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Starting Greatness
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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 entrepreneurs and thought leaders, including Netscape co-founder Marc…
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- 01Why Should You Never Skip the Early AdoptersLessons of Greatness: Why You Need to Nail a Niche before Going Big
- 02What Can a Founder Do to Nail a Product for the Early AdoptersLessons of Greatness: Why You Need to Nail a Niche before Going Big
- 03Every Successful Startup Started as a Small Company, WhyLessons of Greatness: Why You Need to Nail a Niche before Going Big
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- Lessons of Greatness: Leslie’s Compass
- Mark Leslie: Silicon Valley Go-to-Market Legend (Part 2)
- Lessons of Greatness: the Sales Learning Curve
- Mark Leslie: Silicon Valley Go-to-Market Legend (Part 1)
- Lessons of Greatness: the Infinite Game
- Tobi Lutke: a Startup Founder Arming the Rebels Against Amazon
- Lessons of Greatness: the Startup Founder Is an Artist - and a Salesman
- Tim Westergren: How the Band Kept Playing at Pandora
- Lessons of Greatness: Finding Success With “BIG D DESIGN”
- Qasar Younis and Peter Ludwig of Applied Intuition: a Startup With Design in Mind
- Lessons of Greatness: How to Defeat "We're F*cked, It's Over" (WFIO) Moments
- Ben Horowitz: “The IPO From Hell” and Other REAL Lessons from the Startup Crucible
- Lessons of Greatness: The future is DESIGNED, not predicted
- Stephane Bancel of Moderna: $5B and 10 years on the path to changing humanity
- Lessons of Greatness: Apply Game Design to Business Software
- Rahul Vohra of Superhuman: How to create business products people *enjoy* using
- Lessons of Greatness: The Myth of TAM
- Julia Hartz: From Zero to One to IPO and Beyond
- Lessons of Greatness: Price Before You Build
- Pricing Guru Madhavan Ramanujam: How Smart Startups Design Their Products Around the Price
- Lessons of Greatness: Find your wave before your market
- Jerry Yang: How Yahoo went from a hobby to the early King of the Internet
- Lessons of Greatness: Hire like your life depends on it
- Matthew Prince and Michelle Zatlyn of Cloudflare: How to build a better Company as well as a better Internet
- Lessons of Greatness: Why you must master risk-taking to seize greatness
- Vinod Khosla: Your willingness to fail is what will let you succeed
- Lessons of Greatness: Design your category
- Christopher Lochhead: Why Legendary Startups create Categories
- Lessons of Greatness: DESIGN for network effects
- Anu Hariharan: How to think about network effects for your startup, from the beginning
- Lessons of Greatness: Start a Movement; not just a business
- David Sacks: Legendary Startup Product Expert
- Lessons of Greatness: Be a Learn-it-All; not a Know-it-All
- Matt Mullenweg: How a modest empire builder powered a huge chunk of the web
- Lessons of Greatness: ALWAYS know your competitive edge
- Mark Cuban: You only have to be right once...if you take big enough swings along the way
- Lessons of Greatness: Thinking in Bets
- Annie Duke: Decision-making Secrets from a World Series of Poker Champion
- Lessons of Greatness: Get REAL
- How Tim Ferriss found product-market fit for “The Four Hour Workweek”
- Welcome to Season 2!
- Lessons of Greatness: You are Yoda, not Luke
- Nancy Duarte: Why storytelling is vital to entrepreneurship
- Lessons of Greatness: Why the world needs breakthrough builders; How it can be you
- Mike Maples and Shane Parrish: How to create a Breakthrough
- Lessons of Greatness: Don't Just Be Resilient: How to be Anti-Fragile
- Manny Medina: From Hell and Back to the Threshold of Greatness
- Lessons of Greatness: You have to take the Initiative
- Steve Blank: How to turn the tables on COVID-19
- Lessons of Greatness: Don't Mess with Metcalfe's Law
- Bob Metcalfe: Co-inventor of Ethernet. Tech industry legend and Polymath.
- Lessons of Greatness: Distribution, Distribution, Distribution
- Reid Hoffman: the Network Philosopher King
- Why Geoffrey Moore's Crossing the Chasm is a must-read for Ambitious Startup Founders
- Lessons of Greatness: Why Finding Undiscovered Talent is the Winning Mindset
- Keith Rabois: Key lessons from Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman, and Jack Dorsey
- Lessons of Greatness: Why Great Ideas Won't Wait
- How Todd McKinnon of Okta believed (even when he sometimes didn't) in the inevitability of breakout success.
- Lessons of Greatness: How to Get Customers to Hire Your Product
- How Instagram Delighted 1 Billion Users....but Almost Didn't
- Lessons of Greatness: How You Can Tame the Startup Rollercoaster
- Kim Polese: Building the Early Web with Java and Marimba
- Lessons of Greatness: Find your inner MacGyver
- Osman Rashid: “How did Chegg find a way through?”
- Lessons of Greatness: Living in the Future
- Marc Andreessen: “Was Netscape an Overnight Success?”
- Lessons of Greatness: Real Artists Get Out of the Building
- Steve Blank: Great Entrepreneurship is Artistry
- Lessons of Greatness: Hack Value Before Hacking Growth
- Sarah Leary of Nextdoor: “the Moment You Know You've Created Something Valuable"
- Lessons of Greatness: You Need a Breakthrough Insight
- Andy Rachleff on “How to Know If You’ve Got Product Market Fit”
- Why Greatness is a Decision
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