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Let's learn about via these 198 free stories. They are ordered by most time reading created on HackerNoon. Visit the to find the most read stories about any technology. Founder Stories /Learn Repo Founders, very often, solve problems that we don't know we have yet. 1. 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. 2. How I Launch A Postwoman v1.0 👽: Free, Fast & Beautiful Alternative To Postman 🎉 So, here’s how Postwoman happened. 3. 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. 4. Why I Stopped Working for Free (And Why You Should Too) 5. 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. 6. 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. 7. Founder Interviews: Stephen Tse of Harmony.one 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. 8. 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 9. 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. 10. Founder Interviews: Artem Petakov of Noom What's Your Background, and How Did That Lead You to Your Current Role? 11. 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. 12. 5 Prompts to Help You Define Core Values at Your Early-Stage Startup The Tara founding team at San Jose HQ 13. 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. 14. 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. 15. Founders Interviews: Will Martino of Kadena 16. 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. 17. 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. 18. The Ten Most Impressive One Person Companies Aleksandr Volodarsky discusses 1-person companies. 19. 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. 20. 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. 21. ‘It Is Never Too Late to Learn, Grow, and Inspire’: Viktor Kochetov, CEO of Kyrrex Startup interview with Viktor Kochetov, CEO of Kyrrex. 22. 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. 23. ‘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 24. 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. 25. 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. 26. 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. 27. 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. 28. 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. 29. 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. 30. 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. 31. "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. 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. "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. 34. 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 35. 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. 36. 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." 37. What I Learned in the First Three Months As an Entrepreneur 1- Don’t get too attached. 38. 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. 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. “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. 41. 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. 42. Founder Interviews: David Karandish of Jane.ai 43. 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. 44. 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. 45. How Bildr is Combining Web3 & No-Code How does web3 impact SaaS companies? And how might it intersect with no-code? 46. #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. 47. 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. 48. "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. 49. 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! 50. Founder Interviews: Francisco Homem de Mello of Qulture.Rocks 51. '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. 52. 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. 53. 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 54. "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. 55. 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. 56. '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. 57. 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. 58. 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. 59. 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). 60. Founder Interviews: Jeremy Burton of Wonolo 61. How a Bunch of Little Pitching Tweaks Helped This Founder Raise $4M For His Purchasing Software… Serial entrepreneur Andrew Hoag had a huge frustration. 62. A Philosophy of "Learning By Doing" Let's change the youth's perception of learning by doing. 63. 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. 64. 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. 65. "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. 66. 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. 67. 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. 68. Meet TakeProfit: The Ultimate Platform for Self-Directed Investors TakeProfit.com: The Ultimate Game-Changer in the Trading Research 69. 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. 70. 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 71. #FoundersConnect: How Erika Brodnock, Founder of Kami, Uses Tech to Improve the Lives of Families Peace speaks with Erika Brodnock, Founder of Kami app. 72. 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. 73. 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. 74. 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. 75. 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. 76. 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. 77. 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. 78. Founder Interviews: Max Krohn of Keybase What's your background, and what are you working on? 79. 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. 80. Behind the Creation of a Free Encyclopedia for the World Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, tells us why his initial attempt at creating an online encyclopedia failed and what he learned from that venture which allowed Wikipedia to succeed. Along the way, he also shares with us his approach to building a successful business in today’s digital world. 81. 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. 82. How Many Is "Too Many" Investors? Brex Founder Henrique Duburas Believes You Should Pack Your Cap Table With As Many Investors As Possible 83. 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. 84. Founder Interviews: Matt Creager of Manifold Matt is the co-founder & VP of Marketing and Developer Relations at Manifold, the cloud-native marketplace company. 85. 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. 86. "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". 87. 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 88. "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. 89. The Founder's Choice: Stupid & Unlucky or Lucky & Smart? Given a choice between lucky and smart vs unlucky and stupid, which one should you pick as a founder? 90. 'Time is the Most Valuable Resource': Michael Skoblov, CEO of BITLEVEX Startup interview with Micheal Skoblov, founder and CEO of BITLEVEX. 91. 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. 92. “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. 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. 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. 95. Startup Interviews: Josh Aziz of TransferWise What's your background, and what are you working on? 96. 25 Startup Tips From 25 Venture Backed Founders A collection of insider tips from our "How I Raised It" podcast 97. 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. 98. 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 ;) 99. 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. 100. #FoundersConnect: Abdul Hassan, CEO & Founder of Mono, Backed by Ycombinator #FoundersConnect: Abdul Hassan, CEO & Founder of Mono, Backed by Ycombinator 101. 