308 Blog Posts To Learn About Founder Stories

29 May 2026

Founders, very often, solve problems that we don't know we have yet.

1. Building a Gaming Metaverse on 750 Acres of Land in Costa Rica

Alóki is based on an intricate relationship with the 750 acres of jungle in Costa Rica.

2. The Ten Most Impressive One Person Companies

Aleksandr Volodarsky discusses 1-person companies.

3. An Interview With Ilya Sutskever, Co-Founder of OpenAI

OpenAI cofounder and chief scientist Ilya Stuskever talks about ChatGPT and the promise of models like GPT-4

4. Optimize for Alignment, Not Control. Great Leaders Serve. And More Startup Mantras :-)

Leadership is a craft, like medicine, writing, and bricklaying. Mantras can help you develop yours by signposting the way to deep truths.

5. 7 Giant Businesses That Started in Garages and Basements

When we think of the world's most successful companies, we think about large offices and employees that were there from the very beginning. In fact, many companies started their business in the founder's bedroom or garage.

6. How a Solo Developer Can Make $1,100,000 Per Month

It's possible for a solo developer to build a profitable microstartup to pay the bills and live life on their own terms.

[7. How Fitt Insider Started With

a Newsletter and Reached The Top of the Fitness Industry](https://hackernoon.com/how-fitt-insider-started-with-a-newsletter-and-reached-the-top-of-the-fitness-industry) When it comes to building a successful business, the journey of Anthony Vennare, co-founder of Fitt Insider, offers invaluable insights. From leveraging persona

8. The Fork Reshaping MCP Testing: How a 24-Year-Old CTO Is Taking On One of AI’s Biggest Players

A 24-year-old developer built MCPJam, an open-source rival that outpaced Anthropic’s Inspector—and may redefine how AI agents are tested.

9. 9 Lessons I Learned as the Founding Marketer of a Tech Startup

Navigating the startup world can be challenging, yet quite a rewarding journey.

10. How a Data Engineer-Turned-Music-Producer Is Revolutionizing Spatial Intelligence

Read the story of a Romanian engineer-musician blending creativity and ML to build human-centric AI cameras while keeping his passion for music alive.

11. Founder Interviews: Artem Petakov of Noom

What's Your Background, and How Did That Lead You to Your Current Role?

12. Tech Made in Ukraine: The People Behind the Platforms We Use Every Day

Discover how Ukrainian tech talent is driving global innovation through success stories like GitLab, Revolut, Grammarly, Wise, and Moss.

13. Founder Interviews: Oleg Shchegolev of SEMrush

<em>Learn how Oleg Shchegolev grew SEMrush from $0 to over $50 million in revenue.</em>

14. Why I Stopped Working for Free (And Why You Should Too)

15. "The Timing Was Off!" — Strava Co-Founder Mark Gainey on Popularizing Fitness on the Internet

Mark Gainey talks about the early challenges of creating Strava and how him and his co-founder built a healthy, profitable business.

16. I Launched 6 Startups in 8 Months (And 5 of Them Failed)

A story about founding several startups, funding, investor relationships, writing software and winning hackathons.

17. 9 Startup Metrics For Tech Founders To Track

In this post, you will find nine essential metrics that you should know about and measure. Your KPIs can change as your startup grows.

18. Founder Interviews: Stephen Tse of Harmony.one

<em>A serial founder who sold a startup to Apple and worked on infrastructure projects at Google, Harmony.one founder & CEO Stephen Tse has raised an $18M seed round and assembled one of the top engineering teams to build a next-generation high-performance blockchain protocol.</em>

19. Web3 Technologies Show the Promise of Achieving the Original Vision Behind the World Wide Web

Fetch.ai is one of the Cosmos hubs within the Cosmos ecosystem that leverages the Cosmos SDK.

20. Founders at Work: 150+ YCombinator Founders’ Stories

Jessica Livingston's book "Founders at work" (2007, 32 stories) inspired thousands of founders to start their startups.

21. On Building a Crypto Trading Platform with Jennifer, Co-founder of Coinstore

In with the new, out with the old. Coinstore is the crypto exchange for the new generation. Learn what their co-founder, Jennifer, has to say.

22. I Quit My Job at the Age of 36 to Be Happy

Hi! my name is O. I am the founder of Goodnight Journal, where people come to write their own private and public journals. In this blog article, I want to share my own story about quitting my job and working on the app that I’m passionate about while traveling.

23. Decentralized Cloud Gaming: Exclusive Interview With Aethir CEO Mark Rydon

I recently was able to discuss Aethir’s mission to solve the cloud scalability challenge for gaming and other streaming content...

24. Founder Interviews: Max Krohn of Keybase

What's your background, and what are you working on?

25. Why I Chose to Open Source Aloha: My Commitment to Privacy and Collaboration

The creator of private internet browser Aloha tells his story and shares why he decided to go open source

26. Building an E-Sports Empire: How John Fazio Took Nerd Street Gamers from Bootstrap to $25 Million

John Fazio built Nerd Street Gamers into an in esports and gaming infrastructure by finding premier investors who align strongly with his vision.

27. Changing the Crypto Market with Index Investing: An Interview with Alongside's Austin Diamond

Interview with Alongside Co-founder Austin Diamond on their new crypto market index token and the impact of index investing on the crypto market.

28. Meet TakeProfit: The Ultimate Platform for Self-Directed Investors

TakeProfit.com: The Ultimate Game-Changer in the Trading Research

29. 10 Lessons I Learned as a First-time Tech Product Founder

In this story, I am sharing the details of how we took Blockroll from just an idea to a launched product and what I learned as a startup founder in six months.

30. Nine Lessons I Learnt Over Nine Years Running A Company

I sent the following note to the Sift team today. I’m also sharing it here in case it’s useful to others.

31. 25 Startup Tips From 25 Venture Backed Founders

A collection of insider tips from our "How I Raised It" podcast

32. An Intro to Soulbound Tokens With Brendan Playford, Co-Founder of Masa Finance

Soulbound tokens (SBTs) are non-transferrable, non-fungible tokens (NFTs) that can serve as a web3 user’s identity that are intrinsically tied to their owners.

33. How I Launch A Postwoman v1.0 👽: Free, Fast & Beautiful Alternative To Postman 🎉

So, here’s how Postwoman happened.

34. Interview With Iurii Gugnin: Boosting U.S. Export Competitiveness With Cheaper Remittances

Iurii Gugnin delves into the challenges faced by the U.S. in expanding its exports and the reasons behind the high costs of international wire transfers

35. The Pillars of a Successful Startup

The ability to launch and scale a project efficiently is a practice mastered with experience and, in most cases, a whole portfolio of failures.

36. “Something much broader than compensation drives us.”—Emil Eifrem, Neo4j Founder — Interview

Emil first sketched the idea for the company on the back of a napkin during his flight to Mumbai in 2000. Today, the company is the world’s leading graph platform, powering mission-critical enterprise applications, including artificial intelligence, fraud detection, real-time recommendations, and master data.

37. Founder Interviews: Jeremy Burton of Wonolo

38. Launched a Project Twice with Two Horrible Names but Still Made Money!

Launched a Project Twice with Two Horrible Names but Still Made Money!

