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Advice, lessons, and tips from GV partners and our community of entrepreneurs.
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GV provides venture capital funding to bold new companies.
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Laura Melahn
Partner at GV
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Graham Hancock
Video guy. Coffee aficionado. Video producer and Filmmaker at GV (@GVteam) in San Francisco, CA
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Mandy Kakavas
Communications Partner @ GV (Google Ventures)
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Michael Margolis
UX Research Partner at GV (Google Ventures). Author of Learn More Faster.
Latest Posts
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GV’s Guide to UX Research for Startups
How to learn more faster
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UX Watch Parties
How to help your team get the most out of research interviews
How to build a simple UX lab anywhere
When I do UX research for startups, I try to make it easy for teams to observe from anywhere, while demonstrating they don’t need a fancy…
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Field Guide to UX Research for Startups
How to spot the 5 studies startups need most
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Fake designs yield real results
Twenty years ago, when I started my design career, I made a lot of fake stuff. I can still clearly remember when I designed my own CD…
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How to Build Better Rapport For Better Research Interviews
Be a good host and pay attention to status
How to attract top recruiting talent
I’ve advised recruiting operations at close to 300 startups, ranging from a five-person team at Scalyr to a several-hundred-person team at…
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Everyone is a designer. Get over it.
Whether you like it or not, people outside of your design team are making significant design choices.
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The Three-Hour Brand Sprint
GV’s Simple Recipe For Getting Started On Your Brand
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How to Run a Remote Design Sprint Without Going Crazy
A few tricks for distributed teams
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