Tag: Startup

The Architecture of a Modern Startup

The Tech side of startups can sometimes be very fluid and contain a lot of unknowns. What tech stack to use? Which components might be overkill for now but worth keeping an eye on in the future? How to balance the pace of business features development while keeping the quality bar high eno...

3 Reasons You Shouldn’t Take That Startup Job Offer — From a VC who Invested $500m in Startups

Imagine. You’re employee #1 of Google. Heck, let’s say #100. Even if you owned 0.01% of the now $1.6 trillion company, you’d have $160 million. Hundred still seems too unlikely? What about Facebook’s IPO in 2012 that created an estimated 12,000 millionaires? These seem ...

I just shut down my first startup. Here’s my retro.

Three years ago, when I founded ShelfLife, odds were I’d be writing this post about shutting down. The greater majority of startups fail. Although the definition of failure is up for debate, more than two-thirds of startups don’t deliver a positive return to investors. Couple thi...

I Spent 30 Days Studying A Programmer Who Built a $230 Billion Company After Quitting His 9–5 — Here’re His Weird Rules To Grow A Startup

Until 1999, Marc Benioff had been with Oracle for more than 10 years. He had a lucrative salary and addictive stock options. But since 1996, he wanted to do something of his own. For the last 3 years, he has been thinking about getting out of corporate life. A sabbatical from work...

The Architecture of a Modern Startup

I Spent 30 Days Studying A Programmer Who Built a $230 Billion Company After Quitting His 9–5 — Here’re His Weird Rules To Grow A Startup

How to start a tech startup as a non-technical person?

Are you interested in starting a tech startup but feel like your lack of technical knowledge might hold you back? Don’t worry, it’s definitely possible with the right approach and mindset! First things first, take some time to reflect on your strengths, weaknesses, and limitations as ...

Salesforce — A $205 Billion Startup That Most Don’t Understand What It Does.

e: “Hey! So what do you do for a living?” Salesforce Friend: “I’m an SFE, a salesforce engineer.” Me: “Oh yeah, you told me that before. Remind me what they do again. Is it like a customer relationship management software?” Salesforce Friend: &ldquo...

6 Signs Your Guilty Pleasure Is Your Next Startup Success

I’m just going to tell it like it is: Passive income is freaking weird. By weird, I don’t mean to imply that it isn’t an amazing thing to build into your business; it is. All I mean is that divorcing yourself from the idea that the money you make is directly correlated to the time ...

How to compete when you can copy an AI startup with Whisper and ChatGPT in 3 minutes?

Hey there! So, I recently recorded a YouTube video where I shared some exciting moments from a conference I attended. One of the startups I encountered really caught my attention. It had this amazing AI-powered solution that could help our company’s hiring process. It got me thinking...

I Spent 30 Days Studying A Programmer Who Built a $230 Billion Company After Quitting His 9–5 —…

How to compete when you can copy an AI startup with Whisper and ChatGPT in 3 minutes?

The Architecture of a Modern Startup

The Secret to Startup Success: It’s Not About Being Amazon, It’s About Starting Like Amazon

“I’m building Amazon for the travel industry,” an entrepreneur told me as we sipped coffees. He was in his early 20s, and, technically, he didn’t say he was building Amazon for the travel industry. His vision involves a completely different industry, but he’s still work...

Should You Kickstart Your Career in FAANG or a Startup? My Two Cents as a Data Scientist at Spotify

Not sure whether to join a startup or a large tech as you start your career? If you’re at this crossroads, this article is for you! I’m currently a Data Scientist at Spotify but 3 years ago, I was only a student and I struggled so much with this question. Would I be better off at...

5 Things You Need to Delete to Acquire Startup Success (Even if You’ve Already Been Successful)

There’s a six-word phrase I’ve probably repeated more than any other statement in my life, to which I often receive knee-jerk pushback. I’m sure I’ve likely uttered this phrase at the very beginning of my career, in the “lost” times in between ventures a...

Find Startup Success in the Wild West Spirit of Startup Culture

The best startups have a culture that encourages a bit of lawless gunslingin’ — which is fitting because startups are a little like the Wild West of the business world, where dreams are chased, fortunes are made (or lost), and where chaos and conflict, if harnessed right, can be your tru...

Why the top 1% of founders quit their startup

You can look forward to insightful lessons, practical takeaways and the hottest news stories delivered to your inbox every week. In this week’s edition, we discuss: Why the top 1% of founders quit their startup Why cracking the trust code is the key to growth Why the top 1% of ...

The Low-Budget Startup

On stage, a few months back, I quipped that indie was “more a24 than a16z”. Although it may have sounded nonchalant, there is a lot more thought, structure, and nuance than that off-handed comment might have suggested. In most creative fields you tend to have BIG (studios, l...

