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starting-up • 58 posts

3 reasons you shouldn't outsource your startup, and what to do instead

May 21, 2015starting-up

The dream forms over time

January 27, 2015starting-up

How we're trying to stay innovative as a 3.5 year old startup

May 3, 2014starting-up

The choices we make when we build startups

April 20, 2014starting-up

The Yin and Yang of a great co-founder relationship

March 16, 2014starting-up

Firing myself, again

January 26, 2014starting-up

6 suggestions for an aspiring founder

July 22, 2013starting-up

Dreams come true

April 18, 2013starting-up

The undervalued advantages of being a small startup

April 15, 2013starting-up

5 things that seem essential that we launched Buffer without

April 1, 2013starting-up

Want to help your hometown? Pack up and leave

March 20, 2013starting-up

The third option

February 21, 2013starting-up

Make progress faster by cooperating: 4 tips to try with your co-founder or co-worker

February 13, 2013starting-up

The paradox of how bugs and downtime can be a good thing

January 14, 2013starting-up

How to gain traction in two sided markets

January 4, 2013starting-up

Focus on the line, not the dot

January 2, 2013starting-up

The highs and lows of startup life

December 28, 2012starting-up

Thinking about your goal with a startup

December 16, 2012starting-up

Feeling like a fraud while doing startups

December 3, 2012starting-up

The maker/manager transition phase

November 19, 2012starting-up

What are your top 3 challenges?

November 5, 2012starting-up

Start something small

November 2, 2012starting-up

Thoughts on dropping out to do a startup

October 28, 2012starting-up

The magic of a great startup ecosystem

October 14, 2012starting-up

Maximize your excitement

October 2, 2012starting-up

Thoughts on when to incorporate

September 29, 2012starting-up

How an investor who turned me down ended up sleeping on my couch

September 22, 2012starting-up

Why you should continue working on your bad idea

September 1, 2012starting-up

Why I'm helping startup founders

July 28, 2012starting-up

Achieving overnight success: Tom Preston-Werner

July 21, 2012starting-upovernight success

Your startup is a rocket ship

July 1, 2012starting-up

Don't register your idea as a company

June 24, 2012starting-up

Making money with a product: A myth?

June 13, 2012starting-up

Use the happiness advantage

June 10, 2012starting-up

For the first few people, hire from your network

May 27, 2012starting-up

What online gaming taught me about startups

May 19, 2012starting-up

Work harder on yourself than you do on your startup

May 12, 2012starting-up

Achieving overnight success: Kevin Systrom

May 5, 2012starting-upovernight success

Raising funding as a first-time founder

February 26, 2012starting-up

Avoid the 50/50 co-founder model - here's why

January 10, 2012starting-up

10 lessons from my startup journey so far

December 19, 2011starting-up

Achieving scale by doing things that don't scale

November 14, 2011starting-up

Like anything else, we need to practice startups

August 28, 2011starting-up

Founders: failure comes with the territory

July 31, 2011starting-up

Does location really matter for your startup?

July 24, 2011starting-up

Why you should start marketing early

June 26, 2011starting-up

Reflecting on ways to bootstrap a startup

June 19, 2011starting-up

What is your coming soon page for?

June 12, 2011starting-up

Beware of the social ideas

May 29, 2011starting-up

How to start your startup in 4 steps

May 15, 2011starting-up

Giving your startup a point of view

April 17, 2011starting-up

Treat it as finished

April 3, 2011starting-up

Acting with incomplete information in a startup

March 27, 2011starting-up

Healthy naivety

March 20, 2011starting-up

Fear of not shipping

March 13, 2011starting-up

Creating order from chaos in a startup

March 6, 2011starting-up

Ways to bootstrap a startup: on the side

January 23, 2011starting-up

Ways to bootstrap a startup: 'working in waves'

December 5, 2010starting-up

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