The Best of SoundCloud
8 most popular SoundCloud articles, as voted by our community.
Artists deserve to be paid fairly. #YourStreamMatters Tell your fans about SoundCloud’s fan-powered royalties. Need help? 👉 @SCSupport
SoundCloud on Brian Balfour
Frameworks For Driving Sustainable Growth w/ Mike Duboe, Brian Balfour, Shaun Clowes
Greylock Investor Mike Duboe, Reforge CEO Brian Balfour, and Mulesoft SVP of Product Shaun Clowes on developing a healthy and successful growth strategy. Growth is fundamental to a company's survival
SoundCloud on Ruby
Backstage Blog - Building Products at SoundCloud —Part I: Dealing with the Monolith
Most of SoundCloud's products are written in Scala, Clojure, or JRuby. This wasn't always the case. Like other start-ups, SoundCloud was created as a single, monolithic Ruby on Rails application…
SoundCloud on Venture Capital
Reid Hoffman | Crisis Management
A re-broadcast of our episode featuring Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman in conversation with his Blitzscaling co-author Chris Yeh. In this episode (originally recorded in May 2022), Hoffman and
Popular
These are some all-time favorites with Refind users.
hypem
We've been keeping track of new music on the internet since 2005. This account reposts tracks that enter our popular chart in no particular order: http://hypem.com/popular.
thisisyourcaptainspeaking
Email: dear_captain@hotmail.com Australian instrumentalists This is Your Captain Speaking released their third LP 'ARC' through Diogenes Music (London) in April 2013. Following two sold-out pressings
The Startup Chat with Steli Efti & Hiten Shah 030: How to Get Your First 10 Customers
Today Steli and Hiten talk about how to get those first few customers when your business is just getting off the ground. The key to that initial traction is to connect with potential customers as soo
The Startup Chat with Steli Efti & Hiten Shah048: How to Get from 10 to 100 Customers…
In an earlier episode of The Startup Chat we talked about getting your first 10 customers. Today we talk about getting your next 10 to 100 customers and even moving beyond that number. Adding custom
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