6 Signs Your Guilty Pleasure Is Your Next Startup Success

2023 Best of the Midwest: Startup City Rankings

The annual Midwest Cities Rankings are our yearly deep dive into understanding how micro-environments in the Midwest are performing relative to one another in terms of startup activity, access to resources, and business climate. To view the full rankings, visit the city rankings page on Mi...

How Can You Handle Negativity And Criticism For Your Startup?

Launching a startup is a lot, right? It’s not only about the physical pressure but also the mental challenges you must take. Overcoming negativity is not easy. It is essential to understand that not every person will come and motivate you. Some will come to tell you your weaknesses and what yo...

Building a Startup from Scratch: My Mistakes as CTO

When I was first approached to help build the technical side of a new startup, I had yet to learn what I was getting into. I was invited by a friend to audit the solution that the previous technical lead and developer had started. Still, due to unforeseen circumstances, both of them decided to leave...

Surviving the Startup World: Tips and Tricks for Entrepreneurs

Starting a business is not for the faint of heart. It takes a lot of hard work, dedication, and determination to turn an idea into something tangible. As an entrepreneur, you may face countless obstacles on your journey, but don’t let that stop you from pursuing your dreams. In this blog post,...

Startup Diary: From Idea To Backend

I’m starting work with the backend today. Boring stuff. But this forms the “core” of any web application. The core needs to be strong. How do I tackle the problem of responsibly and securely storing user passwords? The answer: I don’t store them (nor does any responsible w...

Salesforce — A $205 Billion Startup That Most Don’t Understand What It Does.

Me: “Hey! So what do you do for a living?” Salesforce Friend: “I’m an SFE, a salesforce engineer.” Me: “Oh yeah, you told me that before. Remind me what they do again. Is it like a customer relationship management software?” Salesforce Friend: &ldqu...

This Is Where Great Startup Ideas Come From

It’s the single question that I get from entrepreneurs the most often: “Is my startup idea any good?” Now, I never answer this question. Ever. Because at the end of the day, it doesn’t matter what I think, or what some west coast venture capital firm thinks, or even wha...

31 Startup business models you must know (with examples)

There are countless business models on the internet and this can be overwhelming to a lot of people. So if you are an entrepreneur then I am sure your startup will have one of these 31 business models. This article is a short summary of 31 Startup business model e-books ( Buy only if...

Healthtech Startup Branding Works for Inspiration

A strong brand identity in healthtech ensures instant recognition and builds trust among patients and partners. When patients engage with a medical platform or product, their first and foremost concern is reliability. A consistent and professional brand identity is a testament to a startup’...

Why Startup Leaders Fail: Micromanagement

It evokes the image of a grumpy, old, bespectacled and besuited bureaucrat standing over your shoulder, judging everything you do and waiting for the right moment to apply just a little more un-constructive criticism. So why do most startup leaders micromanage their teams? First reason, bec...

Why You Should Think of Your Life as a Startup

The period between the ages of 18 and 24 is the most important stage of our lives in terms of personal and professional development, development that leads to our long-term success as people. Let’s see why I say this period of life is very important. Let’s draw a parallel between a...

From Vision to Victory: “Trajectory: Startup: Ideation to Product/Market Fit”

Dave Parker’s book “Trajectory: Startup: Ideation to Product/Market Fit” is a thorough manual for prospective business owners and startup founders. It offers tips and tricks for navigating the difficult process of developing an idea into a valuable good or service that me...

How I’m going to transform the Work System in my Startup.

One of the reasons I want to create a startup is to implement my system in the workplace. I aim to revamp the existing working structure, making it more appealing to employees. By the way, I aspire to remove the term “employee” from our vocabulary. It’s not just about changing the ...

Unlock the Power of Java Modules: Reduce App Startup by 80% and Slash Container Size by 30%!

As a software engineer, I spend most of my time developing highly distributed backend systems that can scale depending on the load. These systems get deployed into a container orchestration system like ECS or EKS, which means I need to containerize them and push them to a central image registry to b...

What Makes An Ideal GM in The Startup World

How it all got started I joined Blueground about three and a half years ago in the Spring of 2016. At the time, we were just 30 people consumed by the excitement of having just launched Istanbul (our second market) and getting ready for Dubai. Fast forward to today and we are now 180 in Athens an...

Berlin Startup Scholarship: The Ultimate Guide

The Berlin Startup Scholarship (Berliner Startup Stipendium, short: BSS) provides financial and infrastructural support for early-stage startups in Berlin. Funded by the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+) as well as the state of Berlin (Senate Department for Economic Affairs, Energy and Public Enterpr...

