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Finding & Nurturing Top Talent | Elpie Bannister & Alex Yang | BoS Europe 2019

Business of Software Conference

Alex Yang: For those of you who are wondering why you just got Rick-rolled, Elpie and I decided to crowdsource our walk on song from our team. The best candidates they have their pick of where to work and it’s really hard for small startup to compete. Or ‘let me teach you how to start a startup’.

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Humans Are Awesome/Terrible At Risk Management | Andy Ellis, Akamai | BoS USA 2019

Business of Software Conference

This is actually crowdsourced words I didn’t even come up with these on my own. Probably not – especially not if you’re a startup. Well here’s the reality for many of you who are in startups and small businesses that are not yet sustainably profitable. Startups are like that. Absolutely great.

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Lessons on building a viral consumer app: The story of Saturn

Lenny Rachitsky

They launched the company back in 2019, while still students at the University of Pennsylvania, and today have scaled the app to millions of users and nearly 20,000 schools. We also note some of the (many) lessons we’ve learned from other major social networks and social utilities since getting started ourselves in 2019.