39. How I Started My Own Business at 19

Hi there. My name is Mandy, and I'm 24 this year. I don’t have many years of wisdom to preach about, but I do have something interesting to share for those who are afraid to take the leap of faith – the story of how I started my own business at 19.

40. The Trek of a Solo Founder

The first time I’d considered working at a startup, I was still in college, commuting from my parent’s house to save on student loans.

41. What Are The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly Startup Lessons From Netflix’s Movie “The White Tiger”?

What is “The White Tiger?" If you’re asking startup founders, the answer is - not just another Netflix movie, but a unique collection of great business lessons.

42. Sadly, 'This' is America #StopAsianHate

The comment that my team had received on a post/ad that we ran to drive awareness about our brand EQUO.

43. 7 Steps I Kept Repeating Until I Hit $2M ARR

I started in 2004, made an exit, fundraised many times, 2 top accelerators, and failed a lot.

44. Founder Interviews: Lingke Wang of Ethos

Lingke Wang and the Ethos team have recently raised over $46 million in order to simplify and modernize the archaic life insurance industry.

45. The Pirate Bay Is Still Alive: Words From One of the Co-Founders

Peter Kolmisoppi explains why The Pirate Bay is still alive and some websites aren't.

46. Understanding the Different Kinds of Founder Madness

The six Archetypes of Founder Madness: Imperial Individualist, Naively Confident, Strategic Contrarian, Frontier Explorer, Mad Scientist, and Global Catalyst.

47. 479 Founder Interviews Later: Here are 15 Sure-Fire Acquisition Channels

This is a post that took almost 240+ hours to research.

48. Meet the Man Who Has Bought Over 500 Companies

Luke Sophinos tells the story of Mark Leonard.

49. Decentralization Will Force Institutions to Conform or Die: Brandon Burgason, CEO of Mobie Labs

Brandon Burgason is the CEO and Founder of Mobie Labs. He explains the barriers that are keeping blockchain from realizing its full potential.

50. Startup Legal Due Diligence: A Brief Guide for Investors and Founders

The guide centers on the legal aspects of due diligence (DD) and outlines the 10 most common mistakes.

51. I Built a €500K Neobank for Immigrants—It Didn't Go As Planned

I built and shut down a €500K neobank for immigrants in Portugal. Here's a post-mortem.

52. Everything I Learned About Generating Startup Ideas in My First 10 Years as a Founder

This article is a compilation of everything that I learned about how to generate product ideas. It’s my my way of learning and it’s not a finished work I will update it as I learn more in my journey to great great products.

53. How Bildr is Combining Web3 & No-Code

How does web3 impact SaaS companies? And how might it intersect with no-code?

54. The Sandbox - An Overnight Success (10 Years in the Making)

Sandbox is one of the most successful metaverses in Web3 with more springing up overnight. There are more than 2 million wallets registered to TSB

55. Innovating ESOP Distribution: An Interview With Eqvista Founder Tomas Milar

I sat down with Eqvista founder Tomas Milar for his insights on ESOP distribution in modern-day businesses.

56. Startup Interview with Alex Cojocaru, CEO of Licenseware

Licenseware is the first open app ecosystem for software license management. Reduce software costs and manage licensing risks, PAYIG, completely modular.

57. The Agony of a First Time Founder

First time founders build out of passion. They face a problem and try to solve for themselves, making assumptions that everyone has the same problem.

58. 3 Lessons I’ve Learned Leading My Startup to Global Markets

Getting your startup to succeed in markets across the globe is worthwhile but requires brings extra challenges thanks to each country having a distinct culture.

59. Eugene Lisovskiy, Level up Basket Founder: “Community Is the Core of Everything; It Inspires Growth”

Read for opinions on growing a robust community in any niche, adapting your product to the metaverse, the power of outsourcing and the future of AI.

60. How to Not Fail Your Next Startup

Over the past 7 years I have worked in large IT companies in the Russian Federation, EU, and in the USA. Here's what I wish I knew before I started each project

61. From Freelancer to a CEO with a Freelance Perspective with Jack Thorogood

Talk with Jack Thorogood, CEO Native teams on leadership in the era of remote work.

62. Meet Assisterr.xyz: Web3 Analytics Powered by ChatGPT

Assisterr is a web3 and crypto analytics tool that combines ChatGPT and dynamic dashboards with on-chain and off-chain data.

63. Diary of a Wimpy DevOps Engineer: Exploring Monoliths

Learn how we improved our ETL processing performance from 550ms to 94ms by switching to micro-service based architecture and SingleStore

64. Founders Interviews: Will Martino of Kadena

65. 5 Prompts to Help You Define Core Values at Your Early-Stage Startup

The Tara founding team at San Jose HQ

66. POWER LEADER: Lifekey founder Jason Kintzler sees a smartphone-less future

Read how multi-founder and entrepreneur Jason Kintzler is taking on wearables and fintech.

67. Eight Tongue in Cheek Founder Resolutions That Will Definitely Work in 2023

My startup founder resolutions for 2023 that will make you cry LOL

68. The Story Behind Raising $59 Million For Pilot

As a 3x founder, Waseem had multiple advantages when raising venture capital – yet it still wasn't easy.

69. This Editor Uses the Power of Storytelling to Help Diverse Tech Entrepreneurs Thrive

More than half of America’s cutting-edge companies valued at $1 billion or more were established by foreign-born founders.

70. Sydney Bencriscutto on His Journey From Music Artist to Options Trader to eCommerce Success

In my recent conversation with Sydney Bencriscutto, founder of Double Oaks Essentials, we discussed just that- an A to Z guide on launching a successful busines

71. The MIT Professor's Guide to Speaking That Actually Works

MIT Professor Winston's research-backed speaking techniques: eliminate distractions, use the 5S framework, and make your ideas unforgettable with practical tips

72. From SEO Expert to Founder: The Journey of Kevin Miller and The Word Counter

Kevin Miller, ex-Google marketer, transitioned from an SEO expert to founder of The Word Counter, showcasing the power of SEO for growth.

73. 25 Things to Leave Behind in 2025 for Investor Decks

Here are 25 critical mistakes startups must avoid in investor presentations—from unrealistic projections to missing competitive analysis to buzzword overload.

74. Understanding DeFi With Yubo Ruan, Two Times Stanford Dropout & Founder Of $500m Valued Parallel Fi

DeFi has virtually transformed and entered into almost every traditional finance sector that we know of. The idea of decentralizing finance for all stakeholders

75. Of Man and Machine: How Tech Entrepreneurs Are Leading the Charge

Tech is often termed as ‘the future’ and for a good reason; the developments within the tech sector often shape the future as we know it. Think of how the internet changed every part of human life and how social media has permanently altered how we communicate and connect.

76. The Future of Mobile Apps: How AI, 5G, and Security Are Shaping the Industry

Technology advancement is the future of mobile apps. Vladimir Potapenko, the founder of Madora, explains how AI, 5G, and security are shaping the industry.

