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Why Founders Should Prioritize Personal Development with Shopify (Podcast 502 and Video)

SaaStr

Entrepreneurship takes grit and determination, and leading a successful company can feel like a Herculean effort. Company Culture of Personal Development. As SaaS founders progress in their personal growth, they should establish a culture where this type of development and mentorship is encouraged within their company.

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Top 5 Things We Learned from BUILD in 2021

OpenView Labs

Most companies delegate this to user research, annual surveys or maybe the founder’s gut. Company culture is a main driver of innovation. Postscript (an OpenView portfolio company) has skillfully navigated the myriad talent market challenges by leading with culture. It’s not enough. The path to CEO isn’t linear.

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Blind co-founder Kyum Kim on the hidden power of anonymity

Intercom, Inc.

The company was originally founded in South Korea and made the move to Silicon Valley in 2015 – it quickly became adopted as a place for employees from the likes of Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and more to discuss the internal culture of their companies. When popular culture breeds company culture.

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PODCAST 121: Lessons From Survival Mode: How to Kickstart Your Business with Matt Rizzetta

Sales Hacker

His wife was pregnant with their first child, and he went out on a limb to try his hand at entrepreneurship. Under Rizzetta’s leadership, N6A has been ranked as one of the 50 most powerful agencies in the United States by the Observer, PRWeek’s Best Places to Work and the Top Company Cultures in America by Entrepreneur magazine.

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The 18 Outstanding Speakers at SaaStock LatAm 2019

SaaStock

Delving even deeper into the entrepreneurial seas, Patrick was Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Alpine Investors in San Francisco, as well as Program Officer at the Center for Entrepreneurship at Stanford. After a BA in Technology and an MBA, André Baldini made his first steps into IT, working in companies like Stefanini and Itaú Unibanco.

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PODCAST 146: Why Following Your Passion Is Bad Advice (and what the good advice is) with Callie Moriarty

Sales Hacker

So from there, I went back to business school to get my MBA with the goal of shifting to a focus on entrepreneurship. Callie Moriarty: I used the business school to shift to entrepreneurship, and after I graduated I joined a really small startup that was pre-product, pre-funding, pre-revenue, pre-everything really. Sam Jacobs : Cool.

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Unconventional Ways to Scale Your Company With CEO & Founder of DoNotPay, Joshua Browder (Pod 649 + Video)

SaaStr

Some stumble into the world of entrepreneurship like DoNotPay founder Joshua Browder did. As a self-proclaimed accidental entrepreneur, Browder shares a few unconventional ways to scale your company. Not all startups follow the same trajectory for getting off the ground.

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