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Wispr Flow’s seven product iterations highlight the ‘why’ over the ‘what’
Hector discusses the importance of simplifying products, maintaining agility through small teams, and aligning personal growth with company growth, drawing on his experience at Wispr Flow.
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Ramp’s Max Freeman: why your first sales reps should have no quota
Max Freeman, SVP of Sales at Ramp, discusses why initial sales hires should receive 100% On-Target Earnings for their first two quarters instead of traditional quotas.
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Google Labs VP: why every company needs a ‘major’ and ‘minor’ for AI success
Josh Woodward, VP of Google Labs, discusses why every company needs to start thinking and operating like a labs team to stay competitive in the rapidly evolving tech landscape.
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The Chalk Story: How Mathematicians Got Obsessed With A Chalk And What It Means For Your Product?
Mathematicians were obsessed with a Chalk called FullTouch and the story has many lessons for product leaders and founders.
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Conditions precedent during fund raise [Whiteboard Friday]
Conditions precedent (popularly known as CP) is a list of activities that investor requires a startup to finish before they actually put in the money. Many tasks in this list is derived…
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Conditions precedent during fund raise [eLagaan Whiteboard Friday]
Conditions precedent (popularly known as CP) is a list of activities that investor requires a startup to finish before they actually put in the money. Many tasks in this list is derived…
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Fake Product Market Fit: The Signs!
You either have a product market fit or you build fake metrics to get there (even unintentionally). But what are the signs to understand?
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Sale of shares by Founders [eLagaan Whiteboard Friday]
Founders may need to sell their shares to 3rd parties (partly or fully) depending on their requirements. Sale of shares is a regulated process agreed with investors and other shareholders of the…
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Zero to Hero: Pre-launch Growth Lessons From Spellbreak Game, which Gained 600K pre-alpha signups!
If there’s one thing you take away from this talk, it should be this: No one cares about your game. Spellbreak used Imgur, Reddit, YouTube, and Discord to gain 600,000 pre-alpha signups…
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Founders vesting [eLagaan Whiteboard Friday]
Though Founders hold a substantial stake in the company during incorporation, they need to go through a vesting schedule to protect their interest in the company. This schedule can start from incorporation…
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Beyond Tiktok: Here is how Sumit of Chingari App is focused on growth and retention.
Welcome to a fresh episode of GrowthTalkies.com, a series of conversations on growth and retention which NextBigWhat has launched in partnership with WebEngage. In this episode, we have Sumit Ghosh – running…
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Founder Lock-in [eLagaan Whiteboard Friday]
When you raise money, the investors want the founders to stay back and run the show. Although you may have agreed for a reverse vesting schedule, but while onboarding investors they may…
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How Product (development) works and here is how it can be better
How does product development actually work? Do hard launch dates actually help in the long run? This thread by Shreyas brings some good perspective. » NextBigWhat’s #Threadmill brings you curated Twitter threads…