283 Stories To Learn About Founders

Let's learn about via these 283 free stories. They are ordered by most time reading created on HackerNoon. Visit the to find the most read stories about any technology. Founders /Learn Repo Where founders share what they learn on the go. Read founder-related content: everything from challenges, success stories, leadership tips, to experiments. 1. Top Ten Startup Ecosystems in the World 2019: Flat Earth Ahead We skipped last year, but this year SparkLabs Group is back with our fourth rankings and report of the Top Ten Startup Ecosystems in the World. 2. 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. 3. 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. 4. Startup 101: From Idea to Business Model We all from time to time come across an idea for a Startup. A company that can be a million or billion or maybe trillion-dollar worth. A company that can be next Tesla or Amazon, but sadly, 99.99999% of us don’t take the next step. That idea remains just a fragment of our memory. 5. 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. 6. 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. 7. Story behind the Feelin App Feelin | Share what you feel 8. 5 Low-Investment Business Ideas You Can Start Online Entrepreneurship definitely is one of the most misconceived terminologies of the era. It seems like a mountain of tasks to start a business. When we think of all the time, money, and risks involved, it’ just seems so inaccessible to a regular man or woman. 9. Zoom's Nine Year Path to Overnight Success Zoom has been in news a lot lately. It has gone from being an enterprise solution to a household name pretty fast. 10. LLC vs. Corporation: What’s the Best Structure for Your Startup? Source: Zuza Gałczyńska, Unsplash When starting your own business, it may be challenging to choose between an LLC and a Corporation. Here is some information that may make the decision a little less taxing. 11. Founder Interviews: Artem Petakov of Noom What's Your Background, and How Did That Lead You to Your Current Role? 12. 11 Non-Technical Startup Founders Who Built Great Tech Products It might be surprising to some, but even non-technical startup founders have been behind great tech products like Tinder and AirBnB without the usual background 13. How Didactic's Move to Crowdfunding Signals Opportunity for All Didactic's crowdfunding will change the crowdfunding space. 14. [Startup Founder Interview] 10 Questions for Every Startup Founder Startup founders, here's how to get featured on HackerNoon! This startup founder interview template is based on David Smooke’s ten founder questions. 15. How to Hack Awareness for Your Startup — Without Content Marketing Startups usually focus on building their product first, and don’t even try to generate leads or interest until an MVP is ready. Some will just launch on ProductHunt hoping for some lead flow. But in the best case, they will get eyeballs for two days, and then no more leads come in. And building a lead flow is not that easy. 16. FourWeekMBA Founder Gennaro Cuofano On Heuristic Decision Making Gennaro Cuofano (Italy) writes about digital business models, platforms, blockchain business models, and new ways of doing business, all the while managing the growth of a high-tech startup and a small sales team. In this interview: Decentralization, Scaling, and Building Your Own Platform. 17. Going From Idea to Client in 6 Weeks [Here's What We Did] In January 2020, we met with about 45 companies. This enabled us to refine our vision (3 pivots in that month), understand our go-to-market, and start to build a list of potential clients. Once we felt confident about the product, we entered into full implementation mode. 18. I Helped Build 5 Companies before 34 and This is The #1 Mistake First time Founders Make The debate was deadlocked. Three members of my team at Kanary—the platform I’d built for brands to buy digital ad space—agreed with me, and three didn’t. It was 2013, and I’d spent the last year building Kanary as the company’s founder and CEO. 19. How I started my IoT Company A biological marvel, the human itself known as homo sapiens. In the Latin language, it stands for a wise man. A wise man that survived about 200,000 years of evolution and extinction. There are many perspectives towards its survival and today I would like to share my perspective, slightly vague but different. There is a concept of what drives you that has become popular within the last decade. Certain presumptions about the driving force are based upon raw emotional aspects such as passion and rage. I find to myself that these aspects are reactions to our stubbornness to keep on going on but the negative aspect is that these reactions are short-lived and eventually man settles with peace. I would like to share a certain experience in a short period of my life that has produced results beyond my expectations. It is a small story of how I created my IoT Device converted into a product and made a company out of it. 20. "When You’re Humble and Have Humility - You Rise to the Top" Michael Gaizutis is the Founder of RNO1 – Experience Design Agency for Tech & Web3 Brands of the Future. 21. Challenges, Benefits and How Businesses Can Adopt Blockchain The blockchain is a distributed ledger that records transactions in a permanent and verifiable way. 22. 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. 23. Todays 5 Ideas: 31.08.2020 A text editor where Pac-Man will start eating the text whenever you press backspace. 24. While Investors Scour for Homeruns, Founders Should Prioritize Getting on Base If investors only know how to spot short-term, moonshot yields, is it possible that the overwhelming majority of successful startups get overlooked? 25. Airtable: 26 Firms Offering Non-Dilutive Funding Options to Founders Raise money without giving up a piece of your company 26. #FoundersConnect: How Erika Brodnock, Founder of Kami, Uses Tech to Improve the Lives of Families Peace speaks with Erika Brodnock, Founder of Kami app. 27. "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. 28. #FoundersConnect: Interview with Michael 'Trojan' Okoh - Co-founder and CTO, ThePeer 22-year old Founder of ThePeer, Michael Trojan Okoh, shares his story with me. 29. Han Solo — my journey from Google to founding Kalo Why I left Google to found an AI startup funded by Techstars and Peter Thiel. 30. 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. 31. Insights From the Co-Founder of Genopets: Building a Blockchain-Powered Gaming Platform Join us as we sit down with Jay, the Co-Founder of Genopets, as he shares his journey in building a blockchain-powered gaming platform and the insights he gaine 32. Discover the 'Cheat Codes' for the Difficult 'Game' of Giving Care If the game is unbeatable, frustration takes over and the game is tossed aside. 33. Thrilled to be Recognized as a Trending Startup in Jaipur, India Emizentech is recognized as one of the trending startups in Jaipur India in 2022 by Hackernoon. 34. Mozilla Summer Startup Studio and MVP Lab TLDR: See mozilla.org/builders for more details regarding our summer programs! 35. How to Find and Message Investors on LinkedIn Here's how to look for investors on LinkedIn, and what should be in the first email to get interested in your project. 36. How I Quit My Job to Start My Online Business I quit my job. I'm now unemployed. It feels great to finally be able to write this blog post. 37. 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. 38. Meet the Writer: HackerNoon Contributor Zaheer Dodhia, CEO and Brand Hacker Let's make the business world beautiful with brand designs. 39. 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. 40. Seth Flora on Entrepreneurship, HackerNoon, and His Least Favorite Thing About the Internet Seth Flora is the owner of LEO Digital Marketing. In his spare time, he helps founders create business plans, form strategies, and more. 41. A PSA On Being the Average Of The 5 People You Spend The Most Time With I am pretty sure you’ve heard the saying that you are the average of the 5 people surrounding you, right? I have something to tell you that it is terrifying: It is bullshit, because it's worse. 