Toppr.com, a Mumbai-based startup that helps students prepare for entrance exams, has raised $10 million from Fidelity Growth Partners India, SAIF Partners, and Helion Ventures. Founded in 2013, Toppr.com helps students study for entrance exams to engineering and medical schools, including the In…
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Jonny Nastor posts three new episodes of his interview show Hack the Entrepreneur each week. So he has learned a thing or two about conducting interviews.
We pick his brain in this episode of The Showrunner.
Among the topics discussed in this episode of The Showrunner:
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There are two things that consistently get in our way of being creative entrepreneurs — and with a little bit of intentional effort, they can both be avoided.
If you’re a writer or designer, creative block and envy can easily limit your productivity.
So what’s the best way around it?
It starts with being intentional about taking care of yourself. Perhaps it’s time away from the Internet or simply removing the distractions that seem to work their way into our lives.
In this 24-minute episode of No Sidebar, host Brian Gardner and Allison Vesterfelt discuss:
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How do you get your market to notice, remember, and value you, when there are so many competing and conflicting messages out there vying for their attention?
And why did Tony record this session from within a pillow fort?
In this episode of The Mainframe, hosts Chris Garrett and Tony Clark reveal:
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Why talk about dialogue in a podcast about online writing? Dialogue builds tension and allows you to show instead of tell. And so much more.
People love to read dialogue.
We gravitate to the words on the page that are surrounded by quotation marks — the speech marks — because we know that two humans are going to interact … and we’re drawn to the drama.
As Alice said in Alice in Wonderland, “What is the use of a book without pictures or conversations?”
The same holds true for online copy. We want our pictures. We want our …read more