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Chili Piper’s Co-Founder Alina Vandenberghe on bootstrapping your way to success

Intercom, Inc.

Alina Vandenberghe is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Chili Piper , an inbound conversion software that helps sales teams automatically schedule appointments and instantly turn leads into qualified meetings. She had a deep understanding of their processes and pain points and knew how to build software that would help them thrive.

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Cognota’s Ryan Austin on Creating an Entire Category (LearnOps)

FastSpring

Ryan Austin had VP-level experience in training when he decided to start a consulting business to help enterprise-level companies with their corporate learning and development initiatives. Ryan and his team noticed so many inefficiencies across the L&D workflows. “It Before seeing good success in the company.

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Product Manager Career Path: A Guide for Growing in Product Management

User Pilot

TL;DR A product manager leads the product management team and is responsible for overseeing all stages of the product development process. They earn more than developers, astronauts, and even attorneys, but less than surgeons. The Director of Product is accountable for multiple product lines and manages product management teams.

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“I Was Seduced By a Build Scenario”: 11 Ways to Avoid This Exec’s Greatest Tech Failure

BetterCloud

One exec’s greatest failure: “I was seduced by a build scenario … it turned out to be a very poor decision”. At MIT’s 2014 CIO Symposium, ThomasNet President Mark Holst-Knudsen said his greatest business/technology failure was building software when they could have bought it. What does all this research indicate?

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What Builders Talk About When They Talk About AI

Andreessen Horowitz

The foundation models we use today aren’t just beating humans at Jeopardy, or playing Go at a supernatural level, or powering better recommendation engines—they’re changing and creating new user behavior across art, design, games, medicine, coding, and even human relationships. Here are the top 16 things we learned. AI today 1.

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Advertising Week 360: How to Tell the Perfect Startup Brand Story

Trint

In my 30 years of news reporting for ABC, CBS and CBC News I traveled to more than 40 countries, dodged bullets while reporting on wars, I interviewed prime ministers and presidents. I’d never been exposed to software developers and the mysterious world of coding. I remember saying to the team, “We just invented the future.”

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