42. 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 43. The Attention Economy is Worth Billions of Dollars The average consumer’s attention is now worth billions of dollars because that’s how much companies spend on their user acquisition efforts. 44. How a First Time CTO Can Choose the Right Techstack for Their Startup If you are a developer who is still in school or freshly (drop) out of the college or you just have a couple of years of corporate experience and have decided to take on the entrepreneurial journey as a tech-(co)founder / CTO of a startup, this series will help you understand various aspects and the role you will have to play as a technology leader for the success of your startup. 45. 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 ;) 46. 4 Tips SaaS Founders can use to Optimize their Sales Funnel This article will show you 4 tactics for optimizing your SaaS sales funnel 47. Escape the Digital Grind: How Wellness Retreats Offer a Refreshing Break A story on wellness retreats and their benefits in today's digital age. How technology takes a toll on us and what to do about it. 48. 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. 49. "As a founder, I am looking for risk-takers" #Noonies2021 I am scared that more and more people are captivated by networked systems (and their tricks) that push them to move faster but not to become better thinkers. 50. 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. 51. How Perfectionism Helped Me and Worked Against Me As a kid I always wanted to be the best at what I did: school, sports, games, you name it. I remember playing cards with friends and if I lost and somebody laughed, I would get very upset and disappointed. 52. 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. 53. 5 Reasons Why You Should Do Competitive Analysis Before Building A Product 5 reasons why you should do competitive analysis before building a product ? Using competitive analysis, startup founders can get a head on in product. 54. 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 55. Startup Interviews: Josh Aziz of TransferWise What's your background, and what are you working on? 56. "Don't Listen To Other People", Interview with Leia Ruseva Leia Ruseva from India has been nominated for a 2020 #Noonie in the Future Heroes and Technology categories. 57. Year in Review 2020: Profitable Side Project, Startup MVPs and more My process in building things that can invent opportunities for our business and career 58. 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. 59. The Zen of Building Financial Models: 9 Tips for Startup Founders 9 tips to improve your financial modeling game as a founder. 60. Founder Interviews: Rousseau Kazi of Threads What's your background? 61. Delivering Zero-Fee Trading Through Sheer Determination Anyone familiar with our project, Digitex Futures, will know that it’s been a long and eventful journey to get here. But we’ve stayed the course. Even during the worst bear market imaginable when many other projects had to throw in the towel, we’ve managed to survive. 62. 4 Reasons Why SaaS Will Benefit Your Business Big Time Let’s admit it. Typical software is old-school in the tech industry now. Companies find subscription-based services more comfy these days. Are you still toying 63. 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. 64. How to Create a Habit Tracker in Notion Why Even Track Your Habits? 65. The Unseen Areas Augur Your Future Failure It is 1943 and you are Head of the United States Eighth Air Force. Your mission is to destroy Germany's ability to wage war and free up the skies for the Allied Forces. The problem is that your Bombers are being zapped out of the sky like mosquitos drawn into the fire in a summery night. 66. 7 Things Tech Entrepreneurs Should Know Before Starting a Business To start your own business or a startup you don’t need to have a degree in business specialization or business experience. All you need is to know how business works and do proper business planning. 67. Richard Stallman: Everything You Need to Know About Him Sarah Mei goes over Richard Stallman. 68. Introducing S.A.M.: The Self-leadership Framework TL;DR: A self-leader does everything that a leader should do, but for herself. She plans, motivates, listens, and cares for herself. She uses the S.A.M. framework to put her efforts into perspective by focussing on Skills, Attitude, and Mindfulness as the core of her self-leadership practice. 69. How We're Helping Black Founders Succeed with Launch Like a Mogul Growing up and entering adulthood post-college, I always knew that I wanted to be in a position to help the Black community succeed and break barriers. 70. DeFi Today: In the Words of Builders in the Space It might just be a sign of the times, and it definitely feels like so much has been said about DeFi already. 71. Making the Leap to Solopreneur It was a big, scary decision to make—going from a conventional 9-to-5 desk job working in operations of a small company, to launching my own digital business where I work as a content manager and writer. 72. Fortuitapps Founder on Applying Imagination to Solving Problems And Noonies 2022 Nomination Hey HackerNoon Readers! I’m Nicolas and I’m the founder of Fortuitapps. 73. Five Tips for Applying to YC 2021 Tips and resources for applying to Y Combinator 74. The Food Truck: An Old Business Idea Worth Exploring? Food trucks have been around for quite some time now, an idea sprung forth from an older necessity-driven idea, the chuckwagon. It is a simple proposition, really: instead of the public going to a restaurant or diner to eat, the food comes to them. One could consider it the older cousin of straight-to-your-door food delivery. 75. This is How I Won Pioneer, A Fully Remote Accelerator This is a story about how I won ‘Pioneer’ and what I learned during this program. Pioneer is a fully remote accelerator and it’s a community where entrepreneurs/indie makers help each other improve their own businesses. 76. 5 Great Tools To Create an MVP Without Coding [Bonus Included] How to build a start-up or product MVP without coding 77. Behind the startup: Interview with Alexander Busarov on Fighting Counterfeiting in China In this interview we speak with Alex Busarov the co-founder of Taelpay about Taelpay ecosystem a blockchain application developed by the team while operating in China. Tael consists of over 50,000 users in 500 cities, hundreds of products protected with NFC chips and blockchain, all in cooperation with a long list of participating companies like Rakuten, Nestlé, New Zealand Cherry Corp,and many more. The Tael ecosystem is anchored by the Tael token which acts as a reward, loyalty, and marketing incentive for participants in the ecosystem. Now lets delve straight into the interview! 78. How to Approach Strategic Planning When the Sky is Falling Can you remember when you used to gather in person with your team to define your roadmap and reassess your company’s collective priorities? Every quarter, our team at Pillar VC convenes for a strategic planning session to decide how we’ll invest our time and energy in the months ahead; last week, we held this meeting for the first time over Zoom. While we’ve only been working remotely for a few weeks, it feels like the world around us has changed at lightning speed. 79. Unlock the Secret to Startup Success by Mastering the Explore-Exploit Loop Startups need to strike a balance between seeking new opportunities and maximizing the existing ones. 80. What to Know Before Joining an Accelerator Starting a business is hard and requires making tough decisions. More than that, most startups struggle to find the necessary investment. This is why many startup founders seek to join an accelerator that will make the initial investment and provide quality mentor support. 