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Networking isn't about playing golf and exchanging business cards. Networking means simply making friends. Why? Because people do business with people they like and trust.

You worked hard to write the perfect cold email to your top prospect but they didn't respond back. While it’s possible that the person you emailed isn’t interested in your product, the most likely scenario is that working professionals are simply busy. Here's how to follow-up the right way, without being salesy or annoying.

Many tech companies are 2-10x overstaffed. Shiyan Koh, GP and co-founder of Hustle Fund, shares best practices for hiring after you raise and for measuring employees' performances.

Our system for tracking the people in our lives and how we keep in touch with friends, family, colleagues and more.

Kevin Lee and Kevin Chan had quit their jobs to start immi, a healthy instant ramen startup. But the pandemic hit and for over a year, they couldn't ship a single product because of supply-chain issues. This didn't stop them from building an audience from scratch. Learn what they did to build an email list of 35,000 people and an engaged community of thousands of ramen lovers without shipping a single product.

When you work for a startup, things change fast and you can't always anticipate what's coming next. Startups have to make changes to stay afloat if they don't know what their runway is. Don't make that mistake - here's how to calculate your runway.

One of the most popular business advice is to worry less about marketing and simply build a product that will naturally go viral. But after building our own successful business and investing in hundreds more, we realized this is actually bad advice. It's more effective to focus on distribution and marketing just as much as your product. We share what it means to validate your market and why you need to obsess over distribution.




