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How to Build a Beloved Product Without Email Marketing

ConversionXL

My co-founder and I consider his sister to be a trusted confidant. So when she told us that she’s uncomfortable providing her email address to companies—including ours!—and and didn’t want more email clogging up her inbox, it made us stop in our tracks. Why we decided to stop collecting email.

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Remind Me Why I Love You? (Why “In Person” is Everything)

Both Sides of the Table

I left the meeting and had to attend a 3-hour board meeting where two founders have been fighting and each want the other one fired. I raced home to put my kids to bed, say hello to my wife and then spend a grueling administrative hour doing email. I know you emailed me and I emailed you back. But it’s only Tuesday.

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A Seriously Great Story and Why We Funded Them

Both Sides of the Table

I first met Andrew Stalbow , the founder & CEO of Seriously in August of 2013. On August 23rd, 2013 I had an email intro from my good friend and trusted source Jeff Berman who only sends me stuff when it is somebody he respects (ie a strong filter vs. those who send casual intros). He hit me from two very trusted sources.

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Productivity Tips For Small Business Owners

YoungUpstarts

by Ana Grasic , cofounder of WeGrowth. Manage Your Emails Like A Pro. As a small business owner, you will, without a doubt, have to deal with a lot of mail — this includes both sending and receiving emails. Luckily, there are a few simple tricks to help you avoid email overload: Don’t spend too much time on emails.

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Why You Should Be Doing Product Discovery

YoungUpstarts

by Nick Frandsen, co-founder and managing partner at Dovetail. Like most entrepreneurs, you’ve probably mapped out the business plan, dreamed up the layout and you’re already snapping up domains and emailing developers with your plan. Nick Frandsen is a co-founder and managing partner at Dovetail. It’s genius!

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Designing Products from Scratch: An Interview with UX Leader Josh Porter

View from Seed

Josh Porter is the founder of What to Wear Daily , a service that helps you prepare for your day. He is best-known as the creator of 52 Weeks of UX and was also head of UX at HubSpot, by way of being co-founder of Performable (acquired in 2011). I woke up each morning at 5 a.m. But they are also completely biased.

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A Technical Cofounder Tells You How To Find Your Technical Cofounder, Where The Stuff We Return to Amazon Goes, a Benchmark VC on Rethinking Your AI Startup, and More….

Hunter Walker

Here’s a brief smart take on thinking about what you’re actually selling as an AI startup (really as any B2B SaaS startup I’d say): “To do this, rather than sell software to improve an end-user’s productivity, founders should consider what it would look like to sell the work itself.”