#Startups

Almost all our success at Klout can be tied to a couple strategic decisions that almost no one knows about. A quick thread on how we leveraged our funding to
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1/ Beware the tail wagging the dog. Numbers you committed to your board are not your strategy.Numbers you think next round investors want to see are not your strategy. 2/
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Exclusivity is problematic with one exception.In many cases, exclusivity is used to make an us vs. them space. By gatekeeping, you force the outer group to feel a wide range
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The way Indian society connects grades with intelligence is super toxic in long term. I've heard many people say, "I was really intelligent back in school, idk what happened to
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Here are some things I’m doing to slowly grow into a sustainable, resilient business. Most of these are just common sense, customer-friendly policies that in turn forces me to build
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Too many startups are built on the backs of anxious overachievers who oscillate somewhere between:– achieving → "am I good enough?"– anxiety → "why am I not achieving?"It doesn't have to
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PR 101: earned media for early stage companies When to start How to start How to measureAnd more Thread // PR can be seen as a vanity channel but,
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A few days ago I asked Twitter to tell me what they DIDNT like about my game, Going Under. I thought it would be helpful to SPECIFICALLY ask bc indies
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It used to be you basically had two options to make money as a founder:* hope for an IPO many years down the road. * Or maybe get acquired by
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Bundling and Unbundling?Need business ideas?“Gentlemen, there are only two ways I know of to make money: bundling and unbundling.” - Jim Barksdale Unbundling new Markets, who is doing what...Thread
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Almodóvar, Mungiu, Lelouch, Luc Dardenne, Costa-Gavras, and other elder statesmen of cinema have sounded a call for Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Netflix to start paying their fair share of
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Are we honest about what we need from #hiring and #onboarding? Sadly, I would say we are not always open and "fully transparent" in the #recruiting context. A discussion ---
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I think we all need to take a hard, serious look at the idea of employee ownership in companies. I come from the world of startups, where it's not entirely
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/1 Contrary to everyone's opinion towards this year.2020 was the best year of my life, And here is my end-of-the-year journal in a thread. /2[April-June 2020]After being stuck in
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A friend of a friend hired me to help them as they build out their social presence for their new company. Here's a breakdown of what I'm doing for them,
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My #paisavaisa podcast hit 250 episodes today (+89 Hindi Q&A episodes long ago). Sharing some of my thoughts in a Q&A format here, hope it's useful. Q: Why did I
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