Blind Faith Is 50% of Building a Company
Trip Adler shares the founder wisdom that kept him going through Scribd's hardest years — and why leaving after 16 years actually proved it works.
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Stop Treating Your Content Like Your Product — It's Your Funnel
Adam Biddlecombe explains why monetizing content directly kills growth, and how great creators use content as a distribution engine for something else.
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The Spreadsheet Error That Almost Ended a Startup (And What It Teaches About Data)
Adam Biddlecombe's moment of dark clarity when Mindstream's master spreadsheet showed the business was 'destined to die'—and why the formulas being wrong changed everything.
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How VCs Actually Evaluate AI Startups (It's Not What You Think)
Mercedes Bent shares her 7-point founder framework and the 4 categories that separate portfolio companies from ideas. Your TAM slide doesn't matter as much as you think.
Why Scaling a Company Gets Harder, Not Easier
John Kim (CEO, Paraform) debunks the founder myth that early-stage is the hardest part. He explains why the real difficulty hits after you've already proven product-market fit.
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Why Checking Your Dashboard 7 Times a Day Is Procrastination in Disguise
Adam Biddlecombe on dashboard addiction, the problem with constant metrics checking, and Shawn Puri's 'one important thing' framework that helped him break the habit.
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