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Finding joy in what you're building + building a Unicorn (Spendesk) and balancing transparency with confidence w/ Jordane Giuly, CEO and Founder of Defacto

You need to have fun on a day to day basis. I work for pleasure and for the pleasure of building quality stuff, quality product, quality relationships with your team, customers and investors.

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Should you launch a free product? + solving for the "accidental IT manager" w/ Martin Pannier, CEO of Primo

Free is not enough. You also need to have a strong value proposition and established brand awareness.

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Raising $10M from Founders Fund + what to look for in co founders with Parker Gilbert, CEO of Numeric

These workflows. These processes. They should and will look extremely different than they do in 10 years time. You're able to bake in this level of intelligence so fundamentally into the software that today now passes the CPA exam.

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The "Mamba" of brand marketing and the future of MarTech with Adam Katz, CEO of Sightly

I'm trying to do this better myself, from a vulnerability standpoint, I'm always trying to get better. I'm learning to try to help myself to help others. Brands need to think the same way. If they believe in their own products and their own vision and the way they feel, and they don't let every consumer decision change that course, they may actually be more powerful.

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Lessons learned from 300 pitch meetings w/ Andrew Firestone, CEO of Mermaid Chart

You have to assume that this could take up to a thousand meetings to get this done. And if you get to a thousand meetings your business is probably not a right fit for a venture or you're not right fit for being a founder.

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From the kitchen to the boardroom w/ Matt Wadiak, Co founder of Blue Apron and CleanUp

LIke Blue Apron's recipes, you do everything you can first, chopping, prepping, get everything ready, and then cook. Entrepreneurs should think about their work similarly, get your stuff together, and then go launch your product and be ready to anticipate the market. The old adage of being an entrepreneur is like jumping out of an airplane and assembling a hang glider on the way down is silly.

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