81. #FoundersConnect: Abdul Hassan, CEO & Founder of Mono, Backed by Ycombinator #FoundersConnect: Abdul Hassan, CEO & Founder of Mono, Backed by Ycombinator 82. How Brazil’s Newly Elected Government Will Affect Its Bustling Startup Ecosystem With a new political wind blowing through Brazil, we need to ask: What impact might Lula's election have on the buzzing startup ecosystem? 83. What I Learn When I Failed a Project Project "Carpool" 84. 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. 85. State of Hacker Noon 2019-2020 Photo Credit, Giphy.com/HackerNoon, where we have 1.7M impressions since creating our account in October. 86. Introducing Notion to Entrepreneurs, Founders, and Startup Executives This long-form article is an informal introduction to Notion for entrepreneurs, founders and startup executives. It covers the basics and explains what makes this company truly special. It’s a 17 minute read full of film and pop culture references because why not. Also, this is my first blog post on the internet. 87. How I learned Elixir and Launched a Product in 60 days The concepts behind Erlang/OTP/Elixir make it a great fit for a tool like the one I was building 88. Perfecting The Art Of Investor Updates: How-to Guide And A Template Our investor update guide includes a template and best practices, including why you should send updates before you even have investors. 89. How Threads Raised A $10M+ Series A Led By Sequoia Capital Four fundraising tips from Rousseau Kazi of Threads.com 90. 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? 91. Andros Wong's Wonder is Providing DAOs with Technical Infrastructure Wonder has one key concept and it is that “the future is collaborative” 92. Founder Interviews: Max Krohn of Keybase What's your background, and what are you working on? 93. Founder Interviews: Michael Reitblat of Forter Forter is the leading provider in e-commerce fraud prevention, protecting $130B in digital transactions annually. 94. #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. 95. Carina Ayden On Being an Environmentalist Founder Building Resilient Products Carina Ayden, the founder of Unimaginable foods, shares her perspective on the sustainable lifestyle and becoming an environmentalist. 96. How to Filter Out Bad Startup Advice As a company founder, I’ve received my fair share of advice over the years. Some of it has been instrumental in helping me build my startup. Others, well, not so much. 97. Five Things I Would Have Done Differently I don’t have many regrets in my professional career. In fact, I have none. Regretting is useless and a waste of time. 98. Hiring Remote Tech Talent: Overcoming the Challenges, Maximizing the Benefits Levin shares his views on hiring remote tech talent, the benefits and challenges of remote hiring, and strategies for finding and retaining remote talent. 99. How Jay Wey Amassed Millions of Followers on TikTok while Maintaining a Full-Time Job In this Slogging thread, we talk to Jay Wey the Co-founder of Ubiik and social media influencer behind jayandsharon. 100. 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. 101. Finally Going Full Remote? Here's Everything You Need to Know First Remote work is booming largely because of the lockdown. But this way of working has been around for a long time - especially among knowledge workers. During the pandemic, a lot of companies tested remote working for the first time, and most of them do not plan to go back to the office even after the lockdown. However, some holes need to be patched and things taken care of before any founder jumps into remote working permanently. 102. How We Scored $125 MRR and 497 Followers Pre-launch Hey Hackernoon family! I havent contributed an article in a long time but I wanted to share how we grew our newsletter, Product Byte, to 497 subscribers and $150/mrr (6 paid members) before we even launched. 103. 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. 104. "The Abandonment of Clean Algos is the Suicide of Mainstream Social Media" - Minds CEO Bill Ottman Bill Ottman is the co-creator and CEO of Minds, a free and open source social network with crypto rewards. They continue to make waves as an alternative to the incumbent social network business model of surveillance capitalism. Bill has also been a guest on the Joe Rogan podcast. Today, he kindly took the time to answer some questions for Hacker Noon. 105. 'Digital Information is Easy to Manipulate': Göran Almgren, Co-founder Enigio Startup interview with Göran Almgren, co-founder, Enigio. 106. 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. 107. From Chemical Engineering to Content Marketing: Black-in-Tech Interview with Emmanuel Nwaka The Black in Tech Interview with Emmanuel Nwaka. 108. "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". 109. Books to Billions: How Sachin and Binny Bansal Built Flipkart to 100+ Million Customers It is hard to imagine that one small company can completely transform the way we shop. But that is exactly what Flipkart has done. In 2007, e-commerce was still considered a niche business and most Indians did their shopping offline. Internet was taking over the world and Steve Jobs had just launched the world’s first iPhone in 2007 which was about to disrupt the entire smartphone industry in the years to come. 110. 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. 111. All the Tools You Need to Emulate the Experience of Being in a Physical Office On managing remote teams and creating an atmosphere similar to your office: Recently, I did a webinar with TIE and fellow women founders on Managing remote teams. A lot of you asked for the extensive list of tools that I mentioned in the webinar. So, here it is! 112. 7 Reasons Why Your MVP may Never Launch 113. Marcus Cobb Overcame A Tornado (And A Pandemic) To Raise Capital From raising money outside of Silicon Valley to pivoting after hitting a fundraising wall, to dealing with tornados and pandemics - Jammber founder Marcus Cobb shares his top tips for startup founders. 114. How to Name Your Startup I’ve always found naming things to be particularly challenging. That is because a bad name is way worse than a good name is good - naming your car the “No-Go” (as the Chevy Nova was in Spanish) is far worse than a decent name like the Passat is good. Naming is, unfortunately, a negative sum game. 115. Ask Me How To Lose Your Company Without Losing Your Faith Was there a big risk trying a startup? Did you have any sort of security net to catch you if you fall? and other questions get answered 116. Virtual Assets, Charity, and Humanity in 2023 Philcoin is the world’s first philanthropic blockchain super dApp, says founder Jerry Lopez. 117. 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. 118. An Intro to D-Commerce with Geoffrey Frank Geoffrey Frank is the founder of Myntist, a startup that combines e-commerce and d-commerce platforms into a digital hybrid ecosystem. 119. Why Startups May Fail to Get Funding in 2022 If you want to start your business but don't know where to get capital, you need to find out who the investors are and why they are ready to sponsor startups. 120. 🎓 How I am Learning Sales as a Technical Founder As a first time founder embarking on my (intended to be a VC-backed) startup journey 🚀, I quickly realized there are a lot of skills that I need as a founder that I didn’t have. I was comfortable with talking to customers & product development due to my engineering background but I massively struggle with copywriting, marketing, and the most important one — Sales 💸. 121. The Unusual Strategy This Entrepreneur Used To Raise Most of His Round Before It Even Started A few years ago, Matthew Klein and his brother Andrew saw that the retail landscape was changing and that companies needed more agility than ever. 122. What The Non-Technical Entrepreneur Needs To Know About Tech You’re a non-technical entrepreneur and you have a business-driven vision for your startup. As an entrepreneur, you don’t need to be a technical expert. However, you do need to know the basic concepts because many tech decisions are business decisions. 123. 