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24 alternatives to Smart People Should Build Things: Toby Hervey, General Manager & Founding Team Member at Pager

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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: Toby Hervey, General Manager & Founding Team Member at Pager launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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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: Erik Schreter, Co-Founder & CEO of Venwise▲67
On building support groups for founders
2016 · its alternatives →
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Zero to Won - 2: Keen IO's Kyle Wild ▲55
Full-Team Support, and Building a Self Managing Culture
2015 · heavybit.com · its alternatives →
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Smart People Should Build Things - Heather Hartnett & Megan O'Connor of Human Ventures▲87
On preferring referrals over resumes
2016 · its alternatives →
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Thinking for a Living▲62
How knowledge workers reach peak performance and productivit
2015 · amazon.com · 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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Soft Control: Leaks from an Information Broker▲61
A new book on surviving the knowledge economy
2016 · softcontrol.us · its alternatives →
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Seeking Wisdom: The New One Minute Manager▲70
Lessons to help accelerate your learning.
2016 · drift.com · its alternatives →
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The Lean Startup▲149
Use continuous innovation to create successful businesses
2015 · amazon.com · 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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The Innovator's Solution▲69
Creating and sustaining successful growth
2015 · amazon.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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Disrupting Japan - 32: Why Japan Will Thrive on Disruption▲80
Removing Gatekeepers, Enables Startups
2015 · disruptingjapan.com · its alternatives →
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Greymatter with Josh Elman: Biz Stone on "Unpivoting" and the Future of Search▲55
Stories from Company Builders
2016 · 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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Above & Beyond: How Receiptful Builds Trust▲55
Adii Pienaar shares Receiptful's trust-building tactics
2016 · churnbuster.io · its alternatives →
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Jobs-to-be-Done: Theory to Practice▲100
Turn innovation into a science.
2017 · anthonyulwick.com · its alternatives →
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Who Owns the Future?▲66
The concentration of money and power in our digital networks
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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The Office Manager's Tech Stack▲84
A collection of tools to keep the office moving
2015 · its alternatives →
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The Startup Chat - Trust▲66
Trust is a fundamentally important thing in any team
2015 · thestartupchat.com · its alternatives →
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Smart People Should Build Things - David Greenberg, Founder of Updater▲74
Everyone hates moving but Updater eases the pain
2015 · its alternatives →
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Kangaroo▲85
Smarter teams through anonymous feedback
2014 · its alternatives →
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Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice▲64
Clayton M. Christensen's book on Jobs-to-be-Done.
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Future² #85: The Future of App Development with Buzinga's Logan Merrick▲61
From two people to 30 people in just four years
2016 · podcasts.apple.com · its alternatives →

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