77. Past–Present–Future Series: Q&A with Wisdomise CEO & Co–Founder Fardad Zand

Exclusive CEO interviews on a personal journey and outlook on Artificial Intelligence, Web3 and entrepreneurship

78. Founder Interviews: Francisco Homem de Mello of Qulture.Rocks

79. Revolutionizing Recycling: Turning Waste Management Into a Digital Game

Discover Binpong: Gamifying recycling for a sustainable future in our interview with founder Sergey Shayakhmetov.

80. The Power of PR for Web3 Startups

Alyona Karpinskaya is the founder of PRBA, a PR agency providing PR support for blockchain projects.

81. Abhaya Uprety is Reshaping Parking One Line of Code at a Time

Abhaya Uprety co-founded ParkStash, a startup that makes parking reservations work in a way similar to short-term rental platforms.

82. ‘It Is Never Too Late to Learn, Grow, and Inspire’: Viktor Kochetov, CEO of Kyrrex

Startup interview with Viktor Kochetov, CEO of Kyrrex.

83. Building a Mental Health Startup: Insights from a Founder

People have a wide range of different "tools" that can give them cheap and fast relief of anxiety or other psychological conditions.

84. A Philosophy of "Learning By Doing"

Let's change the youth's perception of learning by doing.

85. The Surprising Experience That Led Me to Launch My Own Product

After experiencing firsthand the frustration of having to wait at a barbershop, I decided to take matters in my own hand and build swiftbooked.

86. Assembling the Avengers of Web3: How Andrew Masanto Brought Tech's Hottest Founding Team Together

Andrew Masanto is a two-time web3 unicorn founder, having started and popularized two of the top 100 cryptocurrencies (Hedera and Reserve).

87. How I've Freaked Out and Decided to Build a Startup of My Own

I never imagined I'd become a startup founder. Yet, here I am, a bit more than a year later – doing exactly that. So, how did this dramatic shift happen?

88. 5 Lessons from a Failed Startup Birthed Outside the Bay Area

In 2015, we started Memoratic, an educational platform that aimed to solve a few of the complex problems of our educational system. By streamlining communication between educational institutions, teachers, parents, and students the platform tried to provide incentives to improve performance at the individual and organizational levels.

I’m Ksana Liapkova and I’m Head of Admitad ConvertSocial.

90. Founder Interviews: David Karandish of Jane.ai

91. State of the Cryptomarket: An Interview With BankX CEO Lance Parker

The cryptomarket is melting. The cryptomarket meltdown is a result of the bearish sentiment in the market.

92. "Python is eating the software development world right now"

An Interview with Talk Python to Me Podcast founder, Michael Kennedy.

93. Founder Interviews: James Wu and Allen Lu of AdaptiLab

Childhood friends James and Allen are making it easier for companies to build machine learning teams with AdaptiLab (Techstars Seattle ‘19).

94. Designing Research to Simplify the Benefits of Blockchain for Banking

How will the banks of tomorrow operate, look, grow and thrive in a budding fintech environment and increasingly globalised market?

95. Elizabeth Holmes, Theranos, and Fake-It-Till-You-Make-It Silicon Valley Startup Culture

Did Elizabeth Holmes corrupt Silicon Valley, or was it the other way around?

96. CTO That Doesn’t Write Code

In Quora, many ask whether someone might get to the CTO chair without writing code. Most of the answers are an absolute NO. However, as someone who has done exactly that, I feel compelled to tell you my career story. Hold tight, because this is going to be a long one.

97. Go for the "dirtiest, unsexiest problems out there to solve," say Poplar Homes Co-Founder & CTO

Learn from PropTech founder, Rico, and his journey to build Poplar Homes, a tech-enabled property management service. Vote Poplar for Startup of the year!

98. How a Bunch of Little Pitching Tweaks Helped This Founder Raise $4M For His Purchasing Software…

Serial entrepreneur Andrew Hoag had a huge frustration.

99. Tips for Building in Public as A Founder From Europe Eu

How building in public helped the growth of my startup.

100. Startup Interviews: Josh Aziz of TransferWise

What's your background, and what are you working on?

101. What I Learned After Building 30 Startups in 20 Years

Doing Consumer Apps. 2. Raising VC Money. 3. Hiring Too Early. 4. Ignoring SEO. 5. Ignoring Content Marketing. 6. Social Media Marketing.

102. Startup Lessons: What I Learnt Pricing My Product

Pricing your product or service is one of the hardest things to do. There are so many dimensions to it that it is easy to get lost. Here, I am going to share what I learnt.

103. Reflection: Top 5 Tips to Bootstrap From $1.5K to $16K Monthly Revenue and Raise $400K

My reflection on five key strategies that propelled our startup from bootstrapping to $16K monthly revenue and successful fundraising.

104. Founder Interviews: Matt Creager of Manifold

Matt is the co-founder & VP of Marketing and Developer Relations at Manifold, the cloud-native marketplace company.

105. Startups: Why You Shouldn't Be Afraid to Launch a Project in a Bear Market

Despite the bear market startups should not turn off their projects in the crypto industry and Web 3.0. A few tips for projects on how to start in a bear market

106. AI is Actually Good at Understanding Documents

Explore how Docupanda.io simplifies complex document processing with advanced LLMs, turning messy data into structured JSON with ease.

107. How Many Is "Too Many" Investors?

Brex Founder Henrique Duburas Believes You Should Pack Your Cap Table With As Many Investors As Possible

108. Unraveling Decentralized AI Computation & Web3 with Jet Liu, Product Director at Phoenix

A conversation with Jet Liu on how a combination of AI, Web3, and innovations in computation technology can help shape the future.

109. No One Cares About Your NFTs — Here's Why

Discover how NFTs can be used to solve real-world problems like election integrity and scam prevention.

110. The Founder Playlist: Reflections on Really Good Advice from 45 CEOs

On the Importance of Building Healthy Co-Founder Relationships, Navigating Investor Meetings, and Investing in Your Mental Health as a Founder.

111. Meet Education Ecosystem: An EdTech Company For Developers

Education Ecosystem is a platform that teaches professional developers and students how to build real products in artificial intelligence, blockchain, and more.

112. Daniel Quoc Dung Huynh, An Entrepreneur Advocating for Open-Source Privacy-Friendly AI

Daniel Quoc Dung Huynh, CEO and Co-founder of Mithril Security, is launching a startup to democratize privacy-by-design AI tools.

113. What Happened When I Topped Hacker News and Pulled in 12,000 Readers Overnight

About 2 weeks ago I decided to launch a small project I made on Hacker News.

114. Five Lessons for Transitioning From Corporate to Start-up with Gaby Haffner

Five Lessons for Transitioning From Corporate to Start-up with Gaby Haffner

115. Founder Interviews: Satyam Vaghani of Nutanix

What's your background, and what are you working on?

116. How to go From Idea to MVP

Simple steps to get an idea off the ground and start building momentum.

117. How the 10,000 Hours Rule Applies to Entrepreneurship

Explore the transformative power of the 10,000-hour rule in entrepreneurship.