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. 124. How We Carved A Niche For An Rx Delivery Service Few years ago, I consulted for a small Rx delivery startup in HongKong where I focused on strategy, go-to-market and built out their product direction from the 125. Tips for Building in Public as A Founder From Europe Eu How building in public helped the growth of my startup. 126. 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. 127. Cash Rules Everything Around Me [Writing Prompts For Startup Founders] Are you a startup founder? Consider filling out these writing prompts so readers can get to know your company better, and it's a great way for others to learn. 128. "The most important thing for any ad is to know your audience," - says George Thomas McCormick George Thomas McCormick is the founder of SOAR: a full-funnel Facebook & Instagram marketing agency. SOAR's main offering is creating and running profitable Facebook and Instagram ad campaigns for its clients. 129. Fundraising: No One is Going to Do It For You My "Tough Love" Talk To Founders Who Are Struggling To Raise Capital 130. 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. 131. To Trust or Not To Trust? That is the Question Never Trusting Anybody, and the Impact it Had on Me 132. Why Should You Startup? myPluto helps small teams, young entrepreneurs and ,aspiring product managers to navigate the development of their first product in a structured manner. 133. 10 Reasons Why Startup Fails There are a number of prominent startup examples that have been very successful in the past few decades like Facebook, Instagram, and Airbnb among others. But from these stories of success, quite a number of failure stories are left untouched. According to an estimate 9 out of 10 startups end up failing. Entrepreneurs publish post mortem online and they are quite haunting. The reasons for failure may depend upon various factors like insufficient funding, incompetent team, and lack of motivation. I have compiled a list of 10 reasons which have been the cause of startup failures. 134. 6 Lessons From YC Startup School Delhi SMB Meetup #1 YC Startup School’s Delhi founders who work for SMBs met online to share the problems they were working on and what they learnt while building for SMBs. For the first meetup, we had mouve.app, restat.co, designforpeople.in, and Uplift Inc. 135. Top 5 Methods of Running an Effective Cryptocurrency Exchange Anti Danilevski, KickEX CEO and founder, talks about Top 5 Methods of Running an Effective Cryptocurrency Exchange based on his own experiences in the field. 136. A Conversation with Genesis Mining CEO Marco Streng Genesis Mining CEO Marco Streng studied mathematics at the Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich before co-founding Genesis Mining in 2013 and becoming a passionate advocate for blockchain technology and cryptocurrency. 137. A Founder's Lesson From A Bad Job Listing You don’t know, what you don’t know. Hold that phrase in mind as I explain why one of the worst job listings I’ve ever seen was so terrible. 138. 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-4 139. From Zero to Manic I am 36 years old and have long felt disconnected from the world. Not so much the natural world — that I’ve been lovingly drawn to and constantly in awe of as far back as I can remember. 140. The Future of No-Code: An Interview with Parker Thompson from No-Code Report 🚀 No-Code Report is a weekly no-code newsletter, built using no-code tools like Webflow, Airtable, and Zapier. Working at a no-code analytics firm, I wanted to learn about insights in the field more broadly, so I spoke with No-Code Report's founder, Parker Thompson, on the state of the industry and its future. 141. Startup CEOs: Here’s Good News You Can Include in Your 2020 Board Deck As you prepare for your board meetings, you might be struggling to find some good news to share with the board. Sure, it’s a mistake to go into a board meeting pretending everything is going well — board meetings are a valuable opportunity to share your startup’s challenges and get guidance from a panel of trusted advisors. 142. Adadot Founder Alex on Building a Analytics Tool and being Nominated For #Noonies 2022 I’m Alex and I’m the Founder at Adadot. 143. 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. 144. Startup Wrappers Can Be Insanely Valuable SaaS businesses (particularly ones for technical users) sometimes have to deal with a vocal outcry that their product “is just a wrapper around” something. The implication is that ‘a wrapper’ is inherently not valuable, and it’s impossible to build a great business around such a product. This logic is a product of lazy thinking and myopia; ‘wrappers’ can be insanely valuable. 145. "Have Faith, Be Open, Trust Yourself", Interview with Chris Castiglione You know that feeling when you work really hard on something for really long and it feels like nobody really notices? 146. How To Explore Your Startup Idea With ZERO Money A couple years ago I was teaching a small course at Stanford about Entrepreneurship and I remember the number one question was how to raise money. 147. Saving Cryptocurrency from Scammers: Interview with Crypto Vigilante I think the ICO run is past us. We will not see a crazy market like we did in 2017. Scammers are very sophisticated and are always coming up with new ways to scam. 148. How To Manage Your Business During Pandemic In this Pandemic, Businessman is losing so much money they know it. If your elementary business base on offline, then their barely any chance of making money however If your business on online, then you can make some money because the e-commerce websites are helping out of there are services. I know some startup company their primarily based on online. One of my close friends, he shares some cold facts, how he manages his business in this pandemic. 149. Pivot via Repositioning The restroom story 150. How Public Product Roadmap Help Us to Understand Our Users To what extent do you allow your users and customers guide your development process? This is a question we have grappled with over the last year and, frankly, continue to debate passionately at our morning pow wow. But, today is the first time we have shipped a purely user-requested feature and it feels like a significant milestone. 151. Using Efficient Knowledge Transfer to Increase Information's Half-Life: Remote Weekly #26 📝 Today, I want to talk to you about the life of information and how that fundamentally impacts remote working. 152. 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. 153. 5 Types Of Fear That Millions Of People Feel Fear of missing out 154. The Strong Game of Developer To Entrepreneur The title of CEO/Founder seems cool but it's all about burning our hands and heads by Hustling. It's not like a general race where once you run quick and finish before anyone else and win the game. To be honest, entrepreneurship is like slowly moving with high efforts for success. 155. 12 Product Design Principles While Working in Small Startups If you are aware of the values of carrying out the Product Design Process, then you are halfway through the success! 156. From Graduating College to Raising $1+ Million Dollars in 9 months I was studying Mechanical Engineering in my final year at college in the UK when I joined my roommate and his friend in building an app called Cluttr they started developing in the Summer of 2017. 157. A Letter of Encouragement to the Female Founders of the Future Surveys suggest that over a third of the world’s female entrepreneurs have experienced gender bias. Only about 6.4% companies have women CEOs. 158. Advice for Founders During Uncertain Times Having been in the VC business for 22 years now, we have had the misfortune of living through at least two major downturns. While each has its own unique characteristics, there are a few lessons that may be relevant in responding to the latest crisis. 159. Time Off Isn't An Issue: The Key Practices Helping Me Lead Remotely Right Now I’ll not deny it. I love being in a physical office with coworkers. I love being around people with the same objectives and challenges. It gives me strength and motivation. 