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How ProGuides Is Helping Gamers Master Their Game, With Sam Wang

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Once you've exhausted looking online for tips, Los Angeles-based ProGuides (www.proguides.com) offers up professional, instructional content to help you improve your skills at such popular titles as League of Legends, Hearthstone, and Fortnite. After finishing a course, we've found they likely also want to find a coach.

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How Has Product Hunt Become Such a Critical Startup Website?

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I strong showing on TechCrunch created initial product demand and if you could sustain that it led to buzz overall in the tech community. Tips on how Product Hunt built a strong community and maintains positivity [3 minutes, 30 seconds]. Ryan talked about his transition from product manager to CEO and offers advice [1 minute].

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Six Tips for Turning Business Ideas Into Action

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In fact, the actions required to start and run a business are well documented, the subject of many books, and taught in college courses across the land. Build a performance-oriented culture that demands quality in every operation, encourages continuous innovation, and refuses to tolerate mediocrity. You set the model for your startup.

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Who Should be on Your Startup Board?

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Of course it happens all the time?—?especially I am going to do a whole separate post on independent board members so I won’t belabor it here but here is one important tip?—?there For starters, the incoming CEO will demand between 4–6% of the company so shareholders will immediately face dilution. Not really. Legally speaking.

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The Station: Via hits $2.25B valuation, letters from readers, layoffs in a time of COVID-19

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There were, of course, those who used the opportunity to make a marketing push or pitch a story. Please reach out and email me at kirsten.korosec@techcrunch.com to share thoughts, opinions or tips or send a direct message to @kirstenkorosec. The on-demand shuttle startup raised $400 million, TechCrunch learned. Deal of the week.

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Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers

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Of course, if you are a good developer looking for equity-only positions in very interesting startups, please drop me a note. It is important to realize that most people who are willing to work for sweat equity are not a) the best, b) in demand, and c) going to put their heart and soul into your project.

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9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month

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It’s not clear that there was big customer demand for some of these products yet entrepreneurs were egged on by VCs to “take the money&# and try and push the market. This is the so-called “tipping point.&# It is at this point that your startup needs to consider “ going fat.&# It seemed to be purely speculative.