After 13 years as CEO and Founder of Brandwatch, Giles Palmer reflects on what he would have done differently to grow his company. These reflections come on the heels of …
The Secrets to SaaS Startup Success with Dave Lambert
Dave Lambert grew up in Colorado and moved to the Bay Area to attend Stanford. Right after college he started a computer hardware company which he ran for a decade. …
Wattpad’s Allen Lau on Founding a Company with Global Ambitions
Wattpad was started by two immigrants, Ivan Yuen and Allen Lau, in Toronto, which is known to be the most diverse city in the world. As CEO & co-founder Allen …
How to Turn a Sales Presentation into a Conversation
“My belief is a presentation should be a conversation, and the dominant force in that conversation is not what to say — it’s what to ask.” This is Greg Winston’s strategy …
Should You Outsource Your Product Development?
According to Alvaro Chacon, founder and CEO of the creative and technical digital agency Stateside, developing a long-term product development plan is important from the start. He recommends founders ask …
Pitch Practice With Jackson Square Ventures’ Victor Echevarria
As a founder, it’s your job to know all the ways your startup could potentially fail. And if you believe you have all your bases covered, founder-turned-investor Victor Echevarria encourages …
Leading Product Strategy into a $230M Acquisition
As co-founder of Telesign, Stacy Stubblefield recalls that the startup journey was “painful” at first. But along the 15-year path from a small Los Angeles-based incubator to an eventual acquisition …
Why Ryan Bennett Hates SMART Goals (And What He Recommends Instead)
“I hate SMART goals,” Ryan Bennett, founder of The Intentional Day, a company that equips people to be more intentional with their lives, businesses, and teams. “SMART goals don’t work …
How An In-Person Networking App Tripled Its Users During the Pandemic
In 2019, the networking app, Plain Sight, raised $1M in pre-seed funding. Plain Sight is a social networking platform that takes an unbiased approach to connecting like-minded people together virtually …
Awesense’s Mischa Steiner on Being in the Business of Saving the Planet
Mischa Steiner remembers hearing a question posed by Peter Thiel which became a mantra for him: What is something you believe to be true, that no one else believes? For …
Process to Product: Using Tech to Full Advantage with Dave Renz
Dave Renz began his career working for a large company, but found his true passion to be startups. However, that time at an enterprise level company proved to be invaluable …
How Andy Bowers Transformed the Podcasting World
Andy Bowers is an audio journalist and podcast pioneer. He founded Slate Podcasts in 2005 and, in 2015, co-founded the podcast services company Megaphone, which sold to Spotify in 2020. …
The Product/Market Fit Reality Check with John Corcoran
Founder, product designer and CRO consultant John Corcoran has spent 15 years working on, then leading product teams, conducting market and user research. Among his accomplishments, as head of product …
Pitching Your Enterprise Software Startup with Lightspeed’s Nnamdi Iregbulem
A self-taught programmer turned venture capitalist, Nnamdi Iregbulem, who specializes in enterprise software, loves to dive into the guts of what makes a product work. Parsing out the technical details …
Is Your Startup Venture-Scale?
According to B2B investor Arjun Chopra, not every startup is venture-scale. He explains what makes a venture-scale startup and why a solid founder-market fit is so important. “We’re in the …