160. 20 Questions for Yearly Employee Reviews After scouring the internet and tapping into whatever it is I've learned about building teams and leveling up the purpose of work, I came up with 20 questions for the Hacker Noon team to reflect on the year behind and improve for the year ahead. Maybe they can help your startup or team too? So, I'm publishing them here. 161. Interview with AnavClouds Founders: How To Build a Million Dollar Company The founders of AnavClouds Software are both Salesforce professionals, doing well in their own spheres of work. They happened to meet through a common friend of theirs and started working together for some time. As the volumes grew they decided over a cup of steaming coffee that it was the right time to start a venture of their own, in 2016. 162. Founders, Do You Have a Plan for the End of the World? Founders and CEOs have a lot of tasks and responsibilities. Coaching the team, becoming a mentor for newcomers, and preparing for the end of the world. 163. Success in Startupland Demands that You Stop Thinking and Start Doing I’m normally a pretty big thinker. I like to analyze decisions and thoughts all the way out in the future and plan for all of the various contingencies. What happens if x goes wrong and then I’m in situation y? How will that affect a, b, and c? And I continue down the rabbit hole until I can’t see the light anymore. 164. 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 165. 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. 166. How the Founder of “SaaS for Daycare” Raised a $4.2 For parents of toddlers and babies, finding the right daycare can be a huge challenge. Jessica Chang saw this as an opportunity. 167. Current Market Outlook: Insights for Seed Stage Founders This short briefing note is prepared for founders who are considering, or are in the process of raising seed capital. The last few weeks have seen a significant shift in terms of the fundraising atmosphere, and investors’ appetite for risk. 168. Introducing HanafundMe.com: the Crowdfunding Platform for Women Starting up business, if you are cash strapped, can be pretty tough. It is still workable, but the journey is longer. Having extra funds helps you sustain your business operations and makes it easier to scale for growth. 169. Build vs. Buy: The AI Martech Conundrum Lomit Patel, Chief Growth Officer at Tynker, provides an overview of the pros and cons when building or buying an AI martech solution to capitlise on growth. 170. Knowing When to Hard Pivot Might Be This Year's Most Valuable Skill In mid-May, we were just closing our seed round after an 8-week-long fundraising process. Two weeks later, we started to have concerns over our product and vision. After a full month of interviews and explorations, we understood we needed to hard pivot. This article is about how we came to understand the shortcomings of our vision, and why we eventually decided to pivot. We talk about how we handled it with all the stakeholders (investors and team) in this article. 171. Interview: BrainCo CEO on The Future of Brain Machine Interface Tech BrainCo is a tech company that is dedicated to developing Brain Machine Interface technology, and it is the first Chinese team chosen by Harvard Innovation Lab. Located in Somerville, MA, the company is adjacent to Harvard University and MIT. 172. Antoni Zolciak, Aleph Zero's COO & CMO, talks about creating a public blockchain Startup interview with Antoni Zolciak of Aleph Zero, a public blockchain with enhanced privacy features. We combine academic excellence with business know-how. 173. I Lost $400k ARR and Tested Positive for Covid-19 on The Same Day March 13, 2020. I’ll remember this day as Charcoal Grey Friday in honor of my Costco sweatpants (thanks mother-in-law) and it being the hardest day of my career at GrowthHit. 174. Looking at the Startup Ecosystem: Fundraising Market Map This map is a visual overview of every company that helps you get an investment for your startup, from pitch decks to captable management. 175. Breaking The Loop Of Trust While Dealing With Real-World-Data Between The Patients And Researchers In this interview, we spoke to the company’s Co-CEO and Co-Founder, Ashwin Rathod about its innovation. 176. 5 Most Important Tips Every Data Analyst Should Know The 5 things every data analyst should know and why it is not Python, nor SQL 177. 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 178. How Running a Venture Capital Firm is Similar to Playing Basketball Justin Caldbeck of Binary Capital explains similarities between basketball game and a venture capital firm. [179. When We Can Pitch Startups at Events Again, Take These Lessons With You](https://hackernoon.com/when-we-can-pitch-startups-at-events-again-take-these-lessons-with-you-in2jc3yio) Here I am, a twenty-year-old astrophysics student designing satellites to place in orbit around Mars and a self-starter entrepreneur longing to show my baby — nect MODEM — to the earth. I've had a few bumps on the road. Thankfully, I learned a few valuable lessons, and the experience of attending five conferences with my startup as my product made me reflect on a lot I'd like to share with other aspiring startup owners. 180. 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. 181. In Conversation with Stewart Kohl on What He Looks For in an Investment Stewart Kohl is Co-Chief Executive Officer of The Riverside Company, a global private equity firm based in Cleveland, Ohio with offices across North America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. The Riverside Company has more than $7 billion in assets under management and oversees a global portfolio of more than 80 companies. Prior to joining Riverside in 1993, Kohl served as vice president of Citicorp Venture Capital and COO of the National Cooperative Business Association in Washington, D.C 182. Overcoming Imposter Syndrome in the Technology Industry Hacker Noon Non-Technical Founder Podcast- Episode 53 Zack Hurley 183. Bernard Moon, 3x Noonies Nominee, Co-Founder of SparkLabs group AMA Bernard Moon is Venture Capitalist, Co-Founder of SparkLabs group and 3x Noonies nominee. 184. Interview With CEO of Industry 4.0 About Raising Funds During COVID-19 Believe it or not, the investment world is restructuring to cope with the economic implications of the COVID-19 pandemic. Even though some experts have predicted narratives that will hold sway over this sector, there is, however, no definite projections regarding the magnitude of these changes and how much it will affect Founders and investors. Due to these uncertainties, Venture Capitals, Angel Investors, and Founders might tweak existing fundraising mechanisms to withstand new challenges. 185. Founder Interviews: Francisco Homem de Mello of Qulture.Rocks 186. [Interview] How Technology Is Reshaping Transportation: Trends and Challenges Why will more people switch to cars as their choice of transportation? When will all vehicles become self-driving? I had the opportunity to sit down and talk about these issues in greater detail with Alexander Sapov, the CEO of GetTransfer.com, one of the biggest airport-to-city transfer providers. 187. Bootstrapping, Fundraising Or Both? How A Gritty Approach Helped Allie Magyar Raise Capital After years of running events for huge companies, Allie Magyar decided she was spending too much of her time hovering over a fax machine. 188. Top Startup Directories To Submit Your Business in 2021 Recently we decided to start trying harder to market our side project, Notifier.so - Get Notified when your business is mentioned on Reddit and more, and as part of that process we submitted it to a bunch of directory sites we found in an older article. 189. 11 Lessons I Learned as a Tech Founder I’ve been a full-time founder for almost a year but have been into startup culture for most of my professional career as a software engineer (~4 years). 