Avichal Garg

Sharing lessons from running a startup through 2008. Hope it's useful to founders.👇 1/ Most important: prioritize your health and family. It's clearly stressful as the world feels like it's falling apart. If you are healthy and have your loved ones, you will be fine long term.

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Why Education Startups Do Not Succeed (2011)

2017356 points203 comments Startups details

I co-founded PrepMe in 2001. We were one of the first education companies online and the first purely online, personalized platform. We were acquired in 2011 by Providence Equity-backed Ascend Lea…

Focus on building 10x teams, not on hiring 10x developers

2011235 points44 comments Career & Management details

There are a lot of posts out there about identifying and hiring 10x engineers. And a lot of discussion about whether or not these people even exist. At Spool, we’ve taken a very different app…