118. Founders Interviews: Stephen Cavey and Peter Duthie of Ground Labs

119. “Pitch Like a Boss”: 10 Real Tips I Wish Founders Actually Took Seriously

Not a founder, but sat in 100+ pitch meetings. Here are 10 powerful, honest tips every startup needs to hear before stepping in front of investors.

120. The 1990's Called, They Want Their Bug Reporting Process Back

Software development has improved 100x since the internet was invented, but how people report bugs has not changed since the 1990s.

121. Gumroad's 2020 Roadmap

I am excited to share this. One of the most fun parts about being CEO is spending (a lot of) time thinking about the grand future and then figuring out a set of reasonable steps to get there. This is the most creative bit of my job, and I love it.

122. The One Piece Of Advice All Founders Need To Hear

Lose the to-do list, there is only one thing you need to focus on

123. How Slack's Huddles Gave Us The Boost We Needed To Launch

Remote working makes it hard to have the spontaneity that offices can bring. Slack Huddles managed to bring that to one team's successful bid for ProductHunt

124. "I’m a big advocate of Web3 and an anarchist at heart," says FinTech Entrepreneur, Julie Plavnik

Julie is a content strategist and writer who helps Web3 projects rank higher on search engines by creating engaging, optimized content.

125. Tokenisation of Real World Assets : An Interview With OpenTrade CEO David Sutter

David Sutter is the CEO of OpenTrade, an institutional lending platform that provides users access to a suite of on-chain credit products for tokenized real-wor

126. Adadot Founder Alex on Building a Analytics Tool and being Nominated For #Noonies 2022

I’m Alex and I’m the Founder at Adadot.

127. Web3 Enables Users to Create and Own their Web Experience

Fetch.ai is an AI-powered blockchain that allows businesses and individuals to use multi-agent system-based solutions to solve complex problems or coordination.

128. ‘Being Naive Is a Feature, Not a Bug’: Abhinov Balagoni, CEO Pax Credit

A Chat with Abhinov Balagoni, Founder and CEO of Pax Credit on how he got started and what the future holds for Pax Credit

129. How Artificial Intelligence Will Actually Change The Healthcare System in America

Ramya Ganti is the CEO of BabySteps. She believes in creating a more efficient healthcare system that passes the savings along to patients.

130. Twitter without Jack: WTF?!

Jack Dorser is leaving Twitter. WHY? And, More Importantly, WHY NOW?!

131. Trucking in America: My Love Song to the Industry

I moved to the U.S. in 2017 and launched my startup in the trucking industry. That's what I find the most exciting about it.

132. Founder Interviews: Joe Mahavuthivanij of Mythic Markets

133. The Day the CEO of Meta Stopped to Like My Vision

Never underestimate the power of sharing what you think. Write, publish, post. Technology is built that way — brick by brick, idea by idea.

134. How to Start, Run and Sell Your Billion-dollar Business

Timeless advice to profit from your passions, capitalize on your ideas and become a better human being.

135. Podcast: Kate Dudzik on AI ethics, product-led data science and more!

One thing that has become clear in the last few years is that the soft parts of data science are becoming even more important. What do I mean by soft parts? I a

136. Duelist King Nominated as Blockchain Game Dev of the Year

Nicole Nguyen is the co-founder of Duelist King, the first NFT game powered by Dual Launch via OccamRazer IDO and PancakeSwap IFO.

137. Meet The Women In Tech: SynFutures Co-Founder and COO Wenny C. and The Next Chapter of DeFi Innovati

SynFutures is redefining decentralized derivatives by blending centralized performance with DeFi transparency.

138. Founder Interviews: Michael Reitblat of Forter

Forter is the leading provider in e-commerce fraud prevention, protecting $130B in digital transactions annually.

139. Noonies Interview: Daria Leshchenko on the Role of Tech in Customer Support

Daria Leshchenko from SupportYourApp shares her entrepreneurial journey and her vision of the future of customer support for startups.

140. Are Agencies Evil? How We Changed the Agency Business Model to Team-as-a-Service

Dima Skortsov shares the transformational journey that led to the birth of the team as a service model

141. How Allison and Gregory Robinson Raised $11 Million For "The Mom Project"

Gregory Robinson’s Fundraising Journey For A Market That Helps Women Return To The Workforce (As told to Nathan Beckord)

142. How To Build Products Like a Scientist

Every decision and step we take at a startup is based on some belief. Here's how to validate those beliefs and build products like a scientist ;)

143. Minds Behind Money: Interview With VC Zachari Saltmer, Co-Founder of One Big Fund

In this interview, we catch up with Zachari Saltmer, Co-Founder of One Big Fund to discuss the state of VC funding, AI, and crypto.

144. Women in Web3: Tracy Leparulo, Founder & CEO of Untraceable

Tracy Leparulo's insights into marketing blockchain and crypto companies through her startup, Untraceable and her experience as a woman in the crypto space.

145. Reddit Marketing for Solo Founders: A 3-Month Retrospective

A practical breakdown of what works, what doesn't, and how to save hours of wasted effort when using Reddit as a marketing channel.

146. The Illusion of Ideas

Why untested ideas remain illusions. Only through simplicity, speed, and real-world testing can you separate what’s real from what’s not.

147. An Inspiring Story of Sowemo Tech Company Founder

Sowemo Tech Private Limited Founded by Ketan Shrivastava and Surendra yadav in July 2019. Basically its a IT service company located in heart of India at Bhopal Madhya Pradesh. Its a long journey travelled by Ketan from 2012 When Ketan was in final year of engineering in 2012. He had idea of Talent Search Portal. At that time in Bhopal Engineering students have potentials But was not much aware about Angel investors.

148. Meet the Twins That Are Launching the First Comic-Based Learning Experience on the Market

Twins are launching the first comic-based learning experience on the market - Improvement Comics - Learn key ideas about self-improvement via weekly comics.

149. That Moment When You're Boarding a Flight Home, and Andreessen Horowitz Calls...

Joseph Woodbury of Neighbor.com shares three pieces of advice on how to raise capital — from integrating yourself into the local ecosystem to being able to change your plans on a moment’s notice.

150. I Made a Productized Service for the Solopreneur GTM and the Build-in-Public Crowd: Here's How

GTM, marketing, sales. They can't be an afterthought for Indiefounders. That's why I've created a productised service offering a teardown.

151. CEO of Lattice: First-Time Founder Misconceptions

Jack Altman, CEO of Lattice, goes over first-time founder misconceptions.

152. Interview with Jérôme Nagle, CEO and Founder at Ultimate Go-Getter

Become Your Ultimate Self. A brand new app with unique assignments that help you get the most out of yourself. See how Ultimate Go-Getter got started and how you can get started.

153. The Key to Entrepreneurial Success: Seeing a World That Doesn’t Exist

The Entrepreneurial Secret: See a World That Doesn’t Exist

154. Spotify Offered Me Hundreds of Millions for My Company - I Said No

Nathan Barry describes the time Spotify offered him hundreds of millions of dollars for his company.

155. Fear of Publicity: Why Tech Startups Miss Out on PR Opportunities

From personal experience, I can say that many business owners have a near-panic fear of gaining too much publicity.

