0-$5M: How to Identify Your ICP — Lessons from Vanta, Clay, Retool
How do you spot the wrong customer before they burn your roadmap? First Round Partner Meka Asonye digs into how now-massively successful startups cracked the code.
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Evari turns to rocket science to solve problems with heat pumps
The startup emerged from stealth with a goal of extending the range of EVs while also eliminating fossil fuels from home heating.
InventWood is about to mass produce wood that’s stronger than steel
The material has 50% more tensile strength than steel with a strength-to-weight ratio that’s ten-times better.
The U.S. doesn’t refine cobalt. This startup wants to change that.
The U.S. doesn't currently refine cobalt, a valuable material in a number of goods and products. This startup wants to change that.
How I Spent 17,784 Hours in 5 Years as a Startup Founder
Levels founder & CEO Sam Corcos shares his detailed time-tracking data across 5 years of startup growth
SpinLaunch—yes, the centrifuge rocket company—is making a hard pivot to satellites
“Launch has generally been more of a cost center than a profit center.”…
Startup Strategy for Commodity Products - Austin Vernon's Blog
Startup-CTO-Handbook/StartupCTOHandbook.md at main · ZachGoldberg/Startup-CTO-Handbook
The Startup CTO's Handbook, a book covering leadership, management and technical topics for leaders of software engineering teams - ZachGoldberg/Startup-CTO-Handbook
Will Boom Successfully Build a Supersonic Airliner?
Boom Supersonic is an aerospace startup trying to build a supersonic airliner.
The Uncomfortable Truth: A 3X Founder's Guide to Intellectual Honesty
Crossbeam CEO and co-founder Bob Moore shares his tools for quashing biases in pursuit of the truth at every stage of company building.
openness to — and active pursuit of — the truth, even when it proves you wrong.
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Nabeel S. Qureshi
Personal writing and other things by Nabeel Qureshi.
How do the most successful VCs pick which companies to bet on and which to avoid?
At Robinhood’s first annual Hood Summit in Miami, Sherwood Media’s Editor-in-Chief Joshua Topolosky sat down with Rebecca Kacaba, CEO and cofounder...
Aa former West Virginia steel mill is now home to a cutting-edge battery plant - Fast Company
Form Energy uses iron-air technology to store energy far longer than a lithium-ion battery can.
How Beautycounter Fell Apart, Sinking Almost $700 Million With It
When the private equity firm Carlyle bought Beautycounter, the skin care brand that people sold at kitchen tables, everything changed.
Firefly is building fast and breaking things on path to a reusable rocket
“For our base design, we’re designing around return to launch site propulsive landing.”…
Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage
There is such a thing as a free lunch
On being laid off & unplanned entrepreneurship - Deep South Ventures
〰️ it’s weird to look back; I sometimes get confused on how I got here 〰️ Most folks dream of being entrepreneur; “a path that seemed inevitable“, they say. None of that shit applies to me. I’m only here cause I kept getting laid off and that nonsense infuriated me. I treated my…
From $1B to bankrupt: How private equity killed Beautycounter, the beloved
After selling to the Carlyle Group, the brand went from $1 billion to broke. Inside its rise and fall—and possible rise again.
Will Stone Replace Steel and Concrete?
A recent viral tweet by Micah Springut, founder of stone-carving startup Monumental Labs, argued that it will be cheaper to build buildings with stone than with steel or concrete within the next 10 years.
AI chip startup Deepx raises $80m, receives $529m valuation
Funding round was led by SkyLake Equity Partners
Build Your Culture Like a Product — Lessons from Asana’s Head of People
Anna Binder, Asana's Head of People and the company's first HR hire, shares her step-by-step approach to intentionally building the company culture.
Why I spent 3 years working on a coat hanger
The Coat Hinger is available for 30 days on Kickstarter! Go go go!! https://kickstarter.com/projects/simonegiertz/coat-hingers-foldable-coat-hangers Thank you so much for supporting my creative whims throughout the years. Can you believe it's been almost a decade?!
The What, Who, and When with IPOs
In 2022 and 2023, US IPOs hit decade lows after the record high of 2021. Now, in 2024, will the IPO window reopen? In this episode, we revisit a conversation with Jeff Jordan, former CEO of OpenTable, and J.D. Moriarty, the former Head Managing Director and Head of Equity…
Turning abandoned mines into batteries | IIASA
A novel technique called Underground Gravity Energy Storage turns decommissioned mines into long-term energy storage solutions, thereby supporting the sustainable energy transition.
