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The 39 Best Pieces of Sales Advice You’ll Hear This Year
Sales

The 39 Best Pieces of Sales Advice You’ll Hear This Year

Wiley Cerilli has built huge sales teams from scratch, emerging with an arsenal of lessons for founders looking to do the same thing.

Software is Eating Hardware - Lessons for Building Magical Devices
Product

Software is Eating Hardware - Lessons for Building Magical Devices

Adam MacBeth has advised hardware companies like Jawbone and FiftyThree. Here, he offers tactics for startups to create magical products.

Spark Creativity with These Tips from Pixar's President
Management

Spark Creativity with These Tips from Pixar's President

Ed Catmull, President of Pixar, has spent his career being creative. Now he's exploring how companies can proactively ignite creativity.

This Startup Cracked a $2.4 Billion Market with Branding — Here’s Their Formula
PR & Marketing

This Startup Cracked a $2.4 Billion Market with Branding — Here’s Their Formula

Harry's has claimed a large part of the market through beautiful branding. Here, the duo behind it shares their recipe for great campaigns.

How Lumosity Spiked Active Users 10% with Complexity, Not Simplicity
Product

How Lumosity Spiked Active Users 10% with Complexity, Not Simplicity

It's not always true that simplicity makes the best product. Sometimes making things less simple will get you the users you truly want.

This Culture Deck Powers the World’s Toughest Work
People & Culture

This Culture Deck Powers the World’s Toughest Work

Possible Health endeavors to bring high-quality health care to the world's harshest environments. It's powered by incredible culture.

Spotify’s Design Lead on Why Side Projects Should Be Stupid
Design

Spotify’s Design Lead on Why Side Projects Should Be Stupid

If you take what you're doing too seriously, you're likely to squeeze the life out of it. Here's a guide to letting your projects stay stupid and fun.

I’ve Worked with Hundreds of Recruiters - Here's What I Learned
People & Culture

I’ve Worked with Hundreds of Recruiters - Here's What I Learned

TalentBin Founder Peter Kazanjy knows the qualities that make a good recruiter, and has a rubric for building out your hiring strategy.

How Fast-Growing Startups Can Fix Internal Communication Before It Breaks
Management

How Fast-Growing Startups Can Fix Internal Communication Before It Breaks

URX CEO John Milinovich knows communication is crucial and that maintaining it will be hard as they grow. Here's what he's doing about it.

8 Rare Gems from Heidi Roizen on Building a Fulfilling Life and Career
People & Culture

8 Rare Gems from Heidi Roizen on Building a Fulfilling Life and Career

Heidi Roizen has been an entrepreneur, advisor and investor. But in order to excel at work, you have to live a life that makes you happy.

What to Learn from the Man Who Managed Reddit's Community of Millions
PR & Marketing

What to Learn from the Man Who Managed Reddit's Community of Millions

Erik Martin was the first community manager wrangling the internet's noisiest forum: Reddit. Along the way, he picked up these lessons.

Dropbox's Head of Design on the Dawn of Personalized Products
Product

Dropbox's Head of Design on the Dawn of Personalized Products

As one of the first designers at Facebook and Dropbox, Soleio Cuervo has seen a lot. Now he's looking at the next trend: Personalization.

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For the founder's notepad:
"If you personally want to grow as fast as your company, you have to give away your job every couple months." – Molly Graham
“Asking ‘Why can't this be done sooner?’ methodically, reliably and habitually can have a profound impact on the speed of your organization.” – Dave Girouard
“End every meeting or conversation with the feeling and optimism you’d like to have at the start of your next conversation with the person.” – Chris Fralic
“Focus is doing things with a clear intention. It doesn’t mean you charge single-minded toward a goal. It means you pay rapt and incremental attention to how you need to turn the rudder on a project.” – Fidji Simo
“It’s essential to grow with the company — rather than having the company grow around you.” – Cristina Cordova 
“You have to be impatient with shipping, but patient with your career.” – James Everingham
“‘I trust you, make the call’ might be the six most powerful words you can hear from a manager.” – Sean Twersky
“Your job as a CEO is to build fire departments, not put out fires.” – Sam Corcos 
“Can you say with confidence that each report would want to be on your team again? If you aren’t sure that the answer is yes, it’s probably no — much like how if you have to ask, ‘Am I in love?’ you’re probably not.” – Julie Zhuo 
“People can get addicted to yak shaving. An effective engineering generalist knows when to move on. Pay attention to whether they used their time wisely, not just the results.” – Mike Krieger 
“It sounds so simple to say that bosses need to tell employees when they're screwing up. But it very rarely happens.” – Kim Scott
“You’ll know you understand the customer problem enough when you can predict 75% of what a customer tells you. Keep having these conversations until three-quarters of it is stuff you already know.” – Christina Cacioppo
“I have a rule: no company swag until the business has at least $250K of revenue or 250k users. Until then, you don’t get to “feel” the benefits of having started a company.” – Gagan Biyani
“The business model ends up becoming the business. It’s equally important as the market you’re going after and the product that you build.” – Jay Simons 
“If speed is the yin, the yang is prioritization. You can’t be fast if you don’t know what’s important.” – Jaleh Rezaei
“If you treat your connections as a kind of personal ATM you use for frequent withdrawals, you’ll quickly be disappointed (and overdrawn).” – Karen Wickre 
“Delighting the customer always yields better returns than countering or copying a competitor. It’s just a lot harder to do.” – Andy Rachleff 
“When you’re a founder, every moment you’re not writing code or getting users, you need to be making a conscious choice: Is whatever you’re doing worth your time?” – Alexis Ohanian
“‘Why would a customer not want this?’ is often a far more interesting question than why they would.” – Rick Song
“When you leave the planning process wondering if you put too many resources behind a single bet, that’s the bet that ends up succeeding. Bold ideas need bold resourcing.” – Lenny Rachitsky and Nels Gilbreth
“Treat customer development as a one-on-one with a direct report — you just want to ask the hard questions.” – Ryan Glasgow
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