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. 102. 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. 103. 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. 104. 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. 105. "Python is eating the software development world right now" An Interview with Talk Python to Me Podcast founder, Michael Kennedy. 106. 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. 107. 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 108. Startup Interview with Shachar Tal, Loginno Co-Founder Hackernoon's startup interview with Shachar Tal, Loginno's co-founder. 109. 479 Founder Interviews Later: Here are 15 Sure-Fire Acquisition Channels This is a post that took almost 240+ hours to research. 110. "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. 111. 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. 112. 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. 113. Startup Interview with Brady Harris, CEO, Dwolla, Inc. Dwolla, Inc. is an Iowa-based fintech company helping innovative organizations digitally transform their payments. 114. 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. 115. BeyondBoard AR: The Origin Story of a Tehran Startup of the Year Nominee AR Bulletin Boards: T 116. 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. 117. 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. 118. "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." 119. 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. 120. 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. 121. 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. 122. 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. 123. 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. 124. "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? 125. 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 :) 126. 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. 127. 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. 128. Tips for Building in Public as A Founder From Europe Eu How building in public helped the growth of my startup. 129. 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 130. 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. 131. 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. 132. 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. 133. 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. 134. Adadot Founder Alex on Building a Analytics Tool and being Nominated For #Noonies 2022 I’m Alex and I’m the Founder at Adadot. 135. 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. 136. 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? 137. Founder Interviews: Michael Reitblat of Forter Forter is the leading provider in e-commerce fraud prevention, protecting $130B in digital transactions annually. 138. How to go From Idea to MVP Simple steps to get an idea off the ground and start building momentum. 139. 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. 140. Founder Interviews: Satyam Vaghani of Nutanix What's your background, and what are you working on? 141. 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. 142. 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? 143. 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. 144. Entrepreneurship Or Compulsive Gambling? The risk, reward and excitement of starting up a new company from scratch as an entrepreneur has been glorified by many but doesn't sound like gambling?t 145. 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. 146. Admitad ConvertSocial CEO Speaks Social Media, #Noonies'22 Nomination, and Running Her Organization I’m Ksana Liapkova and I’m Head of Admitad ConvertSocial. 147. How To Run a Tight Fundraising Process Why you have to own your process from end-to-end 148. 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 149. Andros Wong's Wonder is Providing DAOs with Technical Infrastructure Wonder has one key concept and it is that “the future is collaborative” 150. 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. 151. "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. 152. Founders Interviews: Stephen Cavey and Peter Duthie of Ground Labs 153. 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) 154. 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. 155. 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. 156. 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. 157. 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. 158. Startup Lessons: Customer Discovery is Invaluable 159. 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. 160. 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. 161. 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 162. 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. 163. "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). 164. 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. 165. The Power of PR for Web3 Startups Alyona Karpinskaya is the founder of PRBA, a PR agency providing PR support for blockchain projects. 166. 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. 167. 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. 168. 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. 169. 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. 170. 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. 171. Founder Interviews: Joe Mahavuthivanij of Mythic Markets 172. Eight Tongue in Cheek Founder Resolutions That Will Definitely Work in 2023 My startup founder resolutions for 2023 that will make you cry LOL 173. Twitter without Jack: WTF?! Jack Dorser is leaving Twitter. WHY? And, More Importantly, WHY NOW?! 174. 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 175. 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. 176. #MyStartInTech: Interview With Guim Gonzalez, Founder & CEO of Xatet Technologies The tech workforce in the US is not growing at an optimal pace. The number of schools offering computer science is not enough which is impacting the access of computer science to young women and students from marginalized communities. 177. 9 Things I‘ve Learned About Running a Startup Almost 2 years ago, we launched Meddy out of a class project at college. We faced our fair share of challenges from lawsuits to team conflicts to engineering issues etc. 178. 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. 179. 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. 180. 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. 181. 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. 182. 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 183. 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. 184. 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. 185. "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. 186. WTF is P-Hacking in Startups? Science has a problem. 187. 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 188. 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. 189. "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 190. 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. 191. "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. 192. 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. 193. 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? 194. 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. 195. 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. 196. 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 197. 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. 198. 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 Thank you for checking out the 198 most read stories about Founder Stories on HackerNoon. to find the most read stories about any technology. Visit the /Learn Repo