190. How To Say "No" At Work Without Sounding Like A Jerk “No” is often equated with being mean but “no” isn’t about shutting projects and people down. Here's how to say no in a corporate setting without sounding rude. 191. Helping CEOs make Sense of the Modern IT 'Acronym Soup' The domain of enterprise software is littered with acronyms that may be intimidating even to seasoned managers. Things get even murkier for those seeking to develop their own mobile enterprise app and encountering design-specific terms. The fact that some of them are often used interchangeably also doesn’t help. So the best place to start figuring out these terms is to understand their similarities and differences and identify the areas where they overlap. 192. How To Write a Manifesto Marzee Labs has launched its Manifesto on its website two years ago. The decision of writing it and the whole process we went through to get there was pretty cool and we wanted to tell you all about it. It made sense to be a team effort, so we brainstormed our way through it on a sunny and hot summer Saturday in Setúbal, Portugal, home of our designers. 193. Meet a Simple API for PDF Docs PDF API, fill, generate and e-sign PDFs 194. From Small Failures to Big Wins: An Interview With Marco Calamassi on Mindset I'm a mindset geek, It all comes down to that in the end, whether it's failures or wins. In my constant chase for Mindset hacks, tips and stories I had the opportunity to talk to the Digital Entrepreneur Marco Calamassi, whose team develops social media brands and products for some of the biggest influencers. In this interview, I had a chance to ask a few questions regarding his journey, the struggles, the successes and the mindset needed. Here's what he had to say. 195. Why Indie Products Differentiation Is Important And How To Achieve It Analyzing how successful indie businesses are able to differentiate themselves. 196. Understanding the Intricacies of Growth Marketing for Lean Startups For most companies, growth marketing is the way of the future for leveraging data and agility to scale revenue and increase customer lifetime value. 197. ChatGPT Can Transform the Way Businesses Approach Customer Service Most organizations consider customer service an overhead while it is an opportunity. It allows you to drive continued value from the customer even after a sale. 198. 7 Startup Safety Considerations for New Businesses If you’re getting your startup up and running, then you know that it takes a lot of effort and time. It also takes a lot of resources. No matter the size of the business, you are investing resources in it, and we’re not just talking about financial resources. Startup owners are also prepared to invest their time, energy, and emotions in something they truly believe in. 199. Here's Why We Invested in Turing — The Future of CPG Formulation Iteration is the new innovation… 200. The 10 Most Inspirational Quotes by Miki Agrawal Miki Agrawal shares her most thoughtful and inspirational quotes about life, entrepreneurship, technology, and not letting the haters win. 201. 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 202. Founder Interviews: David Karandish of Jane.ai 203. 5 Business Lessons from IBM Surveyed CEOs for a Post-Pandemic World After the uncertainty of the year 2020, we have to admit: the new order came up from the chaos, and as a result, the business priorities were reconfigured too. 204. 2 or 3 Under 20ish Awards—Hacker Noon's #Noonies Nominees for 2019 Hacker Noon—where hackers start their afternoons, has partnered with Stream to present the first inaugural Noonies 2019: The Tech Industry's Greenest Awards. You can help Hacker Noon declare the best and worst of this year's tech scene by voting every day from today until August 16th! 205. Founder Interviews: Matt Creager of Manifold Matt is the co-founder & VP of Marketing and Developer Relations at Manifold, the cloud-native marketplace company. 206. How To Recruit, Train, and Retain Skilled UX Designers A “ready” UX designer is a rare encounter in the wild. Designers usually do know how to make things pretty – but when it comes to the product logic and interactions design, few feel at ease. The inevitable solution is to hire people with a relevant background and upgrade them to real UXers: host lectures, give homework, provide practice opportunities. 207. Founder Interviews: Jeremy Burton of Wonolo 208. 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. 209. How To Use OKRs For Your High-Growth Startup Airbyte, the open-source data integration platform, shares how they performed on their OKRs for Q1 2021, and what their new OKRs for Q2 2021 are. 210. What Is Bonjoro And How It Can Help You Make Money Off Cold Contacts He breaks down how one of his customers tapped into COLD leads (we’re talking 2-3 years old leads), and generated $16,000 dollars worth of brand-new business. 211. 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). 212. Roles Of Support Are The New Normal Are you being the best leader you can be? Is your leader effective? here are some useful tips on how to do better. 213. Promoted from Dev to Team Lead: 8 things they didn’t tell me I was 24 years old. A baby. 214. Top Reasons For Tech Startups Failure And What To Do To Avoid It The millennials are too tired of 9 to 5 jobs and a monotonous lifestyle for a decade now. They have a good skill set and corporate experience, which pushes, them to open startups with the knowledge gained from their work environment. But does everyone see success in venturing startups, and what are the difficulties they face to be consistent in their entrepreneurial dreams? Let us see the top 10 reasons for tech startups fail and how we can recover and be ready with measures to overcome the failures: 215. Lior Yaffe from Jelurida on How Covid-19 Uncovers the Flaws in Our Money System "What I see is how the pandemic is exposing the inefficiency and inequality of the existing fiat system. Governments are printing money to bailout those who recklessly spent it during the good years. Banks lending government-backed money to those who don't need it instead of helping businesses in distress." - Lior Yaffe, Co-Founder, Jelrurida 216. Bringing Dishonest Crypto Journalists Lies to Light - The Story of Danny De Hek and Sultan Kassam Bringing Dishonest Crypto Journalists Lies to Light - The Story of Danny De Hek and Sultan KassamBringing Dishonest Crypto Journalists Lies to Light - The Story 217. How a Bunch of Little Pitching Tweaks Helped This Founder Raise $4M For His Purchasing Software… Serial entrepreneur Andrew Hoag had a huge frustration. 218. Divide et Impera: Tips On Content Creation From a Full-Stack Founder When I'm working on any single project, I'm becoming bored pretty quickly. I'm sure that a lot of people will empathize with this feeling. When a project is fresh and new everything is interesting about it. However, when the newness is gone, and you're actually doing the day-to-day routine of just hardcore work, it can become pretty dull. 219. Testkube: K8s Native Testing Tool More background information on the Cloud Native Testing Tool, Testkube. 220. Interview with Hyunkeun Yoon, COO of Karaoke Blockchain Platform, SOMESING A self-starting entrepreneur with 13 years of experience in HR managing, Hyunkeun Yoon. SOMESING is another Blockchain project, which recently won at the Blockbattle Korea 2. 221. ‘It Is Never Too Late to Learn, Grow, and Inspire’: Viktor Kochetov, CEO of Kyrrex Startup interview with Viktor Kochetov, CEO of Kyrrex. 222. 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. 223. A Conversation With John McAfee From Underground London What a character. This interview began with Zoom breaking and we when we started a new Zoom call, McAfee pretended to talk without making sounds just to fuck with me. Then we hit record: 224. Reddit's Origin Story and Persistent Path to Product Market Fit Welcome to the first edition of Product Stories. The first product that I have chosen is Reddit — a company that thousands of startups have tried to emulate but always failed to do so. Let’s look at why that is and what’s so special about Reddit. 