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Co-founder Nathaniel Ru draws on his experience scaling Sweetgreen to offer startups a clearer window into how rapidly growing companies can stay connected with customers, partners and employees.

What Sweetgreen Can Teach Startups About Scaling Intimacy

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This online outdoor gear and clothing company blends service and sales to craft a customer experiences that wows. VP of Sales and Customer Service Chris Purkey walks us through how startups can learn from Backcountry's approach to beat the scale of more established competitors with authentic, white glove customer service.

How Backcountry’s Support Reps Go the Extra Mile — And Get Invited to Their Customers’ Weddings

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Organizational psychologist and Wharton professor Adam Grant jumps into unconventional workplaces to surface insights that'll help the rest of us work smarter and better. 

What Your Startup Can Learn from Astronauts, The Daily Show, and the Coach of the Boston Celtics

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Eaze CEO Jim Patterson has a theory that military and kitchen experience are solid indicators of great PMs. Here's why and what startups can look for to hire better.

Why Chefs and Soldiers Make the Best Product Managers

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USDS marketing chief and former head of marketing for Google X Janine Gianfredi shares her lessons on how to build adaptable teams, even in the most rigid and regulated environments. 

What Obama’s Tech Startup Has to Teach About Adaptability

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One Medical CTO Kimber Lockhart subscribes to a philosophy -- inspired by woodworking -- that helps startups judiciously control technical debt. Here's how it works. 

Shims, Jigs and Other Woodworking Concepts to Conquer Technical Debt

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Angus Davis, founder and CEO of Swipely, on the lessons he learned from flying that now apply to entrepreneurism.

Flying Lessons

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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.

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

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Martin Reddy, engineering lead at Pixar and CTO at ToyTalk, on why and how founders need to tell compelling stories.

Lessons from Pixar: Why Software Developers Should Be Storytellers

Sometimes the most creative, game-changing ideas come from different kinds of teachers

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