Product The One Tool Startups Need to Brainstorm, Test and Win At the heart of the Lean Startup movement, the Business Model Canvas can help early stage startups carve out a successful model.
Fundraising How Crowd-Funding Is Changing Everything and What That Means for Your Startup As crowd-funding becomes more popular, startups have more choices for financing than ever. Here's how to navigate this new landscape.
PR & Marketing Positioning Your Startup is Vital — Here’s How to Nail It Arielle Jackson has experience crafting marketing campaigns at Google, Facebook and Square. This is her messaging toolbox.
Management Power Up Your Team with Nonviolent Communication Principles Ann Mehl and Jerry Colonna coach startups to communicate more clearly. These are the quick tips they've seen make a huge impact.
Engineering What I Learned As Pandora’s First Data Scientist Gordon Rios was Pandora's first official data scientist. Today, he's seen how a healthy, productive data team is grown and operates.
People & Culture Employee Onboarding at Startups Is Broken – Here’s How to Fix It Carly Guthrie has helped onboard new employees in startup offices and crowded restaurants. Here's what she learned from hard-won experience.
Management Annual Planning is Killing Your Growth – Try This Plan Instead The need to plan a year ahead can cripple fast-changing startups. Instead, here's a system to think long-term with short-term agility.
Product This Is How You Get People to Trust Your Product Startups can't succeed without the trust of their customers. Here, Urbansitter CEO Lynn Perkins shares how to bake trust into your product.
People & Culture How to Make Engineering Interns Effective for Your Startup Startup Sift Science relies on its interns to hit its goals. Here's how it designed its program to produce incredible and effective engineers.
People & Culture 7 Tactics to Get the Most Out of Your Startup's Advisors Many entrepreneurs don't make the most out of their advising relationships. Get more done by deepening these connections.
Product WhatsApp Used This Pricing Strategy to Win and You Can Too While WhatsApp solved a real problem, their understanding of the Penny Gap may have been their shrewdest product move of all.
Management Here’s Why Founders Should Care about Happiness After 24 years climbing the corporate ladder, Scott Crabtree now focuses on data-driven approaches to what makes people happy at work.
