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Feel Giving Back is Bad for Business? We Know We’re on the Right Track.

Bain Public

Over the last year, through ongoing giving to Canadian accelerators, we’ve contributed over 700 hours of pro bono work for young up and coming startups and entrepreneurs. The standout component is our one-on-one time with the startup founders. Running a startup is not easy work.

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5 Business ‘Rules’ Worth Breaking

Business of Software Conference

Cohen starts his presentation by telling a story about how he started blogging in 2009. Here’s the analogy: None of those things are going to make or break the startup either’, he explains. For Cohen and Smart Bear, solving simple problems was a bad strategy. Rule Worth Breaking #1: There are rules to success in business.

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Lean UX author Jeff Gothelf on why design must have a seat at the table

Intercom, Inc.

If an organization’s founders aren’t designers and don’t come from a background where well-designed products played a key role in their lives, it can often be the last discipline to be brought onboard the team. On a bad day, a lot more of it got thrown away. My responsibility was to build a design team in that new agile way of working.

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Top 10 UX Agencies For Your Project

The Product Coalition

In the startup world, making software user-friendly and easy to use has become a real trend lately. These fields include web design, mobile app development, SaaS, and even B2B products. With a relatively small team based in Omsk, southwestern Siberia, Purrweb has compiled an impressive portfolio. and Facebook.

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Sales Hacker?s Max Altschuler on selling more with less

Intercom, Inc.

Whether you’re at an early-stage startup that’s just made its first sales hires, or part of a fast-moving sales team in a large organization, the key to success often comes down to efficiency. That means your focus should be on building the right customer profile and developing precise messaging to reach them.

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Lessons Learned as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence

Sachin Rekhi

As many of you know, I spent the better half of 2009 as an Entrepreneur -in- Residence at Trinity Ventures. Working alongside Gus Tai , Ajay Chopra , Jim Tybur , Dan Scholnick , and the rest of the Trinity team provided an inside look into the world of venture capital. Venture Funding is not for Every Startup. Seek Leverage.

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Women in Tech – Female CxOs Share their Challenges in Tech Startups – with Melissa Kwan, Alice de Courcy, Maja Voje, Laura Erdem & others

Userpilot

So I talked to several female leaders in SaaS – about their experience with breaking into leadership positions in tech startups – what challenges they’ve faced, and how they managed to overcome them. Sima Banijamali : “I started in tech in 2009, and in 2010 I moved to Sweden from Iran and started studying.