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Depict.ai Is Building Amazon Quality Recommendations For the Rest of E-Commerce

Depict.ai Is Building Amazon Quality Recommendations For the Rest of E-Commerce

E-commerce is booming and the success of e-commerce platforms like Shopify has resulted in an increase not just in the number of…
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Brett Gibson
Abodu: A Fast, Scalable Way to Start Fixing The West Coast’s Housing Shortage

Abodu: A Fast, Scalable Way to Start Fixing The West Coast’s Housing Shortage

For the past six years, a pet hobby — actually, an obsession — of mine has been America’s housing shortage. Since the 2008 financial…
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Kim-Mai Cutler
I Said the Wrong Thing and Killed My Investor Pitch

I Said the Wrong Thing and Killed My Investor Pitch

Often the easiest choice is to make no choice at all, but you might kill your startup that way
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Garry Tan
What do all successful billion dollar startups have in common?

What do all successful billion dollar startups have in common?

They build long-lived teams that beat all competition
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Garry Tan
Talos Is Building the Bridge Mainstream Financial Institutions Need to Trade Digital Assets

Talos Is Building the Bridge Mainstream Financial Institutions Need to Trade Digital Assets

For some time “the institutions are coming” has been a bit of a mantra in the crypto asset space, but to date adoption by traditional…
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Brett Gibson
How Lever Got To 50–50 Women and Men

How Lever Got To 50–50 Women and Men

For two years, Sarah Nahm was the only woman at Lever, the company she co-founded and now runs as CEO.
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Kim-Mai Cutler
Should you Quit and Join That Risky Tech Startup?

Should you Quit and Join That Risky Tech Startup?

A guide to learning, earning, and minimizing regret
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Garry Tan
The Basics of Branding for Startups

The Basics of Branding for Startups

How brand strategy plays into product adoption
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Kim-Mai Cutler
Taking Care of Your Health While Running A Startup

Taking Care of Your Health While Running A Startup

The first time Zachariah Reitano founded a startup, he went through the Y Combinator program and found himself rushing back and forth…
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Kim-Mai Cutler
How To Build and Run A Geographically Distributed Engineering Team

How To Build and Run A Geographically Distributed Engineering Team

At Initialized Capital, our share of investments outside the Bay Area has ticked up to about one-quarter of our most recent fund as the…
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Kim-Mai Cutler
Instacart’s Lead Product Designer on Creating A Design System

Instacart’s Lead Product Designer on Creating A Design System

Jordan Staniscia tried — and claims he failed — multiple times to create a single, re-usable design system for all of Instacart’s visuals…
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Kim-Mai Cutler
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