#16 Top Reasons Startups Fail, denoise your old photos, Developers' side projects and more.

and some growth hacks from top silicon valley startups

Hi 👋 Everyone, issue 16 is here to share with you some good links I found interesting in the past two weeks. Please also share yours in the comments.

✍🏽 Article

1. How to Make the Most of Your 24 Hours

2. The Top 12 Reasons Startups Fail

3. Why Developers Are Building So Many Side Projects

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🛠 Tool

• ClipDrop Upscale, denoise, and enhance your images in seconds.

• Startup101 Looking to join a startup? An updated list of available entry to mid-level jobs at hot startups in Egypt.

• App Icon Generator

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🐥 Tweet

Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz

To not only close with complaining, but constructive "what is better" points, here are two: 1. Do projects and have engineers lead them! It's what I did: blog.pragmaticengineer.com/how-to-lead-a-… 2. A deepdive in why most of Big Tech moved well beyond Scrum (or Agile):

blog.pragmaticengineer.comHow Big Tech Runs Tech Projects and the Curious Absence of ScrumA survey of how tech projects run across the industry highlights Scrum being absent from Big Tech. Why is this, and are there takeaways others should take note of?

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🎙Podcast

2. After working as a product leader for over 20 years, Marty Cagan started Silicon Valley Product Group to help product teams operate at a higher level. In this conversation, Marty shares what Steve Jobs can teach you about building product, how to structure your teams for innovation, how to improve your product culture

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🎬Video

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📖 Book

• Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

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