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24 alternatives to Smart People Should Build Things - Interview with Ellen Chilemba, Founder & Director of Tiwale

Remarkable young entrepreneur changing lives in Milawi

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 - Interview with Ellen Chilemba, Founder & Director of Tiwale launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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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 →

2. 2
   How to Build the Future: Mark Zuckerberg▲461

   The first episode in Y Combinator's new podcast series

   2016 · its alternatives →

3. 3
   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 →

4. 4
   Growth Everywhere - How Espree Devora ‘Scales’ Non-Scalable Outreach Like Personal Followup▲68

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   2016 · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Startups Today: #3 Bryn Jones - Growsumo▲52

   Interview with one of the cofounders of Growsumo (YCS15)

   2016 · its alternatives →

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   Growth Hacker TV▲91

   Interviews with leading growth people

   2014 · its alternatives →

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   Discover by SumoMe▲174

   Get free traffic to your site

   2015 · its alternatives →

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   Smart People Should Build Things: Charlie Kroll & Sallie Krawcheck, Co-Founders of Ellevest▲61

   On the high cost of the gender investing gap

   2017 · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Founders Grid▲77

   The Growth Network For Global Entrepreneurs

   2014 · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Growth Everywhere - Why An Avalanche Of New Customers Isn't Always A Good Thing▲55

    Interview with Raj Singh, Tempo AI Founder and CEO

    2016 · its alternatives →

11. 11
    Idea Pioneering 1.01▲158

    A practical guide on generating hellishly good ideas.

    2020 · its alternatives →

12. 12
    #nntech: Ep. 2 - Johan Lilja CEO of the much-hyped Stockholm startup Universal Avenue▲56

    How to scale and Johan's advice for entrepreneurs

    2016 · its alternatives →

13. 13
    Growth Everywhere - How to Build a Work Culture That Wins Best Places to Work 10 Times▲61

    Interview with Intertech CEO Tom Salonek

    2016 · its alternatives →

14. 14
    Growth Everywhere - Lessons Learned While Building the Best App of 2016▲68

    Interview with Jonathan Abrams, founder and CEO of Nuzzel

    2017 · its alternatives →

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    Smart People Should Build Things: Megan O'Connor and Sam Gimbel, Co-Founders of Clark▲56

    On side hustles and disrupting private education

    2017 · its alternatives →

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    Smart People Should Build Things: Dan Bloom, Co-Founder of Slope and 2012 VFA Fellow▲57

    On joining the software big leagues

    2017 · its alternatives →

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    Growth Kung Fu Interview: Building a hardware business is hard. Or is it? with Bay Mclaughlin▲66

    Asian Startup Growth Stories and Insights

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    Dreamit Ventures #Get2A Podcast: Scaling Businesses with High Touch Services▲56

    Founders discuss moving from pilots/early customers to scale

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    Founder Society▲149

    An invitation-only organization of entrepreneurs

    2015 · its alternatives →

20. 20
    Hello Tech Pros: Mining HackerNews for Customers▲60

    and building an international SaaS company

    2017 · its alternatives →

21. 21
    Growth Everywhere - How Do You Almost Go Bankrupt 10 Times and Emerge as a $30 Million Dollar Company?▲55

    Interview with Mark Newman, CEO and Founder of HireVue

    2016 · its alternatives →

22. 22
    The Growth Marketer Handbook▲130

    Interviews with 15 awesome growth practitioners

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    Learn Educate Discover: How I started SHEROES and grew it to >1M members, Sairee Chahal, Founder @SheroesIndia▲54

    Raise your hand, work hard, don't box yourself

    2017 · 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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