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Uncharted Podcast #100, Lessons Learned From a Lifetime in Entrepreneurship With SaaStr’s Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

They developed the Open Source predecessor to their company. The post Uncharted Podcast #100, Lessons Learned From a Lifetime in Entrepreneurship With SaaStr’s Jason Lemkin appeared first on SaaStr. There are founders who strategically figure out what they’re going to build from Day 1. That’s very strategic.

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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. Founders’ Personal Development & Relationships With Investors. Personal development for founders should be important to investors just as much as company success. Company Culture of Personal Development.

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Startup Century: A New Book on Technology Policy by Balderton’s James Wise

Kellblog

Everyday-Everyone Entrepreneurship The world envisioned is one of everyday-everyone entrepreneurship , which James defines as a state where people: Have meaningful ownership of what they produce. ” For example, income security seems out the window in the eat-what-you-kill world of individual entrepreneurship. But

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Who Will Win the GTM AI Race — Startups vs. Incumbents? With Stage 2 Capital Co-founder and Managing Director Mark Roberge

SaaStr

Data acquisition will become an important function within the business development domain. Big companies with billion-dollar marketing budgets, 10k employees, and 20 years of engineering development drive aircraft carriers. Entrepreneurship is hard, but you have a competitive advantage if you… Reimagine your company in a post-AI world.

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How to Scale a Platform and Ecosystem to $10B with Atlassian CRO Cameron Deatsch (Pod 611 + Video)

SaaStr

The platform hosts an app development infrastructure where partners and customers can build their own apps and deploy them within Atlassian’s infrastructure. In 2012, the website was transformed into the Atlassian marketplace, giving plugin developers the opportunity to make money off of their plugins. Making a robust ecosystem.

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How Predictable Revenue built its innovative Outbound Validation program with CPO Kenny MacKenzie

Predictable Revenue

But they failed on the sales and marketing side – they developed a really cool, cutting edge piece of software that wasn’t aligned with what the market needed. And that’s the story of entrepreneurship. even the best ideas can fail for a host of different reasons.

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Sushi, passion, and entrepreneurship

Tom Tunguz

Others discover a calling through their journeys and develop passionate for a cause. Passion is a magical thing - it is inspiration, a contagious motive force for progress and excitement. Some people have it innately. Still others require dedication, discipline and perseverance to elicit it, like Jiro. Founders are an adventurous breed.