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High Growth Handbook

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How Do You Know When You Have It

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What Should a Ceo Be Spending Most of Their Time Doing

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Tomtom

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How Not To Approach Your Investor Meetings

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.How Should Teams Choose Their Ceo Who Should Be the Ceo

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Why Were You the Ceo

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Fundraising

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How Easy Was It To Raise Money at Mixture Labs Your First Company

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And There's Different Ways To Check that It Could Be Something That I Would Have Used Myself at My Company It Could Be You See Clear Growth Retraction from Something That's Launched or Sometimes I'Ll Literally Call Potential Customers and Ask Them So I Actually Do a Lot of Market That Will Judge for Things I Invest and Even though I'M Just an Angel the Second Thing Is You Know Are They Are They People Who Are Very High Caliber They Can Learn Quickly You Know All the Rest of It so There Is the Founder Component Which I Think Is Really Important I Just Think the Market Dominates that and Then Lastly

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How Can You Tell What's Wrong with the Product Is that Your Strategy or Is It the Content or Is It some Feature of the Product That's Missing It Depends a Little Bit on What Type of Consumer Product Is So if You Have an E-Commerce Site It Really Is about Lt Being Cat Can You Acquire Customers at a Cost Less than What You Sell the Product to to Them and What's the Lifetime Value of that Customer and There There's a Very Small Handful of Distribution Strategies That Tend To Work via Seo or Sem or Other Types of either Ad Formats or Customer Acquisition

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I Think Is Back to the the Discussion We Had Earlier Which Is What Is a Sign that Your Products Actually Working and It Depends on What You Mean by a Wall in Terms of You Know So for Example if You'Re Growing 20 % a Month off of a Small Base I Think that's a Sign that It's Working Even though People May Say Oh You Have a Small User Base You'Re Hitting a Wall because You Know You'Re Never GonNa Get that Big and Then You See these Companies Become Giant Companies because the Use Case Is Much Broader Airbnb Is a Good Example Where I Think that Market Size Was Bigger than Anybody Expected

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A Conversation with Elad Gil
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2018Oct 18
Serial entrepreneur and angel investor Elad Gil sits down with YC Partner Geoff Ralston to discuss startups. Learn more at https://startupschool.org.

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