Essays, interviews and analysis on founders, company building and the decisions behind growing businesses.
How to decide the guiding metrics for every type of business, based on a survey of employees at over 40 of today's most successful growth-stage companies.
Sprig founder and CEO Ryan Glasgow explains why the key to building successful products is understanding your users and what they want.
Computational genomics pioneer Jimmy Lin explains what many machine learning-focused biotech companies and get wrong about hiring, data, and communication.
Lumos CEO Andrej Safundzic explains why companies that use software wisely have a competitive advantage over those that blindly consume it.
What if we viewed America’s cities as technological systems? Startups need to compete directly with legacy cities to offer better Land Use APIs.
When your back's against the wall, you need a SuperGoal: a high stakes, focusing goal that instills a sense of urgency and clarity.
The Basecamp and HEY cofounder discusses the power of short-term thinking, his framework for startup longevity, and the key thing he looks for when hiring remote.
Forty percent of workers are considering quitting. Management that opts for empty arguments to force people back in-office will bleed talent to their competition.
Isovalent co-founder and Cilium creator Thomas Graf discusses the state of cloud native networking and where the future of enterprise Kubernetes lies.
Takeaways from 30 successful marketplaces—including Uber, Airbnb, Tinder, and Instacart—on when, where, and how to grow.
Sales enablement — the use of people, processes, and tech to improve sales productivity — is key for a well-oiled, agile, and high-performing sales machine.
An interview with Provectus Algae CEO Nusqe Spanton about starting a synbio company, using microalgae as a platform, bioprospecting and more.
The London-based entrepreneur gets her daily fix of venture news, reads up on motherhood narratives, and winds down with sleep stories.
In order to create Iron Man-like innovations, defense tech startups must optimally engage the Pentagon instead of treating it as just another customer.
This book excerpt "ReCulturing" by Melissa Daimler shares mindsets for evolving the practices that shape a company culture, especially for communication.
This 101 guide on college ambassador programs for consumer startup covers the what, why, and when, how to get started, incentive structures, metrics, and more.
A Q&A with Fred Lalonde on building for Gen Z, the gamification of travel, and more.
Info Diet offers a peek into the personally curated feeds and media habits of the people shaping the future. In each installment, a different builder spends two days chronicling all the content they consume in order…
This excerpt from from Talent, by Tyler Cowen and Daniel Gross, focuses on how scouts can be useful for identifying talented entrepreneurs and employees.
MongoDB CTO Mark Porter discusses working with cloud providers as frenemies, and building consumer services for Southeast Asia at Grab.
Increasingly, building a successful startup involves not only building a product that people can’t get enough of, but also building an engaged, loyal community around that product. Today, most founders are acutely…
Info Diet offers a peek into the personally curated feeds and media habits of the people shaping the future. In each installment, a different builder spends two days chronicling everything they read, follow, listen…
Walmart Chief Economist John List on using data analysis and the scientific method to bridge the gap between idea and successful venture.
Okta co-founder Frederic Kerrest explains why all startup founders need to stay mentally, emotionally, and physically fit.
2022 marks our third year releasing the Marketplace 100, a ranking of the largest consumer-facing marketplace startups and private companies. When we started this series in early 2020 (based on data from 2019), we…
We know how to capture value via go-to-market campaigns. Here's how to create value for users via go-to-community (GTC) efforts.
Over a decade after the idea of “big data” was first born, data continues to be one of the most important and furiously growing innovation drivers across both large enterprises and new startups. From providing pulse…
The Defense Department should test new categories of data rights for software licenses. The current ones inhibit competition and dissuade modern software companies.
Unqork founder Gary Hoberman, who spent decades managing Wall Street IT budgets, gives advice for startups getting started with enterprise sales.
The health-tech founder shares the content she consumes to stay ahead of the curve, from fertility journals to fashion newsletters.
Richard Socher discusses advances in NLP, and how the experience for AI startups has changed since the early days of deep learning.
Info Diet offers a peek into the personally curated feeds and media habits of the people shaping the future. In each installment, a different builder spends two days chronicling everything they read, follow, listen…
Foundation models and cloud APIs bring opportunities, risks, and limitations for startups that want to innovate in AI and machine learning.
Smart equity management strategies for employees with RSUs or stock options, a future-forward vision for companies, and a wish-list for builders.
In the rush to build frictionless payment features, the actual sales pitch—the "here's why you should pay"—is too often an afterthought.
If the music business can revise its draconian approach to copyright and UGC, it will empower tech startups to do for audio what TikTok did for video.
We will inevitably blend distributed work with in-person, but the details are much harder than they appear.
Our private lives have become a public commodity. Today, the business model of the web is to provide free services in exchange for personal data. Web services then sell this data. The user is not given a choice and…
Community is the “new” moat (or so some have said), and it’s true: Having a community helps protect against competitor companies or products entering your territory. Whether that community is a group of power users…
Instead of trying to eradicate speculative manias, we should channel investors’ innate affinity for speculation into productive ventures.
Given the emergence of new forms of unpredictability, mathematical indicators that can isolate breakouts and trend shifts are crucial.
What is a network effect? How do we untangle the nuances of ‘network effects’ with ‘marketplaces’ and ‘platforms’? What’s the difference between network effects, virality, supply-side economies of scale?
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