Tag: Founder Story

Given Sr. Product Manager Nikhil Swaminathan’s background both as a founder and at a big tech company, Swaminathan wanted to share his experience and advice for turning your idea for an app into a working MVP. In Part 1, he’ll start by walking you through how to take an idea — in today’s case, an online poster business — from a concept to a real app.

No question the startup world has entered new territory. The good news? Today’s startups are designed for just these conditions.

In March of 2020, HackerOne was ranked by Fast Company as the 5th most innovative company in the whole world for putting hackers to work. How is that an innovation? Read on to learn.

Matt Clifford, co-founder and CEO of Entrepreneur First, takes a global view when investing in people and their ideas. Not surprisingly, to hear Clifford tell it, there is practically no place on earth where startups and their investors are conducting business as usual. So, what should founders anticipate as they look to raise their next round, and whom should they place their trust in as they navigate the months ahead?

Data practically runs through the veins of Steven Mih, CEO of opensource data orchestration startup Alluxio. He’s a serial startup CEO with more than two decades in the distributed data world. We recently sat down with him on the What Works podcast to learn more.

Serial startup founder, angel investor, and college dropout George Burgess founded exam prep startup Gojimo when he was an undergraduate student at Stanford. Burgess was seemingly living the founder dream, but as his dorm-room startup found an audience Burgess found it was too hard to juggle both school and building his company. So, he left Stanford, and that is where his entrepreneurial education really began.

Restlessness, resourcefulness, and an ambition to take on the world. This is how angel investor Richard Fearn picks founders from the crowd.

8 Securities CEO and Cofounder Mikaal Abdullah, an E-Trade veteran, walks us through building a startup and raising a family in Hong Kong on our What Works podcast.

2019 U.K. Angel of the Year, Sunil Shah, explains why doing your homework before you pitch an investor, and listening – yes listening – are the keys to getting an angel round done.

Hire people who can take over your job. Sounds simple, but then you have to really let them do it, and that’s hard, especially a CTO used to getting her hands in every bit of code. Plus, how your marketing department can take a cue from agile development routines.