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150k Professionals on Medial now! What a way to start the new year! 0-100k in 9 months and another 50k in a single month! Next stop is 1M users! Thank you everyone for loving Medial and our efforts for creating the future of professional networking
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Elon Musk on the most important lesson he learned at PayPal When PayPal started, the plan was to create an all-in-one financial platform. It was complex, but the founders thought it would be revolutionary. They also had a small featureโemail paym
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What's a startup funnel? It's the journey your potential customers take from first awareness to becoming loyal users. 1. The Funnel Concept: โข Awareness โ Interest โ Consideration โ Intent โ Evaluation โ Purchase 2. Dropbox's Viral Loop โข O
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I'm looking for investors with a stake of 30% Project name: seo scanner, website traffic checker and other reports Users: businesses with websites, digital marketer and MBA students - world wide Current demand - 10k to 100k searches every day Mo
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Meet the man who sold his company to Microsoft for 1600 CR in 18 months. 1.Born in Chandigarh (Punjab) to a banker mom and an army officer dad, Sabeer Bhatia always wanted to become an army officer. But then he was introduced to the World of scienc
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