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Hiring Isn’t Your Company’s Gas: It’s Your Steering Wheel

If you’re hiring new employees based on the kind of company you are right now rather than what you want it to be in the future, you’re…

4 min readAug 23, 2018

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The Best Advertising Teaches People Something

Advertisers have forgotten the golden rule of writing that high-school English teachers labored to hammer into all our heads: Show, Don’t…

5 min readAug 16, 2018

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The Best Advertising Teaches People Something

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Why I Invested in SparkToro

Three years ago, I wrote in Entrepreneur that revenue is the only kind of funding your startup should need. I said that raising a round…

7 min readAug 9, 2018

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When Your Competition Accelerates, Have the Courage to Go Slow

For a startup, dealing with competition is like driving a winding mountain road: It’s foggy. You can barely distinguish the lines of the…

4 min readApr 4, 2018

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You Become Your Network. Build It Wisely.

If you look at the people someone is connected to on Facebook or Twitter, you can tell a lot about them. You can tell if they’re a social…

3 min readMar 27, 2018

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You Become Your Network. Build It Wisely.

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What I’ve Learned about My Company and Myself from 2 Paternity Leaves

In early January, my wife and I were lucky enough to welcome another girl into our lives, Olympia. Mom and baby are both healthy and big…

2 min readMar 13, 2018

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What I’ve Learned about My Company and Myself from 2 Paternity Leaves

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6 Books to Transform Your Relationship with Your Business

The right book can have a huge impact on how you see the world, your work, and how you face challenges.

6 min readJan 9, 2018

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You Can’t Feel Regret If You Follow Your Instincts

When you first decide to start a company, you’re driven by nothing but a vision and your own instinct. That’s what fuels you day and night…

3 min readDec 12, 2017

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Building a Business in the Shadow of a Giant

There’s a definite sense that it’s nearly impossible to build a successful startup today.

8 min readNov 20, 2017

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Building a Business in the Shadow of a Giant

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Can Businesses Please Take More Emotional Risks?

We’ve all heard the story of Google testing 41 different shades of blue to figure out exactly which one converts best. No doubt, metrics…

3 min readNov 7, 2017

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Can Businesses Please Take More Emotional Risks?

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Chris Savage

Chris Savage

Co-founder and CEO of @wistia. Things I love: creative brands, work/life balance, not being able to control the volume of my voice, disaster movies.

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