How focusing on the customer (not the competition) brought us over 1 million new...
Last February, we launched a new product version.
We had spent nearly all of 2016 revamping a core feature and we were excited about what...
Setting Funds on Fire: How and Why Most Startups Waste Their First Round of...
Do you remember the first time you were handed $20 by your parents or received your first paycheck from a part-time job while in...
Want to build a successful startup? Adopt these 3 mindsets immediately.
What if you put in time, money and effort to create a product, to see that no one buys it?
You’ve put your hopes and...
Confessions of a Startup Mole in a Dumb Big Company
On September 21st 2015, I walked past the smell of weed and cigarettes at 1455 Market in SF to my new job at Square, an...
From Unfundable to Unstoppable
Last week, Brian Chesky published an open letter to the AirBnB communityabout what it means to him to be a modern company. In it, he...
Turning Crisis Into Opportunity: 5 Ways to Deal With Hardship
Entrepreneurs face obstacles from the moment they wake up in the morning, whether they’re trying to satisfy investors, struggling to meet payroll, dealing with...
Why I Never Answer ‘Busy’ When People Ask ‘How Are You?’
Do you know that feeling of being so busy that time flies with a blink of an eye? We’re so busy with all kinds...
The two laws of building products
1.If you can’t sell it, don’t build it
2.If you can’t build it, don’t sell it
The single necessary and sufficient condition for a business, says MIT’s...
Leave The Office On Time and Don’t Take Your Work Home
Author: Darius Foroux
These two lessons are true for every person who wants a long, happy, and satisfying career.
But it’s very hard to put that advice...
How to Create a Product and Sell it for $500,000 on Shark Tank
Author: Dave Schools
In a moment of surprise, Robert Herjavec presented Riley with a stunning offer:
“Here’s my offer and it’s a little bit different,” says Herjavec....
20 Companies That Are *Really* Changing the World.
Author: Timothy Nordvedt
Announcing the 2018 NewCo Honors Nominees
We’re in the final stretch leading up to NewCo Shift Forum and are pleased to announce the nominees for the NewCo Honors,...
Why you should stop using product roadmaps and try GIST Planning
Author: Itamar Gilad
Over the years I created my fair share of product strategies, roadmaps and project gantts. I don’t do them anymore. I found a...
A Message For Overwhelmed Entrepreneurs
Author: Sadda Shaker
If you’re an entrepreneur like myself, we both know that work never ends. Trying to maintain your sanity, and therefore your creativity is...
These 10 Hidden Gmail Productivity Hacks Will Give You Goosebumps
Author: Larry Kim
For many, Gmail is their preferred email service. But, even when you get to use your favored provider, that doesn’t necessarily make managing...
Things are going so well we’re doing a hiring freeze
Author: DHH
Business has never been better at Basecamp. Despite all the competition, all the noise, and all the changes since we launched 14 years ago, 2017...
Steps to Validate your startup idea before you spend any $…even $1….
Author: Saloni Kapoor
“Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.” — Drew Houston, co-founder and CEO of Dropbox
You’ve been working on a cool idea...
Put Your Startup On The Right Track In 30 Days.
Author: Bram Krommenhoek
What smart entrepreneurs do different.
What’s your make-it-or-break-it of your startup?
42% of startups failed because they didn’t solve a market need.
The biggest mistake: not building...
10 Web Development Companies You want to work with in 2018
Author: Aleks Pedchenko
Finding web programmers that will work is difficult enough, and that’s why these 10 companies are worth keeping an eye on.
Despite seemingly everyone having...
6 Ways Your Videos Can Boost the Growth of Your Startup
Author: Larry Kim
The standard business pitch presentation is so… yawn.
Think about it. How much do you enjoy sitting through slide after slide of numbers, figures and plans...
How to lead, challenge and coach corporate rebels
Author: Marcus Raitner
Change needs disturbance. Every organization needs people who question the status quo. As jesters or corporate rebels, they cause constructive irritation and thus...
Want Growth? Don’t Look At Your Customer Data
Author: Andrea F Hill
Paying too much attention to today’s customers may make you blind to tomorrow’s.
It’s an easy trap to fall into.
Your company is doing...
How E-Commerce will change in the next 5 years and what you can do...
Author: Dwayne Gefferie
Back in 1998, when I created my first website, I could not have imagined what kind of impact it would have on my...
Bleisure Travel: How to Capitalize on Business Travelers That Linger for Leisure
Author: AltexSoft Inc
Even office-based professionals may feel they’re losing that difficult balancing act between work life and social life. A subway ride to or from...
What is a great Product Strategy, really?
Author: Espen Sundve
After having spent years building products, and recently led the buildup of one of the largest product & tech organizations in Norway, people...
Actions reflect leadership — not words
Author: Claire Lew
“It’s not what you say that matters — it’s what you do.”
I observed the truth of this old adage, firsthand, about six years ago.
At the time,...
The Limits of Loyalty: When Habits Change, You’re Toast
Author: Nir Eyal
“I’m endlessly loyal,” my wife said, staring straight into my eyes. But she wasn’t talking about our marriage — she was pledging her allegiance to...
Amazon is the biggest threat to bitcoin right now
Author: Coin and Crypt
Over the past year, a growing number of people have leapt to take part in bitcoin’s meteoric rise. Teenagers have invested their...
How a Solo, Non-Technical Founder built a Million Dollar Tech Startup staying bootstrapped
Author: Neeraj Joshi
Whenever we talk about a million dollar tech startup, the first question that comes to our mind is: How much money it has raised till...
Why HubSpot’s Building a Centralized Platform
Author: HubSpot
In one year, HubSpot doubled the number of certified partners in its platform ecosystem and increased the number of apps installed by customers by...
11 Angel Investing Lessons
Author: Spearhead
11 Angel Investing Lessons
In the words of Charlie Munger, investing requires a latticework of mental models. Here are 11 lessons to begin filling out...
Profits *Because of* Purpose
Author: Andrew Beebe
Milton Friedman would agree: give the people what they want.
Much has been written about the lofty goal of creating profits while somehow also delivering...
The Secret To Becoming an Annoyingly Productive Early Morning Person
Author: Nick Wignall
3 reasons why a boring evening routine is essential to a productive morning.
I’ve been accused on several occasions of being “one of those...
Building a Truly Successful Personal Brand Takes Vulnerability
Author: Nicolas Cole
When people think of a Personal Brand, do you know what they think of?
They imagine that Instagrammer they follow, a very attractive girl, who posts...
An MBA student’s toolkit for the smart machine age
New problem-solving skills are needed as tech advances into areas such as medicine and law
Author: The Financial Times
Do you remember Ello?
In the fall of 2014 headlines praised...
How I accidentally launched a startup while waiting for my visa
Author: Mathias J. Klenk
Ever since I was a child growing up in Germany, I dreamed of living in California’s Silicon Valley — a place driven by innovation...
Maternity Leave — an American in Canada
Author: Melissa Nightingale
On motherhood as a startup exec, maternity leave as an expat, missing work as a recovering workaholic, and the perils of mama group...
