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Starting Greatness

Host Mike Maples Jr from venture capital firm FLOODGATE offers lessons from the startup super performers—BEFORE they were successful—featuring interviews with some of Silicon Valley’s most legendary e... Read more

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Steve Blank: Great Entrepreneurship is Artistry

Steve Blank: Great Entrepreneurship is Artistry

Steve Blank’s Customer Development methodology is one of the critical teachings of entrepreneurship over the last twenty... Read more

9 Dec 2019

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Lessons of Greatness: How You Can Tame the Startup Rollercoaster

Lessons of Greatness: How You Can Tame the Startup Rollercoaster

The Startup Rollercoaster is not fun, but it's a reality of startup life. The great founders learn to manage it rather t... Read more

30 Dec 2019

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Lessons of Greatness: Hack Value Before Hacking Growth

Lessons of Greatness: Hack Value Before Hacking Growth

Why proving a startup’s value hypothesis before testing its growth hypothesis is critical.

2 Dec 2019

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How Instagram Delighted 1 Billion Users....but Almost Didn't

How Instagram Delighted 1 Billion Users....but Almost Didn't

Find out how Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger trusted their instincts and overcame rookie mistakes on the way to building ... Read more

13 Jan 2020

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Lessons of Greatness: How to Get Customers to Hire Your Product

Lessons of Greatness: How to Get Customers to Hire Your Product

What job should a desperate customer hire YOUR product to do? Answering this question is key to unlocking a key lesson o... Read more

13 Jan 2020

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Lessons of Greatness: Find your inner MacGyver

Lessons of Greatness: Find your inner MacGyver

If you want find greatness, you have to improvise to beat impossible over and over again. There is no course or framewor... Read more

23 Dec 2019

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Keith Rabois: Key lessons from Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman, and Jack Dorsey

Keith Rabois: Key lessons from Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman, and Jack Dorsey

Few people in the history of startups have seen more examples of excellence than Keith Rabois. Not surprisingly, Keith i... Read more

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Osman Rashid: “How did Chegg find a way through?”

Osman Rashid: “How did Chegg find a way through?”

Osman Rashid, co-founder and original CEO of Chegg, talks about how Chegg’s startup team of misfit rebels navigated thro... Read more

23 Dec 2019

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Kim Polese: Building the Early Web with Java and Marimba

Kim Polese: Building the Early Web with Java and Marimba

Kim Polese, the founding product manager for Java at Sun, as well as co-founding CEO of Marimba, talks about how Java al... Read more

30 Dec 2019

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Marc Andreessen: “Was Netscape an Overnight Success?”

Marc Andreessen: “Was Netscape an Overnight Success?”

Mike Maples, Jr talks to Marc Andreessen, Co-founder of Netscape—the startup that launched the Internet era. What it was... Read more

16 Dec 2019

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Lessons of Greatness: Why Finding Undiscovered Talent is the Winning Mindset

Lessons of Greatness: Why Finding Undiscovered Talent is the Winning Mindset

Great Startup Recruiting is surprisingly similar to great Startup Ideas: Just like you have to find undiscovered opportu... Read more

3 Feb 2020

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Lessons of Greatness: You Need a Breakthrough Insight

Lessons of Greatness: You Need a Breakthrough Insight

Learn why great startups have unique insights that defy conventional wisdom.

2 Dec 2019

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Lessons of Greatness: Real Artists Get Out of the Building

Lessons of Greatness: Real Artists Get Out of the Building

“Getting out of the building” means something deeper than many realize. Mike Maples Jr explores why in this key lesson o... Read more

9 Dec 2019

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Sarah Leary of Nextdoor: “The Moment You Know You've Created Something Valuable"

Sarah Leary of Nextdoor: “The Moment You Know You've Created Something Valuable"

Nextdoor today is worth more than $2 Billion and is used by 250,000 neighborhoods throughout the world. Silicon Valley t... Read more

2 Dec 2019

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Lessons of Greatness: Why Great Ideas Won't Wait

Lessons of Greatness: Why Great Ideas Won't Wait

It's tempting to start a company when it meets the conditions of your "master plan." But sometimes you realize that an i... Read more

21 Jan 2020

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