You Don’t Have to be Trendy to be Successful—Interview with Kate Hill, Founder of Aeclectic Tarotby Emma McGowanThe startup world loves the next big thing and trends come and go faster than you can read the newest Tim Ferris blog post. But what happens when you ignore all the trends? Kate Hill of Aeclectic Tarot explains why her site looks like it's from the '90s -- and why it works.Continue
Customer Development 101: Finding & Attracting Your First Customersby Joe GarzaA company will only survive as long as it continues to have a strong customer base. So, how do you go about getting those critical first customers?Continue
Financial Modeling For Startups: The Spreadsheet That Made Us Profitableby CayaGet on top of your Financial Model and business budget to enable managers founders to make game-changing decisions. Continue
Why Entrepreneurs Thrive in Underserved Marketsby Mike KalisIn underserved markets, we get the best of everything. We hire the best talent, find the best investors, and work with terrific clients who genuinely appreciate what we do.Continue
Serverless: The Next Big Leap in Cloud Techby Ajo AbrahamVirtual machines powered the original revolution in the cloud. However, the Serverless revolution will be even bigger.Continue
Hardware is hard. So why does eero do it? — Interview with Nick Weaver, Co-Founder and CEOby Rafe NeedlemanIt might seem that the economics of making hardware are at odds with the cycle of easy money and fast startups, but there are still people who think that hardware is a good business because it is so difficult.Continue
Small Business Trend Predictions For 2017by John RamptonSince we’ve already entered a new year, I hope that you’ve been making your goals in preparing for 2017. Here 12 small business trend predictions that deserve your undivided attention.Continue
Airbnb Pitch Deck: Teardown and Redesignby CayaAirbnb's deck was incredibly successful at summarizing the company vision and the huge market opportunity they had before them. We’ve added all the original slides in this article along with a redesigned version using our Slidebean pitch deck templates, and we’ll be tearing down each one of the slides.Continue
The Age of Napoleons: Conquerers in Techby Oleg YefymovThe main difference between businesses born today versus those of yesteryear, is that it's very difficult to make a scalable business of shoe cleaning or running the local grocery store. Scalability in business is much more prevalent now.Continue