Chasing Problems?
The best startups generally begin by trying to address a really important problem worth solving. Surprisingly, founders’ instincts to solve problems can also cause us to fail.
Your startup's top 3 priorities.
there are only three things that matter: distribution (getting the product into users’ hands), engagement (validating that you’ve built the right product and that users are using it), and monetization (making money from those engaged users).
Growth Hacker is the new VP Marketing | Andrew Chen
The new job title of “Growth Hacker” is integrating itself into Silicon Valley’s culture, emphasizing that coding and technical chops are now an essential part of being a great marketer.
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Did everybody see what just happened? The pendulum has swung. - Find Office Space - 42Floors
No business plans, not even pitch decks this time. One 2-1/2 minute pitch and a quick follow up meeting. Seven figure seed rounds that can be closed within days and oversubscribed 2x to 3x. Founders with no experience fundraising and no pre-existing
Berlin Cracks the Startup Code
“We looked at each other and knew in that moment that we’d be crazy not to move here,” says O’Leary, a partner at the German venture capital firm Earlybird. “There was just so much happening—founders everywhere, in every bar, cafe, every corner.”
TechCrunch | Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Convertible Note Seed Financings (But Were Afraid To Ask)
We are in the golden age of seed financing. Venture capital funds, seed funds, super angels, angel groups, incubators, and “friends and family” are all playing the seed financing game and investing early in startups in an attempt to land the next Fa
How We Fooled Ourselves into Delaying Our Startup’s Launch
One of the main principles is to release an early prototype of your idea to potential users to get their feedback. But, despite being all in on the Lean Startup movement, we didn’t do that.
TechCrunch | Why You’re A Startup Founder: Nature And Nurture
Just over a month ago, a random conversation with another startup founder over lunch turned into a full-blown research project. “You and I are both first-born children,” I mused to my friend, “I wonder if that had any influence on why we chose to st
TWiST: Naval Ravikant of AngelList
On This Week in Startups, Naval Ravikant, the mastermind behind the indispensable AngelList, sat down to talk about his career as a serial entrepreneur and why his latest venture will have a major impact on not just the startup ecosystem ...
How To Build A Winning Startup (Wired UK)
'How To Build A Winning Startup' -- A Wired magazine How To special, with guides and advice for entrepreneurs.
The blood, sweat, and tears of living the startup life.
TLDR: Startups are unimaginably difficult. Tweet this. Right now joining or starting a startup is the sexy thing to do, but don’t get fooled by the hype. It’s so easy to get swept up in...
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The Crunchranked is the ranking of over 200,000 companies, people, and financial firms in the tech startup world.
Guy Kawasaki on startup metrics, mistakes, and enchantment | The Startup Foundry
VC Guy Kawasaki talks about startup metrics and common mistakes entrepreneurs make.
Stop Designing Pages And Start Designing Flows
Design flows that are tied to clear objectives allow us to create a positive user experience and a valuable one for the business we’re working for.
Why Some Startups Succeed And Others Fail: 10 Fascinating Harvard Findings
Is running a successful venture skill, luck or timing?
A Word to the Resourceful by Paul Graham
A year ago I noticed a pattern in the least successful startups we'd funded: they all seemed hard to talk to. It felt as if there was some kind of wall between us. I could never quite tell if they understood what I was saying.
Adventures in startup-land: 50 things I learned at 500
Personal observations and blatant rip-offs from the 500 family.
Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas
One of the more surprising things I've noticed while working on Y Combinator is how frightening the most ambitious startup ideas are. In this essay I'm going to demonstrate this phenomenon by describing some.
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