Chicago’s startup ecosystem in 5 charts

When deciding where to build or join a startup, there are many options for choosing a city. And I think you should pick Chicago  Let’s first breakdown the several factors to consider when choosing a city: The local startup ecosystem + community: This includes the presence of acce...

Introducing “how to startup” sessions

Every week, we organize face-to-face “how-to-startup” sessions with early-stage entrepreneurs, joined by friends from the ecosystem. These sessions typically take place in London’s Shoreditch and occasionally in Copenhagen. While we acknowledge that there are numerou...

Meet the world famous startup hub

Nevertheless. Tel Aviv is considered to be THE world’s startup hotspot, alongside Silicon Valley, New York, London and increasingly Chinese cities. The small country with 8.7 million inhabitants has produced 19 exits beyond the 100 million mark between 2012 and 2018 — the sale of ICQ (re...

Multiverse taps into Toronto’s fintech and startup ecosystem

Toronto is home to multiple quantum startups — Agnostiq, Boxcat, CogniFrame, Entangled Networks, Netramark, Proteinqure, Quantum Bridge Technologies, Solid State AI, and Xanadu, to name a few. The companies cover the full range of technology from machine learning to workflow orchestration to p...

Toronto Startup Raises $2.5 Million to Change the Canadian Payments Landscape

Using Mosea, users can effortlessly send money to friends and family, split bills, and divide costs with ease. Mosea offers distinguishing features, such as the ability to create groups with up to 20 friends. Group members can submit a cost, which can be divided amongst the rest of the members an...

Has This Brilliant Startup Created The Ultimate Carbon Capture Technology?

Carbon capture promises to do the impossible and repent humanity’s climate sins. By absorbing our emissions out of the atmosphere and safely burying them back underground, this technology will not only be the find push we need to reach net-zero, but possibly even reverse the atmospheric damage...

Has This Brilliant Startup Created The Ultimate Carbon Capture Technology?

The DeepTech Startup Ecosystem

Much has been said and written about startup ecosystems over the years. From books on building startup communities to annual rankings on ecosystem health and growth to recurring talks at festivals on ecosystem development — there’s a plethora of resources. But much less is said...

I Secretly Built My Startup to 7-Figures Backwards; Here’s How I’d Do It Differently if I Started From $0

In the world of early-stage entrepreneurs, first-time founders, and startup-obsessed wantrepreneurs, it’s incredibly easy (and common) to get distracted and derailed down a shiny object-filled path under the guise of making “progress”. The problem lies in the fact that we...

Salesforce — A $205 Billion Startup That Most Don’t Understand What It Does.

The splendors and miseries of working in a French startup

Events, meetups, and initiatives dedicated to startups proliferate: La French Tech. France digital. Cap Digital. Startups are promoted, celebrated, and receive extensive media coverage. French startups operate in a variety of sectors. Fintech, foodtech, edtech, healthtech, biotech, you ...

7 Reasons why you should set up Tech Startup in Thailand.

I have been working in HR Tech sector and my occupation drives me to immerse myself in the HR industry. On one occasion last year, I met a group of European founders who have set up their Startup in Thailand. One founder from Sweden told me the reason why they chose to try their luck in Thailand ins...

Microalgae-Based Human Milk, Animal-Free Heme, and $1.65 Billion Seed Gene-Editing Startup

This method, developed in partnership with Ginkgo Bioworks, offers cost-competitive alternatives to plant-extracted colours with higher purity, no off tastes, and a more sustainable and reliable supply chain. The Israeli startup uses two specific strains of baker’s yeast that secrete water-...

The digital biotech startup playbook

In the past decade a small handful of “digital biotech” companies have drawn on ideas, technology, and talent from the software industry to build valuable data platforms for accelerating drug development. While most biotech founders say they want data and ML to be a pillar of their strat...

3 Seed Stage Life Science and Health Tech Startups You Should Invest in and Why

Flashpoint Therapeutics did not develop a drug; they developed a technique. Unlike other traditional companies focusing on creating a small molecule or therapeutic for a specific medical condition, Flashpoint Therapeutics nanostructures can be applied to several conditions. Their formulations kineti...

Startup Clothing Business Excel Database

As my wife was beginning to embark on a journey of creating her new business, I was busy trying to figure out the easiest, simplest and most efficient way to create a mini-database for the up and coming Saba clothing business. Yes… Excel is not the most efficient tool I admit. But for a b...

Startup Sulapac develops microplastic-free packaging materials

Our buy, use, and bin approach to fad products and fleeting trends is a significant sustainability issue. Pumps, sprays, tamper seals, and everything else in between are usually packaged in hefty containers, most of which are made from plastic, glass, or aluminium. It’s really&nbs...