Thoughts on Tech Startups and Venture Capital
Hiring is an essential and really difficult component of company building that often gets neglected in early-stage startups. That’s because hiring is not as glamorous as building product, acquiring customers or doing sales. Yet hiring is absolutely essential because it is the people you hire who build products, drive marketing and sales, and generally get…
Metrics or KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) are essential for driving and understanding growth of an early-stage startup. What isn’t measured can’t be improved, and startups that aren’t growing are not likely to survive. We have written extensively about these topics before: Intro to Startup Metrics Funnels for Startups Whats is the Magic Moment for your…
Read more How to set up a KPI Dashboard for your Pre-seed and Seed Stage Startup
Earlier this week, on the USA’s birthday, I sent a brief email to Techstars NYC founders. I got a pretty amazing response, and decided to publish the email on this blog verbatim with the hope that you will also find it helpful. Here it is: Hey founders! Today is the birthday of this amazing country…
There will be a ton written today about the future. I truly, honestly do not know what is going to happen, and so much is not in my, or any of our, control. I don’t want to waste pixels sharing with you how I feel, because probably many of you feel the same. Instead, I…
Read more Dear Founders, I Commit to Double my Support for YOU and YOUR Startups
We are delighted to introduce 15 Startups that are finishing our Summer 2016 Program today. As with our previous classes, this was a diverse group of founders solving a wide range of problems. In addition to 6 teams from NYC we had teams from Rochester, Atlanta, San Francisco, two teams from Philadelphia, a team from UK,…
Read more Meet 15 Startups from Techstars NYC Summer 2016 Program
I rarely post product reviews on this blog, but today I am going to make an exception. Sailo (Techstars ’15) makes it easy to rent a boat. Today they rolled out a visual calculator that helps people decide when it makes sense to rent a boat vs. to buy it. This project has been going on…
Read more Amazing, in-depth Boat Rent vs Buy Calculator from Sailo
In this post we are talking to Cem Kozinoglu, co-founder and CEO of Slash, Techstars ’15 company from New York City. 1. What is Slash in 140 characters? Slash is a mobile search engine built right inside your keyboard, so you don’t ever have to leave your conversation to find and share information. 2. Why…
Read more Q&A with Slash – mobile search engine inside your keyboard
In this post we are talking to Orkun Atik, co-founder and CEO of Mona, Techstars ’15 company from Seattle. 1. What is Mona in 140 characters? Mona is an artificial intelligence based personal shopping assistant in your pocket. Just like an expert in-store assistant that knows you really well. 2. Why did you start the…
Read more Q&A with Mona – A.I. based personal shopping assistant
In this post we are talking to Adrian Gradinaru, co-founder and CEO of Sailo, Techstars ’15 company from New York City. 1. What is Sailo in 140 characters? Sailo is an online boat rental marketplace that makes renting a boat seamless, accessible and personal by connecting renters to boat owners and captains. 2. Why did…
In this post we are talking to Danielle Cohen-Shohet, co-founder and CEO of Gloss Genius, Techstars ’15 company from New York City. 1. What is GlossGenius in 140 characters? GlossGenius is a smart, automated personal assistant that helps beauty professionals manage and grow their businesses. 2. Why did you start the company? I’m a beauty…
Read more Q&A with GlossGenius – automated assistant for beauty professionals
