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Habits Are The New Viral: Why Startups Must Be Behavior Experts | TechCrunch
Editor’s Note: This guest post is written by Nir Eyal, a founder of two startups and an advisor to several Bay Area incubators. Nir blogs about technology and behavior design at nirandfar.com.
A lot has been written on the process of joining a startup, and I’ve written a bit on the topic. Less is written about what to do once you join. Truth is, that’s when the fun starts, and it’s important to optimize your experience from day one.
Eric Stromberg — How to Make an Impact During the First Month of Your Startup Job
Why Engineers Distrust Business People
Anyone in tech can vouch for the rift between engineers and business people.
Paul Graham and Y Combinator just got the Wired treatment. Steven Levy writes a long and loving article which evokes what it’s like to go through the program (or at least what it’s like to be a fly on the wall watching startups who go through the program). A big part of the Y Combinator experience is learning from Paul Graham, who is like a Jedi master for startups.
What It’s Like To Go Through Y Combinator (The Wired Version)
Today’s post is a subtle one about positioning yourself in a presentation. This might be a VC meeting but also might just be a sales or biz dev meeting.
Quick Practical, Tactical Tips for Presentations | Both Sides of the Table
Lessons Learned
TLDR: Brant Cooper and Patrick Vlaskovits , authors of The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development are back with a new book called The Lean Entrepreneur .
A VC: Airbnb
When you walk into our conference room at Union Square Ventures, you see the box of cereal on the right on our conference room credenza next to a wifi router and a jar of Jolly Ranchers.A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Mark Suster ( @msuster ), a 2x entrepreneur, now VC at GRP Partners .
Entrepreneurship Interview and Business Case Study
The following is a case study on the psychology of entrepreneurs conducted by Saras Sarasvathy, a professor at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business.
s Entrepreneurship Corner: Guy Kawasaki, Garage Technology Ventures - Creating Enchantment [Entire Talk]
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Gartner Research VP Mike Rollings is calling for an end to Taylorism as a management doctrine.