There’s a widespread belief among founders that venture capital is a precursor to success. VC is a common denominator of the most successful tech startups, but it isn't a prerequisite. To help illustrate this, here are 35 companies that started with a few thousand dollars, or…
How we're using technology and automation to turn high-quality leads into product demos for our business development team.
“Money alone isn't enough to bring happiness . . . happiness when you're actually truly ok with losing everything you have.” - Tony Hsieh, Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose Disclaimer: This article’s sole purpose is to address the core principles of…
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There was a time when eating out of Cup Noodle’s iconic packaging exuded cosmopolitanism.
1K votes, 152 comments. I wrote the below post after we launched our 30th product, just to try to make a note to self on whether any early signs gave…
A century later, Nikola Tesla’s dream comes true
“ By the law of averages, if you reach four decades of work experience, then you know what it was like to be disrupted both personally and as a business.”
Engineers at MIT and NREL have developed a heat engine with no moving parts that is as efficient as a steam turbine.
Zapier has 3M+ users and generates $125M in ARR. At a $5B valuation, its fast-growing horizontal platform is unable to meet the demands of all of its customers. The increase of underserved Zapier customers presents an opportunity.
Before joining Wave four years ago, I spoke to a former employee about his experience. He said something that has stayed in my memory ever since: “Wave is really good at execution, so by working at Wave, you’ll learn how to execute very well.” Now that I’ve been here a while, I…
From Stripe to Notion, Cristina Cordova has worked on some of the biggest products in tech. She shares tactical tidbits on what she’s learned about about scaling companies and shaping your career.
Get ready to fly electric by 2026. Leading airlines are already onboard with the technology and are making plans.
How data businesses start, and how they keep going, and growing, and growing.
Stefany Allaire has carved a niche in small-batch, retro-inspired computers
I used to be very anti-advertising. Fast forward two years and several pivots, and my slightly-less-early-stage business is doing $900 per month in revenue... from ads.
Some of the qualities that make meat "meaty" are hard to reproduce with plant-based alternatives. Should we be focusing on replicating them – or trying to make new, tasty alternatives?
Decentralizing freight transport and distribution can provide flexibility and increased efficiency, getting cargo closer to where it needs to go in a more timely manner while taking stress off of overloaded ports.
Finding green energy when the winds are calm and the skies are cloudy has been a challenge. Storing it in giant concrete blocks could be the answer.
Hello! Who are you and what business did you start?Hello, my name is Thomas Bordier and with a few partners, we took over a dying B2B marketplace in 2003: Exapro. Today, our business is booming and we even acquired a competitor a couple of years back: Kitmondo. We help buyers…
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Helium is a critical—and finite—resource. The future of our most indispensable technologies depends on a new supply.
Every company makes decisions based on the highest paid person's opinion. It turns out it's just a hypothesis. Here's how to tame it.
Molly Graham helped forge a work culture at Facebook that's withstood huge amounts of growth. Today, she's something of a rapid scaling expert. Here's the key to doing it right, she says.
When researching construction, you invariably discover that any new or innovative idea has actually been tried over and over again, often stretching back decades.
I first wrote this essay a few years ago. A founder mentioned it to me over the weekend, and so I decided to re-publish it here. One thing that's bothered me in the time since I wrote it is the way...
There are some features in any architecture that are essential, foundational, and non-negotiable. Right up to the moment that some clever architect shows
Check the requirements, book the viewing, let yourself in, and submit your application, all without emails or phone tag.
An open letter from a former Facebook and VMware engineering executive on how startups can best structure their release processes.
The technology needed to fulfill orders is costly for stores, and the workers who pick items off the shelves often feel the pressure of being tracked.
It’s overrated—both financially and emotionally
Presented by Robert Beachler, VP of Product, Untether AI. Traditional processor architectures are failing to keep up with the exploding compute demands of AI workloads. They are limited by the power-hungry weight-fetch of von Neumann architectures and limitations of transistor…
Want to get your cold email to investors opened and read? Learn from the tips of some of the top VC investors.
Entrepreneurs ask themselves "Is my product meh?" when they fear making a fool of themselves. Some objectives questions to ask yourself.
Vestiaire Collective announced a new funding round. The company has raised $216 million, or €178 million — it has reached a valuation above $1 billion,
The marketplace revolution is still just beginning and the enterprise gateway is the newest type of marketplace.
One of social media's oldest companies is also its most undervalued.
The most popular products don’t become mass popular overnight. It’s a process. Usually they popularity is uneven, they are unknown in some niches, but very popular in another niches.
I learned from bosses & peers, including some famous peeps like Reed Hastings, Patty McCord, and Dan Rosensweig. But mainly I learned by doing, supercharged by feedback from many "Friends of Gib."
The inception of Google’s effort to build its own AI chips is quite well known by now but in the interests of review, we’ll note that as early 2013 the
Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug homepage. Provides safe, affordable medicine or medication with transparent low prices.
Apoorva Mehta’s grocery delivery app is now an essential—and booming—business. Now the 34-year-old billionaire has to show he can outfox Bezos, dodge an avalanche of new competitors and calm his rebellious workers and restless partners.
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In a SPAC IPO, a shell company goes public with a pledge to investors that it will eventually become a traditional company via acquisition.
When good ideas make bad business
Some careers can be made on the back of a single, wonderful idea. We take a look at what that looks like, through Bill Gurley's VC career.