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Can We Stop Obsessing Over Failure?

The inventor shares how his business struggles paved the way for runaway success.

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Pioneering Your Idea

The co-founder and CEO of this groundbreaking healthcare company shares lessons from her entrepreneurial journey.

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How to Remain Resilient Through Challenging Times

Social entrepreneur Chip Conley shares his best advice on finding resiliency, adaptability and meaning when you’re facing a major crisis.

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How Disruptive Founders Radically Change the Conversation

Learn how three fearless women entrepreneurs became crusaders for innovation in their industries and society at large.

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How The Lip Bar Founder Melissa Butler Turned Rejection Into Success

Through her game changing business, Butler says she's been on a mission to change the definition of beauty.

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Building the Best Entrepreneurial You

Learn how business owners can take care of their mental health—and how it helps them be better entrepreneurs.

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Building a Business That Will Last

How the Founders of AptDeco Built the Popular Furniture Resale Marketplace

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How to Build Brand Awareness Without Social Media

For many businesses, social media marketing is getting increasingly harder. Consider these effective alternatives for reaching customers.

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Investing in the New Faces of Entrepreneurship

For Years, Investors Have Overlooked Diverse Founders. This VC Has a Plan to Change That for 1,000 of Them.

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Building a Company for the Next Generation

How Allbirds Went From a Soccer Player's Side Hustle to a $2 Billion Sustainable Brand.

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Building a Unicorn Brand

ClassPass Founder Payal Kadakia Offers a Master Class on the Entrepreneur Journey.

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Investing in the Next Generation of Brands

Critics Said Rent the Runway Would Never Work. Here Are the Key Lessons After Its $1.7 Billion IPO.

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Where Do Your Clothes Really Come From?

Learn about how Everlane is bringing ethics and transparency into the clothing industry.

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Solving the Tech Industry’s Diversity Problem

Learn how Kimberly Bryant, founder of the nonprofit Black Girls Code, is empowering Black girls to reach their full potential.

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Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is

Anu Duggal started the first early-stage fund for female-founded companies. Learn how she’s working to promote gender equity within the VC industry.

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Leading with Optimism

Arlan Hamilton founded Backstage Capital to invest in underrepresented founders. Learn how she turned being underestimated into an advantage.

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Values Above All

Tristan Walker built Walker & Company Brands by going all-in on his values.

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To scale, find the right values

Masters of Scale host Reid Hoffman argues that finding the right values to guide how you develop your product might just be more important than finding the right market – and that may require a pivot or two. If you choose your values wisely, they can be the launch ramps that help you soar.

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Kill your bad ideas, but don't kill good instincts

Pivoting requires fast iteration, committing to what works – and moving on from what doesn't. Zynga CEO Mark Pincus learned this lesson early in his career, when he started an ill-fated social network called Tribe. He shares the story, and his powerful takeaway, here.

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Is it time to pivot? Here's how you'll know

Pivoting is an essential part of so many entrepreneurial journeys. But how do you know if you're pivoting to the right thing? Eric Ries actually coined the term "pivot" in the business context. Hear his guidelines for figuring out if the pivot you have in mind will take you closer to your vision.

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Managing your stress in a crisis

As a first-time CEO in a new industry that’s experiencing the worst that the pandemic has to offer, Shelli Taylor, CEO of the cinema chain Alamo Drafthouse, has had to learn how to manage her stress. She provides two pieces of advice: Remind yourself that this crisis will pass, and exercise.

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Don't panic, communicate

Triage, triage, triage. In crisis, you'll need to know how to act, and your first priority may not be what you think. Selina Tobaccowala, co-founder of Evite, on how she discovered the most important thing is not fighting the crisis – but communicating first.

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