156. Andrew Wilkinson: Lessons Learned Based on the Last 20 Years of Running Tiny

Here's a big list of things that don't seem to work, based on the last 20 years of running Tiny:

157. Disrupting the Norm: A Tale of Love, Business, and Integration from a Power Couple

This dynamic duo has not only built a loving family over 15 years of marriage but have also nurtured two successful businesses side by side.

158. "We want functional decentralization" Q&A with Wildland Creators

Wildland is a new, open data management protocol with improved users' privacy, security, and multi-categorization. A Q&A with J. Zawistowski and A. Regulski.

159. How to Build a Multi-Channel Outbound Sequence on Lemlist

Understand how to use Lemlist to setup, monitor and track the performance of your outbound marketing campaign.

160. Representing Your Virtual Self: An Interview With Leo Nilsson From Scapin'

Today, I am talking with Leo Nilsson, co-founder of a mobile chat app - Scapin'. Scapin' is designed for our virtual identities.

161. How to Implement First Touch Attribution with RudderStack

Learn how to use Rudderstack's freemium offering to build first touch attribution logic for your website visitors and leads at zero cost.

162. From Zero to Hero: Build a Team of High-Performers

Building a successful business is a challenging task. It takes dedication, hard work, and a team of individuals willing to work together to achieve a common goal. I always say this, but businesses don’t move people; people move businesses.

163. Founder Story: Lessons From Over 25 Years in Silicon Valley

This is part two of a two-part conversation with serial founder and pioneer of “digital identity” Garrett Gafke on how he built and launched his most successful startup, IdentityMind. Click here to read part one.

164. Looking Into Ethereum’s Merge And How KIRA Circumvents PoS’s Biggest Weakness

Ethereum's Merge switched the blockchain from Proof of Work to Proof of Stake. While it addressed some of the old problems, it created a new set to deal with.

165. The Secret of Networking: How High-Tech Companies Expand Into New Markets

Maxim Lukyanov shares insights on how business developers and high tech companies attain noteworthy results through the secret and power of networking

166. Meet the Writer: HackerNoon's Contributor Eran Elhanani, Co-Founder of BullPerks and GamesPad

My name is Eran Elhanani, and I’m the Co-Founder of BullPerks, a decentralized VC and multichain launchpad, currently ranking as the #2 IDO investment platform.

167. Post-Acquisition Lessons on Time & Energy Management: What I'd Do Differently as a Repeat Founder

I've often fantasized about time traveling to coach my younger self. This is the advice I'd give myself when I was launching my last startup.

168. How I Productized Legal Advice Into a Scalable Marketplace

I started as a practicing lawyer working with small businesses. It didn’t take long to see the ceiling of the offline model.

169. What Tech Startups Can Learn from Failed Projects: A Candid Look at My First Fintech Venture

Learn startup lessons from the failure of my first Fintech venture. Discover the importance of market validation, user communication, and knowing when to let go

170. How Mathematics Can Be The Winning Strategy for a Fast-Growing Company

When D’Shawn Russell left her job as a school math teacher to start Southern Elegance Candles, she never imagined that it would grow into what it is today.

171. How To De-Risk Your Startup And Become ‘Definitely Fundable’

Immad Akhund has invested in 100+ startups and was a Y Combinator Partner. Here are his tips for raising capital.

172. “Pay Want You Want” Model Got Us $1M Donations for Online Courses

Join HYLS, donation-based online course platform where you boost your self-development at any price you want.

173. 6 Key Takeaways From Clubhouse FOMO for First-time Founders

Though the FOMO is gone but here are the key takeaways that founders can learn from Clubhouse.

174. "We Work With Nature, Not Against It," says OUDToken CEO Teh Huang Wei

Most innovative concepts lead to some form of manipulation. The only way forward is decentralizing these aspects to keep green investing manipulation-free.

175. "Borders are Getting Thinner, but Division Among Societies is Growing"

An interview with the founder of Quixy, a no-code platform that helps automate processes for any industry and any function.

176. How To Lead Your Business Strategically

The capacity of a leader to envision, plan, direct, and get the most out of the resources at hand effectively is known as strategic leadership.

177. "We Are Moving Forward To a New Digital Age": Shane Oconnor, Seratio BDM

In conversation with Shane Oconnor, Business Development Manager at Seratio, a UK-based think tank.

178. Three Non-Obvious Fundraising Tips from the Startup Veterans Behind Lovevery

When friends Jessica Rolph and Rod Morris partnered to launch Lovevery in 2015, the two founders already had massive success stories under their belts.

Jessica previously had a successful exit from organic baby food company Happy Family, which she founded. Rod helped take SaaS utility platform Opower public as part of the company’s leadership team.

Despite their wealth of past experience, Jessica and Rod had plenty to learn when fundraising for Lovevery, a subscription business that puts sustainable, science-backed play kits into the hands of parents. As parents themselves, Jessica and Rod knew their idea had legs when they began working on it — but they still felt “very vulnerable” during the fundraising process, according to Jessica.

“With the success we had in the raises, on the outside they [seemingly] came easily,” Jessica says. “But on the inside, getting to that place where you have momentum is hard.”

As they grew Lovevery, they found fundraising successfully was all about the timing. On an episode of How I Raised It, Jessica and Rod shared the lessons that came from raising $32 million for Lovevery over three funding rounds.

179. Women in Tech: Interview with Diana Akchurina, Tech Founder and Mentor

Diana Akchurina is a Tech founder, marketing comms specialist, digital nomad, and mother of two. Learn about her journey in this Women-in-tech interview.

180. An Interview With Ian Sanders: Entrepreneurship, Being a Leader, and More

On today’s episode of Startups On Demand, I am joined by Ian Sanders, CEO and Co-Founder of Blue Cape, a stealth startup in the field of healthcare analytics.

181. #FoundersConnect with Oluwatomi Solanke, Co-founder/CEO of Trove Finance

Peace interviews Oluwatomi Solanke, co-founder and CEO of Trove Finance, a micro-investment platform that allows Nigerians to invest in foreign stock markets.

182. How To Run a Tight Fundraising Process

Why you have to own your process from end-to-end

183. Meet the Founder of Cascadia Carbon: Alex Wick

Alex Wick is the founder and CEO of Cascadia Carbon, which is building a verifiable offset database of individual, geotagged trees.

184. Women in Tech: Shanaz Khan's Journey of Building Sustainable Solutions in Tech

Discover the inspiring journey of Shanaz Khan, a woman in tech passionate about clean/green tech and renewable energy.

185. Software Engineer Remi Denoyer’s Curiosity Propelled His Career at Mentoring Platform Plato

Remi Denoyer learned to code and built his first basic application at the age of 14. He was the perfect founding engineer for Plato, a mentorship platform.

186. #FoundersConnect: Abdul Hassan, CEO & Founder of Mono, Backed by Ycombinator

#FoundersConnect: Abdul Hassan, CEO & Founder of Mono, Backed by Ycombinator

187. Startup Interview with Vivek Khatri, Director & Founder, at Emizen Tech

Vivek Khatri, Director and Founder of a Startup of the year nominee Emizen Tech, shares their origin story, why they focus on retention and exciting technology.

