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How Zapier Pulled Off Its One-and-Done Approach to Fundraising
Zapier CEO and Co-founder Wade Foster is a fundraising contrarian. But he doesn't think he should be. He shares how it's possible to approach financing as a boost — not a crutch — and ways to approach key business decisions early on to keep the itch to fundraise at bay.
From Burning Millions to Turning Profitable in Seven Months — How HotelTonight Did It
HotelTonight went from a monthly burn of $2.5 million to profitability — in just over two quarters. Now a year since that milestone, CEO and Co-founder Sam Shank shares the tactics and lessons that helped the company execute the impressive turnaround.
Fighting Factions: How Startups Can Scale Without Mutiny
Between them, eero's David Loftesness and BCG Digital Ventures' Alexander Grosse have held engineering leadership roles at Twitter, SoundCloud, Amazon/A9, issuu and Nokia. Throughout their careers, they’ve noted a silent force that can be particularly damaging to a fast-growing company: factions.
Your Database is Your Prison — Here’s How Expensify Broke Free
Startups can fall into dangerous defaults when it comes to database architecture. Expensify founder and CEO David Barrett shares how his company sidestepped these missteps and made its database architecture one of its competitive advantages.
Your Users Deserve Better — An Inside Look at Remind’s Customer Obsession
Remind's classroom communication app is used in more than half of all US public schools. It's because its co-founder Brett Kopf and team are unabashedly obsessed with their users. Here's how they build remarkable relationships with customers.