225. A Female CTO Shares Her Thorny Journey In the Male-Dominated Tech Industry Colette Wyatt is a Chief Technology Officer at Evolve, an award-winning UK-based software house with an R&D Centre in Ukraine. She's also a Co-Founder and COO of e-bate, a revolutionary platform for rebates management, which attracted £950,000 last year from Mercia Asset Management, the MEIF Proof of Concept & Early Stage Fund, and part of the Midlands Engine Investment Fund. 226. Founders and MMA Fighters are More Similar Than You Think What if startup founders learning mixed martial arts - or mixed martial arts fighters found a startup. Takeaways of traversed startup journey and sports. 227. $1.3M in Funding for Rural Colorado Founders via the Greater Colorado Pitch Series 2.0 This year, applicants to the Greater Colorado Pitch Series can apply for 4 different capital tracks and $1.3M in total investment is available. 228. When is The Right Time to Step Down as Your Startup's CEO? Here's why you can't and shouldn't be your startup's CEO forever. Eventually, if you're lucky, it'll come time to let someone else manage your baby. 229. NFT Adoption in Modern Companies: An Interview With Evinco Winery DAO Co-Founder, Joy Pathak A conversation with Joy Pathak, Evinco Winery DAO co-founder, about NFTs and how they are set to change the food and beverages industry. 230. Founder Interviews: Satyam Vaghani of Nutanix What's your background, and what are you working on? 231. The Systematic Guide to Finding a Co-Founder You’re going to spend more time with your co-founder than with your spouse. This is why finding the right one is the one activity you CANNOT afford to rush. If you’re truly passionate about founding a company, you have only two options: compromise or keep on looking. 232. You Owe Your Team Prompt Layoffs and a New Plan Right now, the start-up community is facing upheaval. Although shelter-in-place rules tend to affect some companies more than others and hopefully will be limited to the short-term, all of us will be in uncharted territory for the rest of the year, as we navigate chaotic capital markets and a possible recession. 233. The 10 Top Places in Europe for New Startups to Apply for Tax Breaks It’s been roughly two months now since the Coronavirus turned our lives upside down. From practising social distancing and getting used to a life confined within four walls. To constant washing of hands and wearing masks and other Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) just to buy a loaf of bread. All the while watching strangers, friends and loved ones getting sick, COVID-19 is truly something none of us saw coming — well besides Bill Gates. 234. Growing From $0 to $10 in Revenue in 24 Months I know what you’re thinking. “That title has to be a typo. No one could grow that fast!”. I’m here to tell you that if you work hard and pursue your dreams you too can make $10 in 2 years. 235. Journey with my startup so far The many pivots of building a startup from a UK Founder 236. Do You Have to Code to Be in Tech? Software Development is a route that’s proved to be very popular in the last couple of years in tech. From HTML & CSS webinars to Ruby on Rails meet ups, you can’t escape the hype. But what if coding isn’t for you? What if you want to solve problems in Tech without writing code, is there a career out there for you? 237. 10 Ukrainian Founders' Stories on Leading Web3 Businesses During the War and Bear Market Ten stories of Ukrainian founders on leading Web3 companies during the war and bear market: relocation, working under sirens, distress, and raising capital. 238. How To Pick The Best Tech Stack for your SaaS Startup Choosing the right set of frameworks, database, front-end tools, back-end tools to build a long lasting tech stack for your SaaS 239. 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. 240. Top Management Tips for Startup Founders Here are some top dos and don'ts for startup founders, alongside some management tips for startup founders from successful entrepreneurs. 241. How To Run a Tight Fundraising Process Why you have to own your process from end-to-end 242. Meet the World Bank Exec Turned Startup Founder Who Raised $3 Million for Her Vietnamese Coffee… While Debbie Wei Mullin was fundraising for her specialty Asian beverage company, Copper Cow Coffee, she encountered frequent skepticism about its appeal: “it’s a niche product.” 243. 2020 Founder Review: Product, Community and Challenges Year Highlights for TAIKAI's Product, Community and Challenges. 244. Founder Interviews: Joe Mahavuthivanij of Mythic Markets 245. 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 246. Top 7 Promising SaaS Entrepreneurs in 2021 You Should Not Miss The article gives you an idea of how the top SaaS companies made progress and ranked themselves in the top list. 247. 8 Things a Co-founder Can Start Doing When Others Are Busy With Product Development Find out what you need to do as a co-founder during product development when you have little to do but still need to contribute to the success of the startup. 248. 10 Things Every Beginner Indie Hacker Should Know 10 Lessons I learned after making $1K as an Indie Hacker 249. 5 Productivity Hacks for Solo Founders Let's be honest, starting a business can be challenging, but for many people (like me) - it's a lifelong dream. Although many people feel more comfortable starting a business with a co-founder - it's not always the best decision. 250. 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. 251. Brutal Facts: Most Artists Can't Draw Roy Simmons coined that phrase and I like it a lot. “Most artists can’t draw.” 252. The Best Way to Measure Real KPIs? - DON'T Add a Link to your Product How many people will click to check out the website shouldn't matter when you are trying to validate a product. 253. Why Digital Marketing Isn't Working for Your Tech Startup That are countless blog posts that extoll the benefits and power of digital marketing. There are even more that show you exactly how to do it. 254. Interview with Nils Thomsen, Founder and CEO of Lotto Nation With the lottery being the most widespread form of gambling across the world, I sought to understand this industry better. Nils Thomsen is the founder and CEO of Lotto Nation (LN). His experience in the gambling industry spans over two decades, with a special focus on international operations, strategic planning, and customer relations. 255. Ignore the Internet (and 3 More Lessons Learned Between $10 and $1,100) In July, my brother and I launched our first software product after nearly 2 years of working full-time on our business. We hit a big milestone that month and generated our first $10 in software revenue. 256. Doers Vs No Doers: An Analytical Approach To start with, this is a tricky topic, where I might find people in conflict with my perception but after all when isn’t conflict a promising act. Conflict by its meaning is a disagreement where one holds an entirely opposite perspective and surely does one defend it as if it was their very own life at stake. I think that is a beauty of it, perhaps lasting for a long time that is unexpected or usual. I would put it as my experience to suggest that I have seen people get excited and enthusiastic about doing something. It can be an idea or a project or anything that they either want to achieve in life or a common goal to which one puts an effort. 257. Opening a Bank Account is Still A Hurdle for Crypto Startups If you’re a crypto startup dealing with stubborn institutions, you’re not alone! 258. Pre-PMF Startup: How To Do It Right In the beginning of June 2020, we had enough cash to sustain ourselves for 2 years, and had decided to pivot. At the time, we weren’t sure if we needed to move away from our product, on which revenues were growing very slowly, or not. We spent 6 weeks in full exploration mode to identify what our next step was. 259. "Develop the Habit of Upgrading Yourself," Advises Muhammad Bilal Muhammad Bilal (Pakistan) is a 5x 2020 Noonie Nominee for contributions to the Entrepreneurship, Founders, IoT, Life, and Life Lessons tag categories on Hacker Noon. In this interview, Muhammad shares personal perspectives regarding self-awareness, problem solving, and stagnation. 