188. Enabling Business Operations With Computer Vision: Interview With Tanay Dixit, CPO of Wobot.ai

HackerNoon good company with Tanay Dixit, co-founder, and CPO of Wobot.ai.

189. From Early Builder to CTO at 19: The Story of Alexandre Genest

Alexandre Genest’s journey from early coding to CTO at Hilt shows how real-world systems, performance, and observability shape modern engineering.

190. The Entrepreneur's Balancing Act: Cultivating Success While Nurturing Life's Dimensions

Embark on an entrepreneurial journey while maintaining balance in health, finance, relationships, and spirituality. Thrive in all aspects of life! 🚀🌟

191. The Power of Knowing What to Do

The underlying reason a startup is so hard, so strange - and why so many fail - is that you yourself have to figure out what to do.

192. How To Create Personal Breakthroughs By Mastering EI: Interview With Matt Kursh

A recent nationwide survey aiming to better understand the “before and after” of emotions in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic has found that people’s #1 emotion now is anxiety, and before the outbreak, the #1 emotion was calm.

193. From Connected Cars to Mental Health: Ivan Mishanin's Journey as a Co-Founder and Tech Leader

How to build successful companies and what tech leader should look like in the AI era?

194. How to work on a startup when your motivation runs out

In most cases, positive motivation drives a person starting a new business. He wants to make the best product, become a leader, or earn a profit. When that positive motivation runs out, there are two possible scenarios.

195. Startup cybersecurity 2023: Never be out of the fight

Startups have every reason to feel like they are jumping into an ocean filled with sharks as they approach their 2023 cybersecurity strategies.

196. Successful Founders Built Lives That Energize Rather Than Drain Them

Your home life isn't separate from your business. It's the foundation everything else is built on.

197. Startup Lessons: Customer Discovery is Invaluable

198. Ilya Rouss: “Travel Trends to Watch: digital nomads, non-mainstream places, local economies growth”

When the travel industry will recover after the pandemic, what will the travel experience look like and how modern tech will influence it?

199. Thierry Schellenbach co-founded Stream after struggling to scale activity feeds

Interview with Thierry Schellenbach, co-founder & CEO of Stream, a provider of APIs and SDKs that enable product teams to add in-app chat and activity feeds.

200. Taking the Leap: From Developer to FinTech Startup CEO [Interview]

Ioana started her career as a software developer, but decided to leave Shopify to found Konvi - the investment platform for alternative assets.

201. "Founder Bottleneck" Might Prevent Your Next Raise or Exit

Founder dependence isn’t just an operational bottleneck, it’s a risk multiplier that will kill any operator's chance of exiting a business.

202. Women in Tech: Interview With Maja Roknic, CPO and Co-Founder at CulturePulse AI

CulturePulse's fearless female co-founder and CPO pushes the boundaries of product development in AI.

203. Why I Left a VC Job to Dive into the Hard Path of Building a Startup in Sillicon Valley

Haruka Takamori is an immigrant ex-VC founder and founder of U.S.-based startup, Syval.

204. How to Launch and Sell a Fintech Startup in Less Than 4 Years —Interview, Ankit Singh

From “challenger banks” to cryptocurrency and blockchain technology, fintech startups such as Stripe & Paypal continue to revolutionise the financial industry.

205. Female Entrepreneur Miki Agrawal Champions Global Sustainability Initiatives With TUSHY

Miki Agrawal champions ongoing global sustainability and eco-friendly hygiene through her professional and personal life.

206. How Does One Trade Crypto in Canada and the USA?

By a deep study into the market systems before launch, the company pointed out shortcomings within the crypto industry.

207. Developing Finsterwald Amid a Pandemic: A Startup CEO in The Trenches

Former Huawei manager Peter Stieglbauer talks about Decentralization, Gaming, and Funding for their new VR 3D game, FINSTERWALD

208. Stop Thinking Big and Start Thinking About the Daily 1% Improvement

The only way to learn is by starting and doing things relentlessly. You should go deep into a chosen space, and don't worry about making big leaps.

209. How Mobile Weather Apps Help You Survive the Hurricane Season

Mobile weather apps have evolved a lot, raising awareness and allowing people to plan their time with the weather in mind.

210. The Key to Succeeding With Founder-Led Sales

Sam Blond discusses founder-led sales.

211. "Track Your Mood For Improving Your Mental Health" says a Founder Living With A Bipolar Disorder

Oftentimes we don’t even realize how we’re feeling. Even when someone asks us, “How are you?” our knee-jerk reaction is to say, “Good.” But are you really feeling good? What is your mood right now? If you had to label how you’re feeling in your body and mind, what would you write down?

212. 'Contemporaries Are Always Good for the Industry': Vijay Pravin, CEO of BitsCrunch

Vijay, Founder & CEO of bitsCrunch talks about the importance of securing the NFT ecosystem.

213. Solve for the Edges and Get The Middle for Free: Innovating for Inclusivity

Innovating for inclusivity in tech startups: How solving for edge cases leads to better solutions for all users, illustrated through legal tech advancements.

214. From Bribing Customers with Food to a Universal Secrets Manager: 5 Lessons from a First-Time Founder

Doppler's Brian Vallelunga shares five lessons he learned about raising capital and creating sustainable partnerships.

215. Building a Tech Startup Without a Technical Co-Founder

Finding a technical co-founder is one of the biggest challenges faced by startup founders. Here’s how Audapio’s Founder Dudley Gould overcame this common startup hurdle.

216. Meet the Writer: HackerNoon Contributor Omer Rosenbaum, CTO and Co-Founder at Swimm.io

My name is Omer, I am the CTO and Co-Founder of Swimm, a devtool that helps developers and their teams manage knowledge about their codebase.

217. My College Startup Failed; This is What I Learned

College is a great place, you make new friends, try new things, and have no shortage of homework. During my freshman year at Iowa State, aside from doing normal college things, I spent my time learning as much as possible about how people have made technology solve problems for society and everything that goes into making these ideas a reality.

218. What Happens When Purpose Is Assumed, Not Discovered

A cautionary tale of ambition, denial, and the costly consequences of building a startup without a clear problem to solve or customers to serve.

219. How An "Underdog" Founder Raised $4.7 Million To Build A Plastic-Free Grocery Delivery Service

Zuleyka Strasner raised $4.7 million for her environmentally-friendly store Zero Grocery in two years. She shares her advice on fundraising seed rounds.

220. Being a Non-British Founder in the UK Startup Scene: The Good and the Hard

Explore how an international founder’s unique mindset, resilience, and adaptability fuel success in the UK startup ecosystem and global talent mobility.

221. How to Start a SaaS Business When You’ve Never Met Your Cofounder

The most fundamental core of any business relationship is trust. Traditionally this was built through multiple interactions, which included at least one face to face meeting.

222. Ivan Huerta, Parabeac CEO, made every mistake in the book until he pivoted the business

Our startup is called Parabeac, and we make it easy for both designers & developers to make accurate and responsive designs.

223. Lessons Learned From Successful Founders Building in Public

Valuable Lessons learned from 5 successful public building founders.

