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    Customer Discovery #2: What a Positive Response Looks Like

    Jen Baird / June 27, 2020

    When asking for feedback on a product concept, it is easy to be fooled. Make sure you know the kind of reaction you need to hear to know you have a potential winner.

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    May 15, 2021

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    January 11, 2025
    N>1

    Customer Discovery #1: n>1

    June 24, 2020
  • N>1
    Product Development

    Customer Discovery #1: n>1

    Jen Baird / June 24, 2020

    Talk to many potential customers when seeking to validate an unmet need.

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    March 11, 2023

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    January 11, 2025

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    CEO Essentials

    Prioritize Exercise While Building Your Startup

    Jen Baird / June 20, 2020

    Startups are marathons, not sprints. Figuring out how to pace yourself and your team in a healthy way has real business success consequences.

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    January 11, 2025

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    July 29, 2023

    Critical Success Factor: Decision-Making

    August 24, 2024
  • Measure
    Management

    What You Measure Will Improve

    Jen Baird / June 17, 2020

    A concrete measure provides the focus and sense of accomplishment needed to improve continuously.

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    Pick Your Spending Rate Wisely

    August 7, 2021
    Permission to Innovate

    Permission to Innovate

    July 4, 2020

    Management. Management. Management.

    April 26, 2025
  • Life Happens
    Founding

    The Importance of Co-Founder Vesting

    Jen Baird / June 12, 2020

    Because life happens, co-founder vesting of equity is critical for a young high-potential startup.

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    June 3, 2023

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    July 1, 2020
  • Co-founders
    Founding

    The Value of Co-Founders

    Jen Baird / June 9, 2020

    Most venture-backed companies are founded by two or more co-founders. With good reason.

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    Drive, Intelligence, and Integrity

    June 24, 2023

    The Double-Edged Sword of Competition when Fundraising

    July 15, 2023

    Are You Ready to Commit to Founding?

    January 25, 2025
  • What Blogging is Teaching Me
    Blogging

    What Blogging About My Startup Experiences is Teaching Me

    Jen Baird / June 6, 2020

    Four weeks into my blogging journey, I find blogging is affecting me in ways I never anticipated. As I continue, I wanted to share what I am learning.

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    The Discipline of Blogging

    December 11, 2021
    Finding the path

    Why I Started This Blog

    May 8, 2020

    Half a Decade of Blogging

    May 24, 2025
  • Delaware C-Corp
    Founding

    Start with a Delaware C-Corp If Raising VC

    Jen Baird / June 3, 2020

    When building a startup, you will face many surprising curves, so when the best path is the straight, well-traveled road, take it.

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