260. How Founders Can Adapt to the New Normal The ongoing pandemic has impacted not only our lives but also the global economy. COVID-19 will stay with us for months to come and it is unlikely that our world will ever look the same. This is the time to adapt. 261. The Role of Change in a Pitch Deck Answering the "Why Now?" Question A successful pitch starts with a well-thought-out pitch deck. And the "Why now" section is arguably one of the most important aspects of that deck. 262. DIY Simple CEO Dalip Celbeqiri On Work and Motivation [Interview] I had the chance to talk to the Facebook Video Expert Dalip Celbeqiri who is the "go-to-person" when it comes to creative marketing. You can catch him behind the scenes, usually brainstorming and creating master plans for viral content. Dalip is one of the founders and CEO for the company Following Media Inc. His team runs the marketing for some of the biggest brands like “DIY Simple“. His team currently holds the 2nd place for “most views on a Facebook video” with more than 4.5 billion minutes viewed in a year; 100% organically. 263. My 17 Years of Tech Experience In A Few Lines I've been working in technology for the last 17 years, and I cannot help but admit that — as rewarding as this industry seems — it's a never-ending race with time, and the speed at which the disruptive becomes outdated is unparalleled. 264. 6 Lessons Learned Fundraising for Our Startup in Africa After the announcement and news on raising our first external round of capital, several budding African entrepreneurs have reached out to me through various social media channels asking, "Tesh, please could you share some tips on how you did it?" Reflecting upon the same and the numerous congratulatory messages that came streaming in this past week made me think about the struggle of fundraising, and why it is indeed a great milestone for entrepreneurs. As much as the capital we have raised ($350k) for our startup, MarketForce 360, is very 'small' - compared to some counterparts across the globe - I have come to learn that less than 0.5% of startups globally get funded by either angel investors or VC's (venture capitalists). In Africa, the statistics are worse! 265. Food Tech Stories: How These Guys Built A Multi-Billion Dollar Family Business Who doesn’t know Panda Express? It is a fast-food restaurant chain that offers American Chinese cuisine. With over 2,200 locations, it is a forward-runner in the Asian restaurant chain niche. The idea of Panda Express was born in the United States. First restaurants used to be located in shopping mall food courts, but the chain has been expanded since then. You can see Panda Express in universities, airports, military bases, amusement parks, and other places. 266. The Founders Survey Winners Are: Gmail, Mailchimp, Slack, Trello, Hubspot, Zoom and Custom Code As Startups, we have a habit of moving fast. But in our haste, did we pick the right tools for the job? 267. Surviving Coronavirus Pandemic: A Guide for Startups Yes, we’re witnessing a crisis unfolding. Not only people get gripped by the coronavirus fear. It’s like a stroke for most businesses — some will recover, some won’t. 268. 5 Steps to Build a SaaS Product That Gets Funded Roughly a decade ago I decided to move away from my corporate job in investment banking in London to pursue something I always knew I wanted: to become an entrepreneur. 269. What Is Risk Management And How To Integrate It Into SDLC: Best Explanation Ever This article describes the primary concepts associated with organizing and managing the system-related information security risk in organizations. 270. 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 271. 8 Legal Documents Every Business Startup Needs ‘Caution’ is not exactly a word we associate with budding entrepreneurs and founders. Many of whom thrive on passion, uncertainty, and taking calculated risks. But before you turn that spark of a great idea into a reality, it’s wise to pause and consider if you’ve covered all your legal bases. To set yourself up for optimal success, it’s critical that each new venture is built on a solid legal foundation so you’re ready and prepared for the challenges and curveballs. 272. If You Want To Achieve A Goal Show Up Prepared It is important to realize that we have the ability to manufacture our own fate when we want to. - Eric Haney, Delta Force operator 273. Why Are So Many Startups Built Now Only To Sell Later? Unsuccessful startups are all alike; every successful startup has succeeded in its own way. 274. Founders Interviews: Will Martino of Kadena 275. Being a Student Founder Ain't Easy Estimated Reading Time: 14 minutes 276. 20 Questions for Yearly Employee Reviews After scouring the internet and tapping into whatever is I've learned about building teams and leveling up the purpose of work, I came up with 20 questions for the Hacker Noon team to reflect on the year behind and improve for the year ahead. Maybe they can help your startup or team too? So, I'm publishing them here. 277. Food Tech Stories: How To Fail Food Delivery Startup Based on this story: Trackin: Solo Founding a +$167,000/Month Food Startup 278. We Can Take Responsibility by Building Products That Protect People There are lots of positives to take away from the ongoing DeFi renaissance. For one, the emergence of this concept has brought about truly liberating financial infrastructures designed to deploy user-centric solutions. With the help of DeFi, developers look to enable new paradigms in the financial sector, which hopes to strip away the input of intermediate service providers in banking processes. Fortunately, this unique approach to banking and related concepts has begun to catch the eye of industry participants. As such, it is no surprise that the DeFI landscape has attracted unprecedented coverage, with the assets locked in decentralized finance protocols registering exponential growth in just a short period. 279. "You Have to Have Privacy, But to What Scale and Under Whose Control?" - Adel de Meyer Recently I had a chance to chat with Adel de Meyer, entrepreneur and leader of DAPS coin, a fully anonymous staking coin and payment system. Her project recently published a new DAPS whitepaper and announced its web wallet. 280. Six Tips to Build Awareness for Your Tech Startup You have built a tech startup to provide an outstanding solution, but it is not necessary that all the people will understand your idea in the beginning. 281. 10 Things To Do Right Away Before Starting Your Product Journey We all have different roles to fulfill during a product’s journey. Some of us are heavily invested on the sales and marketing side while others consider the technical decisions as their day to day job. While segregation of work is important as well as useful for founders, there are a lot of things that all founders need to learn to make sure they are ahead on the curve as they take continuous decisions for the product and its growth. Here are 10 things to do right away as you start your product journey. 282. Building an API-Powered Platform On this episode. Jon Dahl, CEO of Mux, and Thierry Schellenbach, CEO of Stream, talk to Amy Tom about starting their API-powered platform. 283. The NodeJS Digital Transformation Guide for Non-Technical Founders When it comes to selecting the right back-end technology. It can be confusing to evaluate your project needs and a versatile fit for your back-end development. However, NodeJS can be the best fit for your product. Thus, hire NodeJS developers to build the best business solution. Some of the crucial factors include whether you should look for offshore or onshore hiring. Thank you for checking out the 283 most read stories about Founders on HackerNoon. to find the most read stories about any technology. Visit the /Learn Repo