224. 'At the Coalface of Implementing Data Stacks': kleene's Co-founder & CEO Andrew Thomas

2-minute look at the building of kleene.ai through a founder's eyes.

225. AttachBack So Far: The Story of My Early-Stage Startup

Can a brand new startup forever change the way we use our phones? I think I know the answer. In this post, I’ll share the story of my fledgling startup that aims to do just that.

226. 7 Stories To Learn About Davis Baer

Learn everything you need to know about Davis Baer via these 7 free HackerNoon stories.

227. How a Founder’s Passion Can Hinder Startup Success

It is common advice for founders to build only things they are passionate about. But, there's another side to that story.

228. Providing Credit for Small Businesses - Interview With Dave Lewis, CEO and Founder of Ranqx

Prior to starting Ranqx, I founded a company called VantagePoint, a growth advisory business with offices in Auckland, Sydney and Dubai.

229. Behavioral Signals Analyzes Human Behavior from Voice Data

Behavioral Signals is an AI company that develops AI technology to analyze human behavior from voice data.

230. Andros Wong's Wonder is Providing DAOs with Technical Infrastructure

Wonder has one key concept and it is that “the future is collaborative”

231. Startup Interview with Brady Harris, CEO, Dwolla, Inc.

Dwolla, Inc. is an Iowa-based fintech company helping innovative organizations digitally transform their payments.

232. "Rationality at the expense of another person’s mental health is not worth it", says Elesaro CEO

An interview with Johnpaul Nobodo - the Co-Founder/CEO of Elesaro: a full suite crowdfunding protocol built on Binance smart chain.

233. "Do what you love and love doing it": Colby Tunick, ReFocus AI Co-Founder

"I don't believe it’s possible for someone to ‘just do a startup.’ It's a mission you fall in love with, again and again."

234. How We Built Arengu — Story and Vision of Our Startup

Arengu was officially founded in May 2018, but we had to come a long way before finding our value as a company. Today, we'd like to share our road with you, so you can get inspired and learn from our story.

235. The Importance Of Staying Humble And Strong Company Culture: Stephen Goldberg, HarperDB CEO

Harper DB is a startups of the year nominee from Denver, Colorado. Stephen Goldberg, CEO, shares the origin story and what makes their company culture relevant.

236. "Blockchain has the Ability to Raise Billions out of Poverty" Rahkeem Morris, Syrg Co-Founder & CEO.

Syrg is empowering both employers and employees using automation tools. Their CEO shares the fascinating origin story and explains their covid pivot.

237. Building Armenia’s First Live Seafood Supply Chain: A Business Case in Market Creation

How I built Armenia’s first live seafood supply chain by combining custom systems, logistics, and smart business strategy.

238. 10 Features For A Successful Community: An Open Letter

If you’re like us, you probably have some unread red-dot notifications in your Slack sidebar. Work-related, a few are from social groups or communities

239. Building a Successful Fintech by Listening to the Market (Founder Interview)

When serial entrepreneur Illit Geller started telling me her story, I could instantly see why the fintech startup she founded, TradAir raised $11M in its latest funding round.

240. Eicrud: The Solution to Web App Complexity

Discover how I created Eicrud, a Node.js framework designed to eliminate technical debt and simplify web app development.

241. "My mission has always been about freedom," says Anthony Di Iorio, Ethereum Co-founder

“My mission has always been about freedom. As I mentioned, I don’t like school — I never liked being told what to do," says Anthony Di Iorio Ethereum Co-founder

242. Meet the Writer: Sergey Prilutskiy is The Co-founder of Blockchain Company, MixBytes

Short interview with Sergey Prilutskiy, developer, researcher, security specialist, co-founder of MixBytes company, and Hackernoon author.

243. BeyondBoard AR: The Origin Story of a Tehran Startup of the Year Nominee

AR Bulletin Boards: T

244. HackerNoon & The Wild West of Startups

Amy Tom chats with David Smooke (co-founder and CEO of HackerNoon) about his founder's journey with HackerNoon, and with Storm Farrell (Software Developer at Ha

245. The Most Dangerous Lie in Startups

Most founders skip a founder agreement because they trust each other. But when pressure hits - that missing structure becomes the root of chaos.

246. 'Time is the Most Valuable Resource': Michael Skoblov, CEO of BITLEVEX

Startup interview with Micheal Skoblov, founder and CEO of BITLEVEX.

247. The Story of Shuttle Planet, Early Traction, and a Bunch of Misfits

"Keep going; don’t let fear stop you too much. Focus on the fact that every effect has a cause, find out what that cause is."

248. AI Has Become My Co-Founder

From automating LinkedIn posts to building a full-scale enterprise platform, discover how AI evolved from tool to co-founder in the creation of Linkeme.ai.

249. From Rejections to $21M in Funding: A Founder Story

Launching a startup is a huge undertaking that will test your personal and professional relationships to the limit.

250. Interview With Dmitry Kubyshkin: What Makes DevOps Engineers so Valuable for Businesses?

Dmitry Kubyshkin is a seasoned professional in the field of DevOps. Here he discusses the hiring of DevOps engineers and what makes them so valuable.

251. Startup Interview with Patrick Stäuble, Teylor CEO & Founder

Teylor is a modular technology platform to build, automate, deliver and scale credit products. We are building the lenders of tomorrow.

252. Here’s Everything I Learned Building a Blog to Teach Cybersecurity

It was in early 2025 that I initiated my own blog, OpenExploit.in, with one simple aim: to make cybersecurity easy to learn and available to all.

253. Startup Interview With Ryan Edwards-Pritchard, Founder & CEO of Cape

Cape is a technology startup developing corporate cards designed to save businesses time and money.

254. Digging Cold Out of the Internet [Interview with Crypto Mining CEO]

Bitcoin is still far away from it's all time high and these days cryptocurrency mining has become more complicated. Large miners built huge arrays to mine, making it harder for smaller miners to compete. As an alternative to traditional mining on your own equipment, which requires solid initial investments, you can use cloud mining, which allows you to mine crypto currency utilizing a remote datacenter with shared processing power, so you don`t have to install your own hardware.

255. Tech Is Shaping the Airlines Business: Here's How

In this episode of "Flying into the Future: How Tech is Shaping the Airlines Business," Omri Hurwitz welcomes esteemed guest Nathaniel Felsher.

256. AI Meets Crypto: A Conversation With EmpyrX Founder And CEO Cam Sandifur

In this interview with Olayimika Oyebanji, Cam discussed EmpyrX and the importance of AI.

257. Production Horror Story: How My Startup (Almost) Went Bankrupt

Just in time for Halloween failures in production are scarier than most movie monsters. Here's a personal scary story of a production fail.

258. Making Web3 Resilient & User-Friendly With Mayur Relekar

An exploration of the challenges within the Web3 space, focusing on the imperative for solutions that resolve user-centric issues with Arcana CEO Mayur Relekar

259. No Stanford Degree? No Problem. Here’s How to Win as an Underdog Founder

Startups love to talk about disruption, but when it comes to funding, the system still favors the familiar.

