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How to Get 40 Hours of Work Done in 16.7
If you’re anything like I used to be, you work a lot – 60, 80, or even 100 hours a week. You let your work be a big part of how you define yourself. You wear…
10,000 Hours with Reid Hoffman: What I Learned | Ben Casnocha
Time to read: 50 minutes We touched down in Las Vegas only three hours before, but we were already back in the plane and flying home to San Jose on a brisk…
13 ways to make your unpaid project actually pay off
As I got off the video call, I couldn’t believe what was happening to me. After less than an hour of talking about project deliverables like moodboards, user…
The Pros, Cons, and Costs of the Top 10 Content Distribution Platforms (by Contently)
The Data Management Platform: Foundation for Right-Time Customer Engagement
The Data Management Platform: Foundation for Right-Time Customer Engagement New Whitepaper by IAB and Winterberry Group Over the last decade, the worlds of…
The Founder’s Guide To Selling Your Company
For most founders, selling a company is a life changing event that they have had no training for. At Y Combinator , one big thing we help our startups with is…
How Successful People Stay Productive and In Control | LinkedIn
TalentSmart has tested more than a million people and found that the upper echelons of top performance are filled with people who are high in emotional…
What Microsoft Is this the Altair Basic of?
February 2015
One of the most valuable exercises you can try if you want to understand startups is to look at the most successful companies and explain why they…
13 UX Design Practices Startups Shouldn’t Overlook
There’s a lot of talk about improving UX and putting the user first, but what does a great user experience really require? I asked a panel of 13 successful…
Joe Chernov Dishes on How HubSpot Built One of the Industry’s Biggest Blogs
1138 people shared this. For all of you struggling to maintain one brand blog with quality content, get ready to feel really insecure: HubSpot has three. We…
Performance Tuning Linux Instances on EC2
At the last AWS re:Invent, I gave a talk on “Performance Tuning EC2 Instances”, where I showed how my team (Performance and Reliability Engineering) tunes Linux…
8 Great Role Models for Wowing a Crowd
Every businessperson wants and needs to be an effective public speaker. To accomplish that, however, you need role models in every category of public speaking.…