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#1 Takeaways by Zeni Bandy about this article 👇
John Gorman writes that what prevents most of us from achieving our dreams isn’t laziness: It’s fear. “Fear doesn’t manifest itself like you think, because oftentimes we don’t give it the chance to,” he writes. “Fear isn’t always the sweaty palms that stop us cold in a job interview — fear is generally what prevents us from applying in the first place. It’s so subtly limiting that we often build around it without even noticing it’s there.”
Overcoming fear has a lot to do with our innate belief in our own abilities. In Elite Minds: How Winners Think Differently to Create a Competitive Edge and Maximize Success, tells Forbes that there’s a misconception about athletes who consistently outperform the competition, in that they must want to win the most. “It’s that people that win and succeed at a high level, they don’t actually think about winning. They simply believe they’re going to do well.”
it’s important to have long-term goals. But sometimes, we get so caught up imagining them, we fail to put in the work we need to do today to achieve them. The problem with focusing on getting better is that it’s about the future. You can’t get better now. If you’re working on achieving a long-term goal, it helps if you enjoy the day-to-day grind that’s going to get you there.
Zeni Bandy is a data-driven Customer Experience leader with experience building customer service and customer success operations from the ground up at venture-backed startups in San Francisco.
#2 Takeaways by Aurore Lanchart about this article 👇
Raising a first-time fund is like climbing two north faces simultaneously: the first ascent is raising money from the LPs, the second rise is partnering with the best entrepreneurs.
Client obsession also works for investors and is often overlooked
Building an investment firm is first and foremost reuniting early believers into a vision and a team, LPs are then our first-onboarded clients. Entrepreneurs are then the second stakeholders in our business.
Aurore Lanchart, Head of Care at Clind, part of the startup ecosystem for 13 years, Aurore has been passionate about customer service and learning. In her spare time, she teaches classes at Lion (the school for Startup employees) and Iconoclass.
#3 Takeaways by Gilles Chételat about this podcast 👇
Fascinating and smart conversation about Presentism vs historians vs politics
Can historians compete with Google? What is the process of writing history? History vs voice of the margins Do not be a victim but be a subject
Unlearning and learning of history? Social network effect No more licence for slow time Importance of the pedagogy of critical learning 👉 Rebuild empathy into someone else’s story
Gilles Chetelat, Founder & CEO at Clind. Gilles is a serial entrepreneur, shareholder and boardmember in more than 12 startups. He sold his 1st startup StickyADS.tv to Comcast in 2016.
#4 Takeaways by Patrick Kervern about this article 👇
What is the characteristic of real disruptors? True disruptors trust themselves enough to be humble, says Future Ventures' Steve Juverston. They have a reservoir, a personal drive, a passion, a belief in their abilities, and they're ready to admit what they don't do well and look for the right people to join their team from the start.
They usually form a founding duo, at a minimum - think about Jobs and Wozniak. In any successful start-up, there are at least two key people in the founding journey ... an introvert and an extrovert ...
“You have to find entrepreneurs that you want to build on for life,” With them the VC should know how to be a coach, confidant and mentor. Disruptive entrepreneurs tend to find you before you find them - because they see you as someone they might want to work with in an emerging industry.
Patrick Kervern, Founder UMANZ. Sense-Maker & Curiosity expert.
#5 Takeaways by Sylvain Gauchet about this article 👇
Apple is most likely using ATT strategically to strengthen its market power, with respect to operating the app store. Because of this, Eric expects that ATT policy will be enforced to the maximum extent.
SKAdNetwork doesn't include parameters that are necessary for optimizing ad campaigns and that wouldn't reduce privacy protections. One example is the absence of a creative ID, which wouldn’t help attributing a specific user to a campaign yet is critical to advertisers (as Apple knows since there is a creative ID in the new Apple Ads attribution - AdServices).
Ad platforms use to do the filtering and provide qualified users. With less qualified users, the product will need to segment users into buckets and optimize the experience of these buckets to better monetize. It will need to go beyond early stage offers and content recommendation.
Sylvain Gauchet is in charge of Mobile Growth at Babbel US. Sylvain is expert in mobile marketing. He also writes the newsletter Growth Gems 💎 where growth insights are mined.