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24 alternatives to Smart People Should Build Things - David Greenberg, Founder of Updater

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Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Smart People Should Build Things - David Greenberg, Founder of Updater launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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Smart People Should Build Things - Matt Brimer, Co-Founder of General Assembly and Daybreaker▲71
On creating more mischief in the world
2016 · its alternatives →
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Smart People Should Build Things: Erik Schreter, Co-Founder & CEO of Venwise▲67
On building support groups for founders
2016 · its alternatives →
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Smart People Should Build Things - Avi Millman, Founder & CEO of BobbyPin▲66
On walking away from cushy situations to build companies
2016 · its alternatives →
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Smart People Should Build Things: Ben Uyeda, Co-Founder of Zero Energy Design & HomeMade Modern▲60
On building a thoughtful and personally-driven career
2016 · its alternatives →
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Smart People Should Build Things: Toby Hervey, General Manager & Founding Team Member at Pager▲54
On the value of persistence
2016 · its alternatives →
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Smart People Should Build Things▲66
Building a path for entrepreneurs & creating new jobs in USA
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Becoming Superhuman: David Heinemeier Hansson▲125
An interview with a real-world superlearner
2016 · becomingasuperhuman.com · its alternatives →
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Smart People Should Build Things - Mike Wilner, VFA Fellow & Co-Founder of Compass ▲62
On building relationships on the customer's terms
2016 · its alternatives →
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Smart People Should Build Things - Jon Stein, Founder & CEO of Betterment▲63
Technology to transform our relationship with our finances
2016 · its alternatives →
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Smart People Should Build Things: Nancy Lublin, Founder & CEO of Crisis Text Line▲64
Tech companies solving problems through products, not people
2016 · its alternatives →
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Smart People Should Build Things: Andrew Lowenthal, Executive Director of Out in Tech▲53
On tech as a lever for social change
2016 · its alternatives →
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Sweat The Product▲153
A collection of stories from people who build product.
2014 · sweattheproduct.com · its alternatives →
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Build▲208
An unorthodox guide to making things worth making
2022 · tonyfadell.com · its alternatives →
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Bytes: Reconstructing an old industry with technology (Alex Snyder, CEO and Co-Founder, Site2Site)▲54
Building software for the "unsexy" construction industry
2016 · its alternatives →
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Work Smart #40 - Jack Altman of Lattice▲55
How to get teams move faster and perform better
2016 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →
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Smart People Should Build Things - Philip Krim, Co-Founder & CEO of Casper▲68
On reinventing the mattress buying experience
2016 · its alternatives →
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Smart People Should Build Things - Dan Porter, former CEO of Teach for America & creator of Draw Something▲62
Dan on TFA, creating #1 iPhone apps & pissing off Steve Jobs
2015 · its alternatives →
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Smart People Should Build Things - Brad Hargreaves, Founder & CEO of Common; Co-founder of General Assembly▲68
Why entrepreneurship is not nearly as risky as people think
2016 · its alternatives →
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Smart People Should Build Things: Daniel Chait, Co-Founder & CEO of Greenhouse▲60
On revolutionizing hiring through tech
2016 · its alternatives →
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Burndown▲149
A better way to build products (by the team at Drift)
2017 · drift.com · its alternatives →
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Building The Future: Episode 30 with David Idell▲53
Building startups, meeting founders, pivoting and hackathons
2016 · youtube.com · its alternatives →
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Smart People Should Build Things - Miki & Radha Agrawal, founders of THINX, Daybreaker, Wild and more!▲66
On building communities and breaking taboos
2016 · its alternatives →
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Full Stack Radio▲128
A podcast for devs interested in building great products.
2015 · fullstackradio.com · its alternatives →
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Awesome Office - How to Use Discomfort and Stress to Create High Performance Pt.2▲61
w/ 15Five CEO David Hassel
2016 · traffic.libsyn.com · its alternatives →

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