Pilot’s Path to Product-Market Fit — Three-Peat Founders on Picking the Rig
The founders of Pilot have started three times over, starting with Ksplice (sold to Oracle in 2011) and then Zulip (acquired by Dropbox in 2014).
What I learned selling my company
At my first company, I internalized the standard advice to never think about M&A. The consensus was, and is, to just keep growing the business and good things will come. I did that, and I was lucky that good things did come in the form of a $130M acquisition
Electric Hydrogen is the green hydrogen industry’s first unicorn
Investors have historically been skeptical of green hydrogen. High production costs, expensive infrastructure builds, competition with batteries and
Startup Building Zinc-Based Alternatives to Lithium Batteries Granted $400M
The Sure Thing
What successful entrepreneurs have in common.
Scientists Made An Artificial "Cloud" That Pulls Electricity From Air
A new prototype compatible with a wide range of materials could grab a continuous supply of renewable energy from the air.
‘It was an accident’: the scientists who have turned humid air into renewab
Tesla speculated electricity from thin air was possible – now the question is whether it will be possible to harness it on the scale needed to power our homes
How to be a Consultant, a Freelancer, or an Independent Contractor · Jacque
I’m in Wyoming to celebrate the next nuclear breakthrough
Bill Gates writes about visiting Kemmerer, Wyoming, the future site of the fourth-generation Natrium nuclear power plant being designed by TerraPower.
How My Business Makes $500K/Month Selling Yarn Products To Clothing Compani
Hello! Who are you and what business did you start?Hello! My name is Evgenia, and I am the founder of Woolstock . Our company is engaged in various types of yarns: for hand knitting, machine knitting, knitting accessories, and finished yarn products. By working closely with…
Salience Labs advances its AI agenda using new chip design
Vaysh Kewada, CEO and Co-Founder of Salience Labs, advances AI by circumventing finite processing power with a revolutionary new chip design.
The Four-Horse Race to Decarbonize Steel: Strategies, Innovations
Discover the 'four-horse race' among leading manufacturers to decarbonized steel their operations. Explore the strategies and technologies.
How A Marketer Started A $500K/Month Custom Packaging Business
Hello! Who are you and what business did you start?I am Salman Shahid, a digital marketing expert and the founder of OXO Packaging. We are a custom packaging manufacturer for small to medium-scale businesses across the USA and Australia. At OXO Packaging, we provide packaging…
Finance 101: The Guide for Seed/Series A Startups - The Causal Blog
The things you need to know and the things you can ignore, at the early stage of your company’s journey.
WTF is Marketplace Liquidity?
Methodologies for understanding and measuring marketplace liquidity
Why so many people undercharge for their work
Setting a rate can be a minefield for folks navigating an industry alone.
?? Why billing systems are a nightmare for engineers
This article was initially published on Lago's blog, an open-source billing API, and was ranked #1 on...
If you like startups you should love anti-trust
Why do companies that were once the face of the anti-establishment startup world inexorably become the very sort of business that they were built to destroy?
A Standard and Clean Series A Term Sheet | Y Combinator
We’ve noticed a common problem: founders don’t know what “good” looks like in a term sheet. This makes sense, because it is often, literally, the first time in their careers that they’ve seen one. This puts founders at a significant disadvantage because VCs see term sheets all…
This 28-year-old built a side hustle that brings in $30,000/month: 'I only
During the pandemic, Quinn Miller quit his sales job to start a vending machine side hustle. Today, his business brings in $30,000 a month, and he only has to work six hours a week on it. He shares how he got started.
GitHub - kuchin/awesome-cto: A curated and opinionated list of resources fo
A curated and opinionated list of resources for Chief Technology Officers, with the emphasis on startups - kuchin/awesome-cto
Why you should start a company
Few things are more liberating or intoxicating than controlling your own fate.
Should You Invest in Disruptive Materials?
A search engine for shapes
Jianmin “Jamie” Tan, PhD ’90
Startup Insider: How A Molecule Becomes A Drug - Crunchbase News
Comprehensive up-to-date news coverage, aggregated from sources all over the world by Google News.
Pollen’s enormous debt left behind: exclusive details
Two months after the startup went bankrupt, administrators have summarized the $80M+ debt the company has accumulated, most of which will not be paid. The highest offer to buy Pollen’s business assets - but without its liabilities - currently stands at only $250K. Details.