9 Critically Important Business Lessons From Highly Successful Founders
A startup founder’s sole job at the early stages of a new business is to make sure the company survives the rocky first year- In your first year of running…
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29 Startup Advice From Successful Entrepreneurs You Can Trust
The success of seasoned entrepreneurs and investors continue to be a great inspiration and motivation for aspiring and first time entrepreneurs. The startup advice and startups lessons from proven and…
The 7 Things Billion-Dollar Startups Did to Be Successful
Today’s innovative and disruptive startups are changing how we use technology and how we lead our daily productive lives. Young business leaders are changing how we use our mobile devices,…
9 Things Your Startup Should Learn from Jack Dorsey’s Square
Square is an electronic payment service, provided by Square Inc. The company allows users in the United States and Canada to accept credit cards through their mobile phones, either by…
11 Things Your Startup SHOULD Copy from Path
Launched in November of 2010, Path has grown to over ten million people sharing life with close friends and family all over the world. Path is a social networking-enabled photo…
Lessons Learned from a Startup Managing Multiple Revenue Streams
What happens when you take three young men who know little about business and hand them a valuable web property? There are only two options: they run with it and…
Business Lessons From Fab’s Jason Goldberg
Fab is an e-commerce company focused on everyday design across all price points and all verticals. It is one of the fastest growing e-commerce site, having grown from 175,000 members…
Tony Hsieh’s Zappos Gets It, Customer Service is King
Great customer service cannot be overlooked and overemphasized. Your customer is your business and your business is your customer. This is what Zappos founder and CEO Tony Hsieh has been preaching…
Business Lessons From LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman
Reid Hoffman is the co-founder and executive chairman of LinkedIn, partner, Greylock. Reid has completely changed how companies find employees, how employees find jobs and how business people stay connected.…
13 Things Your Startup SHOULD Copy from Box
Box started as a college business project in 2005 by Aaron Levie (CEO) and Dylan Smith (CFO), and was officially launched in March 2006 with the vision of connecting people,…
[Founder Lessons] Interview with Xenios Thrasyvoulou, Founder & CEO of PeoplePerHour
Welcome to our founder lessons series. This week we have an exclusive interview with Xenios Thrasyvoulou, founder & CEO of PeoplePerHour. PeoplePerHour (PPH) is a global online marketplace that connects…
14 Things Your Startup SHOULD Copy from Quora
Quora is a question-and-answer website created, edited and organized by its community of users. Quora is best known as a source of knowledge. You can ask any question and get real…
16 Things Your Startup SHOULD Copy from Spotify
Spotify is a music streaming sensation. The company has survived in an industry where many have failed and young potential startups fear to thread. Spotify is one of the most…
[Founder Lessons] Interview with Michael Larsen, Founder of InsideTrak (Job Search Engine)
Welcome to the founder lessons series. This week we have an exclusive interview with Michael Larsen, founder and CEO of InsideTrack. Michael shares his story on how InsideTrack started…
[Founder Lessons] Interview: Aubrey Levy, Co-founder of Mobcaster (Crowd-funded Online TV )
Welcome to the founder lessons series. This week we have an exclusive interview with Aubrey Levy, co-founder of Mobcaster. Aubrey will share on how Mobcaster started and lessons learned in…
14 Things Your Startup SHOULD Copy from Pinterest
Pinterest was perhaps the most popular social sharing service in 2012. Pinterest is a pinboard-style photo sharing website that allows users to create and manage theme-based image collections such as…