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With Startup Stories, we want to offer a place on Medium where founders can share their experience with each other. It is a way for us to ignite the passing of knowledge and to encourage insightful conversations. Startup Stories is for founders, by founders.

Editors
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Leon Pals
Chairman Startup Foundation | Initiated Startup Academy, Startup Chat and Startup Curated amongst others.
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Simone
PhD in Media & Communication | Content Creator | Fan, boy band and popular music expert | qualitative researcher
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Writers
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Attila Szigeti
Helping startup studios grow. Author of Startup Studio Playbook. https://www.attilaszigeti.com/
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David Paliwoda
Product Designer in London. Currently @ Snapchat, formerly W12 Studios & Possible
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Greig Cranfield
User Researcher currently at freetrade.io. Forever learning. Into well designed digital products and strong coffee.
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Julie
i love: learning, traveling, reading, my dog, anything athletic or outdoors, braves/patriots/hawks/yellow jackets, writing, live music, elon musk, dreams
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Fred Rivett
Developer πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’» β€’ Hobbyist designer 🎨 β€’ Maker πŸ›  β€’ Runner πŸƒβ€β™‚οΈ β€’ Explorer 🌍
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Γ–mer AkyΓΌrek
Background in economics and marketing. Designer at day, Developer at night. β€” oemerax.com
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Aaron Trubic
3 agencies, 2 exits. Global brands, world-class agencies, venture capital, private equity, and global research.
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Sebastian Pereyro
Entrepreneur, System and Software Engineer. Love helping founders build amazing products. Passionate about my family and friends.
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Brandon Gains
VP Marketing at Referral SaaSquatch. Using a mix of design, code and storytelling to engage our audience.
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Kenny Fraser
Long business experience. Now learning to be an entrepreneur and helping other entrepreneurs build better businesses.
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Hans van Gent
pure optimist,strategic digital professional, previously director @ StartupBus, now founder @ Inbound Rocket & Head of Digital @ The Oval Office
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Jake Cohn
I’m the Founder of And Chill: A friendly bot that gives you amazing movie recommendations. Say hi at https://www.messenger.com/t/textandchill/ | www.andchill.io
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Bram Kanstein
Early stage startup expert & product builder. I teach people how to build and validate their startup ideas with @nocodemvp β€˜s πŸ’‘ Made + sold @startupstash πŸš€
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Paolo Perazzo
Cross-pollination ignites disruptive innovation. Part of Andiamo founding team, acquired by Cisco. Started SiVola. Building something new at Companyons. For you
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Rahul Varshneya
Co-founder of Arkenea - a custom software development firm for fast-growing companies.
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Christoph Gerber
Founder of Talon.One and Lieferando.de
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Heidi Pun
CEO with a foul mouth. Personal hub: www.HeidiPun.com
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Andrew Michael
#Entrepreneur | #Startup Activist |
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Jake Peters
Co-CEO @HelpDocs (we’re hiring!). I live in hotels full-time and eat 6–12 meals/week. Queer, nonbinary, they/them. πŸ’» 🍳 🏑 πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ ✈️
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Nick Jaworski
Owner of Circle Social Inc. Values-driven Social Media Strategist working to change the world by helping people connect. Crusader against robots. Devoted father
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Henrique Miranda
Helping companies to delivery more value and reduce costs. Working as Consultant Software Architect at FourScouts
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Christopher Platts
Founder of ThriveMap (thrivemap.io), personalised pre-hire assessments for volume hiring.
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Emmanuel Harris
Test Analyst
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Aaron Birkby
Dad of two amazing souls. Lover of adventure. Passionate about helping ambitious change-makers to make an impact.
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Pasindu Withanage
Entrepreneur, Mobile Strategist and an aspiring archer! Co-founder and CEO of @ThikenDot.
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Mridu Singh
Making sense of being here πŸŒπŸ¦‹πŸŒˆ
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David Murray-Hundley The Grumpy Entrepreneur
Linkedin European Business Leader of the Year.Part of Commerce One $22bn IPO.Chairman of MyCarDirect, AAM Group and The Bunch. Founder Pario Ventures
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Pawan Kumar
Writer. Inbound Marketer. An Ambivert. Featured on Entrepreneur, Jeff Bullas, Addicted 2 Success, & HuffPost. My LInkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prepawan/
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John Bailey
Director at Boston Startup CFO. Part time CFO's & back office Finance. Startups are our passion β€” www.bostonstartupcfo.com
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Jayson Dombele
Founder of The Scaling Sauce LLC | Instagram Growth Strategist | Social media & Brand Strategist
Go to the profile of Moumita Dasgupta β€” Blogger & A Marketer By Choice
Moumita Dasgupta β€” Blogger & A Marketer By Choice
Conversion, Branding, Google, Blogging, Data, Design, Development
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Catherine Richardson
I help tech companies automate and maintain their marketing channels and sales pipelines.😎
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Frank Heijdenrijk β™›
Sometimes I believe I have amazing things to write about. Most of the times I am absolutely wrong.
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Matt Hinds
Creating a world where every individual has the knowledge and ability to drive the technology that will impact their future. MD and Co-founder @AgCrowd. #AgTech
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