for startup founders
Accelerators in detail: slowing down to speed up
Accelerators
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Jan 20, 2022
Accelerators in detail: slowing down to speed up
Accelerators in review: startup founders on the USA’s top accelerator programs
Accelerators
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Dec 19, 2021
Accelerators in review: startup founders on the USA’s top accelerator programs
Navigating accelerators and studios: Yasmin Cruz Ferrine, Gadi Borovich, Greg Maiatico
Accelerators
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Sep 23, 2021
Navigating accelerators and studios: Yasmin Cruz Ferrine, Gadi Borovich, Greg Maiatico

🪙 Crypto

Getting started: a beginner's guide to crypto
Crypto
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Jun 30, 2022
Getting started: a beginner's guide to crypto

💰 Fundraising

A guide to pre-seed venture capital funding
Fundraising
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May 12, 2022
A guide to pre-seed venture capital funding

📣 Marketing

The Inside Scoop: What Gen Z consumers want to see from your brand’s social media
Marketing
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Mar 17, 2022
The Inside Scoop: What Gen Z consumers want to see from your brand’s social media

🧠 Mental Health

The 5 ways I learned to silence imposter syndrome
Mental Health
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Feb 10, 2022
The 5 ways I learned to silence imposter syndrome
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