It’s super, super lonely to be a founder with Pascal Finette (Singularity University)
If only 1 in 10 startups makes it, then 9 out of every 10 founders you meet are probably failing. The visceral toll of this intimate downfall is...
Category: Go-to-market
Tools, templates, and been-to-market learnings
Why Does Technical Recruiting Suck So Much? with Aline Lerner (interviewing.io)
If you’re a founder or manager hiring engineers, you’ve probably been there… Struggling to find the right talent, dealing with an unending...
Security for Startups in the Age of the Weekly Leak with Tony Gauda (ThinAir)
As leaks & hacks mount, security remains an elusive state for startups. And as Tech moves more of our life online, the startups that facilitate...
The Difference between Technology & Product with Linden Tibbets (IFTTT)
In the Valley few will admit to just building Technology — everyone wants to think they are building a Product, something that has some design...
No English, but a Few Friends & a Lot of Talent: Moving to Silicon Valley as a Foreign Founder with Kazuki Ohta (Treasure Data)
Five years ago Kazuki Ohta didn’t speak English, yet it was obvious to him that his startup had to happen in the US. He and his co-founders...
Starting up in an AI-first world with Jeremy Howard (fast.ai)
Artificial Intelligence naturally favors companies that can wield large armies of PhDs, gigantic GPU clusters, and massive datasets, so it’s...
Simple rules to take over the world with Michelle Zatlyn (Cloudflare)
How does one go from friends & family using a prototype, to a global software behemoth used around the world by hundreds of millions of people?...
Successful open-source companies don’t open-source much software with Mårten Mickos (HackerOne)
Open-source seems to be the uncontested standard for software startups. Yet investors are leery of investing in the OSS business models of...
Riding Platform Shifts with David Helgason (Unity)
The founder of Unity recounts the platform shifts their video game engine survived & even thrived on, from PC to Consoles, Flash games, Mobile and...
What a Seed Investor Looks For with Mike Miller (Liquid 2 Ventures)
Mike Miller is a Partner at Liquid 2 Ventures, a seed-stage firm started by hall of fame quarterback Joe Montana. They specialize in early-stage...