Building a Deep Tech Company? Most Startup Advice Doesn’t Apply — Read This Instead

Learn from Loyal founder Celine Halioua’s rigorous approach to milestone-based planning, fundraising and multi-product strategy.

Scrappy tactics and a huge post-COVID pivot | Adam Guild (Co-founder and CEO of Owner)

Adam Guild is the co-founder and CEO at Owner, an online food ordering system for independent restaurants. Within a year, Owner went from being about to run out of money to having hundreds of customers. Last year, they raised a $33M Series B. Adam’s entrepreneurial journey began as

How I Spent 17,784 Hours in 5 Years as a Startup Founder

Sam Corcos, co-founder & CEO of Levels, shares a detailed look into exactly how he spent 5 years building the company, with reflections on what changed in the transition from very early-stage to scale up.

A three step checklist for hiring successful leaders #executive #leadership #startup

0-$5M: When, Who, and How to Make Your First Sales Hire

Expert advice from Dropbox, Figma and Stripe on timing your first sales hire, finding the right candidate profile and creating effective onboarding to successfully transition from founder-led sales to a scalable revenue team.

What makes (or breaks) executive hires | A deep dive with Eeke de Milliano (Stripe)

Eeke de Milliano is the Head of Global Product at Stripe, helping drive innovation and success in the company's product line. Before this role, she was Head of Product at Retool and co-founded Constellate. Eeke previously spent 6 years as Product Lead at Stripe, working with the

Lessons in Product Scaling and Storytelling from Figma’s CPO

Figma CPO Yuhki Yamashita offers up his playbook for the gnarly phase of product building that arrives after a startup clinches product-market fit — and sets its sights on the next phase of growth.

First time founders obsess over dominating a market, but is this the right approach? #founder

In Kevin B.'s view, this kind of thinking is just lazy — focus wins out. "It's a $7T TAM. I don't have to be the only 401k provider out there, but I'm going to win my share of it."

He doesn't believe in stealth mode (and talked about Guideline to anyone who'd listen) #founder

He doesn't believe in stealth mode (and talked about Guideline to anyone who'd listen) #founder

He doesn't believe in stealth mode (and talked about Guideline to anyone who'd listen) #founder

He doesn't believe in stealth mode (and talked about Guideline to anyone who'd listen) #founder