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The Founder Institute: Helping Founders to Build Great Companies

The Founder Institute: Helping Founders to Build Great Companies
Bachelor Haus vies for Slice of the $9bn Online Furniture Industry, featured in LA Business Journal Bachelor Haus was featured in an LA Business Journal article titled Moving In: Niche-focused Online Furniture Dealers work to click with Internet-Cautious Manufaturers. Bachelor Haus is an online furniture store featuring carefully selected room sets for young, modern men. The company, and its Founder & CEO Adam Acheson, are Graduates of the Los Angeles Founder Institute. Read More San Diego Grad Kaliki Launches its Audio-on-Demand Service on Chevy Vehicles, Featured in USA Today

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Steve Blank Teaches Entrepreneurs How To Fail Less Editor’s Note: This guest post is written by Derek Andersen, who is the founder of StartupGrind and Vaporware Labs, and is a former entertainment development manager at Electronic Arts. While secretly wanting to be an entrepreneur but working at Electronic Arts, I would sometimes sneak out early and jet to Stanford campus to crash Steve Blank’s entrepreneurial lecture series. Steve literally wrote the book on customer development with “Four Steps To The Epiphany” and now he’s back again co-authoring a 500-page reference guide with Bob Dorf called “The Startup Owner’s Manual”. How to answer "What is your greatest weakness?" - PatchSpace Blog Humans are creatures of habit, and creatures of ritual. These habits and rituals are comforting to us, and give a sense of structure to our lives and how we behave. But these rituals can crystallise, and we often work through them so religiously and mechanically that to an outsider it might well appear that the ritual works us through it, rather than the reverse. Sometimes they can take on a distinctly pathological character, as thinking about the true purpose of the activity stops, and the ritual starts serving some other end.

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Leaving your Job Most often when we talk about career risk it's in a relatively short time context. If I leave my job tomorrow, I won't be able to afford rent next month. If I just stay and work a few more 60 hour weeks, a promotion or raise is right around the corner. For our jobs, risk is all about balancing an unknown future with a certain present. Atlassian Jobs Charity Get five paid days off per year to support the cause of your choice, and feel good knowing your company donates licenses and money to nonprofits. Growth

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