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Aaron Dinin, PhD

May 5

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Learn This One Lesson to Help Turn Your Scrappy Startup Into a Growing Business

Entrepreneurs struggle turning their startups into businesses because they don’t always know how to hire the right people

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In the earliest stage of building my first successful startup, I spent a couple years doing all the selling of our product (a…

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Aaron Dinin, PhD

Aaron Dinin, PhD

I teach entrepreneurship at Duke. Software Engineer. PhD in English. I write about the mistakes entrepreneurs make since I’ve made plenty. More @ aarondinin.com

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