Melanie Perkins has one of the best startup stories - Learned to kitesurf so she could build a relationship with Bill Tai - 1 year to hire her tech team - 3 years to raise $3M - Experienced exponential growth How Melanie Perkins grew Canva 👇 justgogrind.com/p/melanie-perk…

Meet Africa’s most active startups investors! Full insight👉thebigdeal.gumroad.com Database 👉thebigdeal.substack.com

A 26-year-old programmer built a $1 billion app in two years after following his girlfriend's advice. This is the story of how a failed passion project turned into one of the most iconic apps of our time:

In the 1990's, a new college grad took a job in Alaska as a fisherman. But this person had no interest in fishing, it was just the highest paying entry level job he found. This person was saving money to start an empire. Here's how Todd Graves founded Raising Cane's:

PRODUCT MARKET FIT, the only thing that matters at the early stage. Founders University Week #4 - PMF gets thrown around so often today that many founders don't actually know what it really means or why it is important. Today we will focus on changing that. 🧵

The photo on the left is Tiger’s tee shot on the 18th hole in 2005, the day he won his 4th Masters. The photo on the right is Tiger’s tee shot during yesterday's practice round, a full 3 days before the tournament even begins. Insane 🤯

25 years ago, In 1998, Reed and I flew to Seattle to talk about selling Netflix to Amazon. The meeting went well, and Jeff Bezos floated a price of $15 million. That wouldn’t have been a bad payday for less than 12 months work, but we thought we were on to something. We had

The secret is to start with another app that has 500M daily active users. If you enjoyed this groundbreaking insight, follow me Peter Yang and RT above.

Overthinking is the biggest cause of unhappiness. It took me 9 years to beat it. Here are 8 ways you can beat overthinking too:

For a worthy cause...let's go Altonians

"I’m not a businessman, I’m a business, man" Jay-Z's rise is remarkable From selling drugs on the streets to becoming hip-hop's first billionaire But how'd he do it? I read 2 books, watched interviews, and read countless articles for this one 👇 justgogrind.com/p/jay-z

Naming is always a challenge. You need to find something that is memorable. That's sellable. That is evocative of what you are trying to do. That is available. And that doesn’t mean something obscene in Lithuanian. We didn’t really like the name Netflix. It sounds like we

Our #Alton branch team kindly volunteered at the Alton Runners 10k this Sunday in the grounds of Chawton House. The race was held in aid of Cardiac Rehab and ChawtonHouse. Thank you & well done team Alton. 😊

Alton colleagues have been volunteering at AltonCommunityCupboard, a non-for profit organisation who work with local supermarkets to collect good quality food and distribute to the local community. The team helped to unpack and display goods ready for the store to open to the public.

The sting of humiliation by an asshole launched a cookie empire. Her insight (and how you can use it): Before Mrs. Fields created a cookie empire, she had zero plans to ever be an entrepreneur. Before getting married, Debbie Fields worked as a ball girl for the Oakland A's.

As he was struggling to break into Hollywood, Matt Damon read about how Quentin Tarantino did it: Essentially, he got a big-name actor (Harvey Keitel) to want to star in Tarantino’s first movie (Reservoir Dogs) then leveraged that to get the movie funded. “And so,” Damon said,

Being an entrepreneur for the first time is painful. You feel lost 98% of the time - the ups and downs are gut-wrenching. I wish I had a cheat sheet for when I started my first company. So I wrote one. In honor of 2023, here are the 23 Lessons I wish I knew sooner 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

Great to have someone who actually works and plays in Silicon Valley to share their experiences and how best we can create Zimbabwean entrepreneur networks. Tawanda works at Google and in the past worked for McKinsey, all in Silicon Valley. Be sure to join us tomorrow.

We invite women entrepreneurs who want to take their businesses to the next level to apply for the 2024 Academy for Women Entrepreneurs. Applications opened today, July 1 and close July 27. Please apply here forms.gle/uzbX5Di28rDa9r…

Lesson 3: Execution