260. “Four-Day Workweek? I Hate It.” Top Fintech Founder Max Faldin About Building a Remote-First Startup

Silverbird Founder Max Faldin about Building a Remote-First Startup

261. Startup Journey: From Aviation To Fintech

The ninth interview in the Startup Journey series: Building an airline out of necessity & an innovative fintech product out of passion

262. Why Users Leave Before They Ever See Your App’s Value

If the onboarding experience is poor, users will be discouraged from using the product and will eventually drop off.

263. Future of Telemedicine: Lessons I've Learnt From Building my HealthCare App MVP

While I held the belief that planning is essential, this project reaffirmed that adaptability and agility are equally crucial in developing an app.

264. A Statement From Hayden Adams - The Inventor of Uniswap

Hayden Adams on Uniswap.

265. Figthing the Bad Actors with Machine Learning: Startup Interview with Harsh Pandya, CEO Giant Oak

While working in the financial and government spaces, we saw a need across industries for enhanced entity screening processes that use AI and machine learning.

266. The Highs and Lows of My First Real Startup, CoLaunchly

Discover the journey of launching CoLaunchly, its challenges, and insights on startup life, burnout, and growth

267. Startup Interview with Pavel Shkliaev, CEO Of LensAI

An interview with Pavel Shkliaev, CEO of LensAI, who discusses the vision behind the founding of his company and how he measures the company's success.

268. "AI Shouldn't Have the Final Word in Recruitment Yet" - Jamie Beaumont

Less than a decade ago, we could only dream of being able to spend five minutes on a job that required 10 hours to complete. All we could hope for was a magic wand. Cargo dancing with tambourines could also help, but there was no guarantee (pun intended).

269. From Thesis to Edutainment Platform: My Journey Building Startup as a Solo Founder

Personal story about how a grad school idea turned into an educational game studio that reached nearly a million families.

270. From Fluorescent Lights to Sporting NFTs

It pays to be neurodiverse - Ben Appleby escaped school and followed his instincts - now he is a co founder of an exciting web3 sporting platform launching soon

271. Top Actionable Tips to Grow a Community: More Tips to Monetize

Find this article where it was originally published, on dunncreativess.github.io!

Find a Niche!

Nobody can promote themselves or their projects if they're a jack of all trades. Nor will people find a universal proposition to be appealing. The first key to success is to ask yourself what your differentiating features are and who is your audience? You can then start to identify your niche.

In my case, I noticed that I got a lot more traffic from my money-making code like market making or arbtitrage crypto trading bots than I did from my other GitHub repos. What this means is that while some people are interested in interesting code, there are a lot more people out there interested in turning equity into realized pnl :)

272. 3 Best Tips To Attract Investors Being An Outsider

Unshackled Ventures founding partner Nitin Pachisia explains three ways he built a strong network during his fundraising journey.

273. Focus On The Problem: When Your First Solution Fails, Simply Start Again

Ali Halabi moved to Istanbul in 2013 to solve the city's massive traffic problem. His first startup was an on-demand carpooling service, but it failed.

274. Startup Interview with Bryan Schuldt, Tability Co-founder

Tability is a focus and accoun'tability' tool for businesses, looking to align on business goals, stay focused, and measure impact in a more meaning way.

275. Revenue Feeds the Ego. Gross Margin Builds the Business.

Founders celebrate revenue, but it’s gross margin that determines whether the business actually works. This article unpacks why gross margin is the most honest

276. Q&A With Mauro Battellini, Startup PR Dude at Black Unicorn PR

In conversation with Mauro Battellini, Startup PR Dude at Black Unicorn PR.

277. "You don't Need to Rush Through Stages in Life" Hattrick IT Co-Founder Martin Zuniga

A Good Company with the mobile app development boutique Hattrick IT's Co-founder about the origins of the startup, its goals and his personal life.

278. When Startup Advice Backfires: Avoiding Common Pitfalls That Slow Your Growth

Discover how well-meaning startup advice can backfire and learn practical strategies to avoid common pitfalls that slow your growth.

279. 4 Steps To Being a Successful Startup Founder

Confused if the startup life is for you? I'm a founder myself and I'll walk you through the 4 steps you can take to start building a startup.

280. Busting the ‘Overnight Success’ Myth in Startups

Publications love to bombard us with stories of entrepreneurs who find instant success. The problem is “instant success” simply doesn’t happen.

281. From 20 Billion Now to “29 Billion by the End of the Year” (Podcast)

This episode explains that an API-driven economy is the foundation of the digital economy, with over 83% of internet traffic today being API-based.

282. "I quit university and put all my time and energy into getting the MVP finished", says Sean Yu

Making the jump into entrepreneurship, and building a startup, is rarely a rational decision. A good example of this comes from entrepreneur Sean Yu.

283. #FoundersConnect: How Erika Brodnock, Founder of Kami, Uses Tech to Improve the Lives of Families

Peace speaks with Erika Brodnock, Founder of Kami app.

284. What I Learned in the First Three Months As an Entrepreneur

1- Don’t get too attached.

285. Building a Great Product at a Bad Time: Our First Venture Into B2B

Building startups in shifting markets & our first B2B pilot: how Imii proved its AI platform in UK healthcare and why policy changes forced a pivot

286. Expert Interview: Selling a Fintech Before Launch by Leveraging Your Most Valuable Resource - People

Having the right people in your corner can be the critical difference between success and failure. As this fintech founder discovered first hand.

287. Meet the Writer: Hacker Noon's Contributor AJ Picard, founder of Clava

As part of Hacker Noon's Meet the Writer interview series, AJ Picard shares his founder story, passions, expectations, and what makes writing so challenging.

288. From Childhood Coding to Leading Parallel Finance: My Innovation Journey

My journey in the world of technology and entrepreneurship began with a simple but profound observation during my early years.

289. On Founding an Event Item Marketplace at the Age of 20: Ben Kennedy, Gecko Founder

Gecko is a marketplace to hire event items like Speakers, Chairs, and Party Lights as easily and securely as possible (Amazon Marketplace for rentals).

290. Matt Huang, Co-founder of Paradigm, Confirms That Paradigm Is Dedicated to Crypto

Matt Huang assures people that Paradigm is committed to crypto.

291. "Let the market decide what it wants," says Jeremy Britton, Co-founder and CFO of Bostoncoin

I will give you three guesses as to why we chose to call the fund "Bostoncoin".

292. We Asked 100 Travelers About Fitness on the Road—Here’s the Startup That Came Out on Top

A few weeks ago, I participated in a startup competition in Italy.

293. "Don’t fall into the trap of accepting average", advises Scott Wilson, Joticle CEO

Challenge yourself every day to be a more improved version of yourself each day and don’t fall into the trap of accepting average.

294. 7 Tips for Co-founder Dating Success

As someone who went through the co-founder dating process (and emerged with a fantastic partner), I thought I’d share a few “real dating world" tips.

295. Why Did We Not Wait For The Official Statement on Quarantine?

Denis Lagutenko - an entrepreneur, the founder of several projects in the fields of the Internet and affiliate marketing, as well as the owner of the manicure network WOW NAIL, one of the first who did not wait for the government guidance on quarantine and switched his companies to remote work before the official announcement.