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1. What It Takes To Grow Your Startup 500% In Months

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It’s 3 a.m. and my phone vibrates. “This can’t be good,” I think, rolling over to read the one text message I never wanted to see: the AppDirect platform is down. No one has been able to use our partners’ applications. And if we don’t fix it now, tens of thousands more will be locked out by morning.

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2. The Seven Deadly Sins of Startup Storytelling

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So you called a cab, but no one’s showing. The only thing the cranky dispatcher will say is “He’ll be there in 15.” You call back in 15, and he now says, “Driver’s on the way. Any minute now.” Click. It’s cold, it's getting dark, and you’re already late. Wouldn’t it be great if there was an app that let you tap into an unused supply of empty cabs and cars to get you where you want to go, perhaps with a little style? So goes the legendary inspiration behind Uber, a story now encapsulated in a single tagline: “Everyone’s private driver.”

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3. How Medium Is Building a New Kind of Company with No Managers

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After Ev Williams first started working on Twitter, he reached out to Jason Stirman in Texas. "You have to come out here," Williams said. "Twitter is happening and we want you to join us." But Stirman wasn't easily convinced. "I told him, 'You want me to move for 140 characters and a button? I don't think so,'" Stirman says. "And I'll never forget this. Ev looked me right in the eye and said, 'If we do this right, it'll totally change the way the world communicates.' I thought to myself, 'I like you, but you're crazy.'" He regretted his decision almost immediately, and 18 months later, when Twitter hit 50 or so employees, he made the jump.

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4. Rap Genius Explains Why Worse is Better

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At 12:30 p.m. on August 19, 2009, Tom Lehman entered the first line of code that would eventually become Rap Genius. By 6:22 p.m. the same day, he finished the first version of the site. It took less than six hours to build something that now attracts 40 million new users a month, raised $17 million in VC funding, and very recently stirred up and survived an internet-wide controversy (which may only make it more popular).

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5. How to Make OKRs Actually Work at Your Startup

Stephanie Alvarez Ewens / Via firstround.com

In 2013 alone, Swipely jumped from 30 to 80 employees. Teams swelled and split, and people filled new roles with new directives. It reached that ironic point where, while growing strong, a company is also at its most delicate — with culture, productivity and alignment all in flux. Smack in the middle of this sprint, at 50 employees, CEO Angus Davis knew he had to do something to keep everyone moving forward as a team.

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