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Ryan Kulp Ryan Kulp

startup founder, musician

Ryan Kulp
Ryan Kulp

i'm ryan, a startup founder

The Practitioner Defense

in Leadership on April 17, 2018 Share Facebook Twitter Google+ Email 2
defense of practitioner

when I was 12 years old I got a Playstation 2. at some point it stopped working or i was bored, so i took it apart. as I unscrewed the…

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Deep Work

in Life on March 20, 2018 Share Facebook Twitter Google+ Email 2

i hate all my friends, i miss the days when i pretended with you. –Patrick Stump last month i read Cal Newport’s Deep Work and it confirmed a few things: we…

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On Ambition

in Leadership on February 26, 2018 Share Facebook Twitter Google+ Email 10
what ambition means

several well-intentioned founder friends have warned me with some version of “Ryan, you need to raise money or else XYZ competitor will beat you.” this is a reasonable concern; here are…

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I’m in the Flower Business

in Sales on January 21, 2018 Share Facebook Twitter Google+ Email 12
Lobiloo floral software

this month my fund acquired Lobiloo, a software platform that helps florists visualize estimates and quotes for their clients. i met the original founder Emily through FE International, an excellent M&A firm that…

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the best post ever written on learning to code

in Must Read Programming on January 1, 2018 Share Facebook Twitter Google+ Email 12
how to learn to code

prologue in case we haven’t met: i’m a marketer, musician, and developer in New York City. i grew up outside Atlanta, attended public schools, scored bad grades, was rejected by…

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