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David Byttow in Always Be Coding

May 21, 2013

ABC: Always Be Coding

How to Land an Engineering Job.

11 Things I Wish I Knew When I Started My Business

Glitter was literally shooting out of my eye sockets as I quit my PR job to “be my own boss.” Then reality struck.

A Product Manager’s Job

Product management is one of the hardest jobs to define in any organization, partially because it’s different in…

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David Byttow in Always Be Coding

May 25, 2013

Four Steps to Google, Without a Degree

Since publishing ABC: Always Be Coding - How to Land an Engineering Job, many have asked how…

The Risk Not Taken

For the first three years of Bonobos, I lived with $3,000 in the bank, a $3,000 apartment, and $150,000 of debt. During that…

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Rohini Vibha in Product Coalition

Jan 23, 2014

So You Want To Manage A Product?

What no one tells you about the role

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Dustin Moskovitz in I. M. H. O.

Aug 14, 2013

Good and Bad Reasons to Become an Entrepreneur

Update (Sept 2014): I gave a talk on this topic during lecture 1 of Stanford’s CS 183B course. Check out the video if you’d like to hear more about deciding to become an entrepreneur. I’ve also added a few of the slides to this post in relevant…

E-Commerce is a Bear

In two decades of e-commerce in the US, we have produced only two standalone e-commerce companies of meaningful enterprise…

Postmortem of a Venture-backed Startup

Lessons Learned from the rise and fall of @Sonar

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Julie Zhuo in The Year of the Looking Glass

Aug 15, 2013

How to Work with Designers

A Cheat Sheet for Engineers and PMs

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