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Starting Up

How to Sell Your Startup: The Complete Guide to Running an M&A Process as a Founder

As a repeat founder, Daniel Debow has successfully sold three different startups. He reveals his no-nonsense playbook for other startup founders on how to run an M&A process from top to bottom.

Starting Up

The Startup Happiness Formula — This 3X Founder Shares His Approach to Figuring Out What to Build Next

Repeat founder Waseem Daher, co-founder and CEO of Pilot, has founded three startups with the same group of co-founders. He pays particular attention to Pilot’s first year — including validating the idea, choosing an ICP, and outlining the product roadmap for a company that can go the distance.

Product

After 15 Years as a Product Leader, CEO and Now VC, Here’s the Advice I Always Share with Future Founders

As he makes the transition from operator to investor, Todd Jackson looks back on his career at Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Dropbox (as well as his own chapter as a startup founder) to offer tactical takeaways and frameworks for company builders and product leaders alike.

Starting Up

The Inside Story of How This Startup Turned a 216-Word Pitch Email into a $2.6 Billion Acquisition

Looker went from a single customer to more than 1700, from a small, scrappy team in Santa Cruz to a 700-person company spanning eight offices around the globe. Now on the heels of its acquisition by Google, co-founders Lloyd Tabb and Ben Porterfield, CEO Frank Bien, and first investor Bill Trenchard

Management

One Founder, Both Sides of the M&A Table — What All Startups Can Learn from His Experience

Jeff Seibert sold two startups back-to-back, and now regularly advises Twitter on acquisition deals from the inside. Here's what all founders need to know about this process.

Management

How This Founder Turned Slow Burn Rate into a Big Exit

Location Labs' founder provides a template for a low-burn strategy that strengthened his company while extending its runway.

Management

What Everyone Should Know About How Talent is Bought and Sold

Mike Brown, corporate development veteran from Facebook and Twitter, explains how to win the talent acquisition process.

Management

Shooting for an IPO? Take These Steps Now Before It's Too Late

Glenn Solomon, partner at GGV Capital shares the ingredients that make for a good IPO and disasters to avoid along the way.

Product

This 23-Year-Old Built and Sold His Startup While in School - Here’s How He Did It

In 2014, Dan Shipper sold his company and graduated from college in the same month. These are the 3 tactics he says made it possible.