
Let's learn about Startup Advice via these 500 free blog posts. They are ordered by HackerNoon reader engagement data. Visit the Learn Repo or LearnRepo.com to find the most read blog posts about any technology. Because there just aren't enough people on the internet telling you how to run your business 1. A Handy Tool Kit for Choosing Your Startup Destination Explore the world of startup immigration programs and discover how to choose the best country for your business venture. 2. 5 Steps To Achieving Product Market Fit And The 40% Rule The guide introduces you to the smart way of finding product-market fit for your startup. It showcases 5 steps to achieve and measure product-market fit. 3. How I Turned a Family Hobby Into a Successful Business In this article, I’m sharing my experience of how I brought together a team and turned my family hobby into a successful EdTech product range. 4. Stop Building Your Product for Yourself: Why Most Early-Stage Startups Fail at Marketing I've watched 50 startups burn cash on marketing before talking to customers. Here's what actually works: The Mum Test, founder brand building, and hiring doers 5. How Backend-Driven UI Cuts Time to Market Discover how vital hacking Time to Market (TTM) is in mobile app success and explore the innovative approach of Backend-Driven UI (BD UI) to shorten TTM. 6. Here's What the Pros Don't Tell You About Clean and Scalable Startup Code After 5+ years as the first developer in a growing startup, here are some key lessons I would tell teams that are just starting out. 7. From Pre-Seed to Series A: Navigating the Key Stages of Product Development The article showcases best practices for product development from pre-seed to Series A rounds, and describes what to pay attention to in your startup. 8. 8 Factors To Pay Attention to When Pitching a Startup to an Investor The article explains 8 key factors that can help your startup get considered by investors, especially in the early stages. 9. The Role of Change in a Pitch Deck Answering the "Why Now?" Question A successful pitch starts with a well-thought-out pitch deck. And the "Why now" section is arguably one of the most important aspects of that deck. 10. The Ultimate Checklist for B2B SaaS Business Development Let’s take a closer look at the most important steps of B2B SaaS business development (early stage) 11. How to Manage a Product Backlog in a Fast-Growing B2B Startup In this article, I’d like to share my tips for working as a product manager in fast-growing startups. I’ll also explain how these tips could be used in B2B prod 12. 7 Ways CMOs Can Cut Costs While Boosting Growth and Efficiency CMOs can embrace the power of SEO and create content that connects with their target audience, reduces costs, and helps drive significant business growth. 13. How I Made $480,000 Through Web Development and Returned to SEO I’ve been in the SEO game since 2006, creating websites and earning from affiliate programs. 14. How to Build a Multi-Million Dollar Business from Scratch Without Investing in Marketing Anton Tkachev, the founder of Browsec VPN, explained how he built a successful business without relying on marketing investments. 15. Tall or Flat: Choosing the Right Model for Your Business and Yourself How to choose the right model for your business and yourself 16. How to Align Departments to Improve Efficiency: Tools, Techniques, and Approaches techniques and approaches for improving department interoperability, as well as share my experience connecting departments at a European big data startup. 17. A Step-By-Step Guide For Implementing OKRs In Your Scaling Startup An OKR has two parts: the objective, your goal, and the key results, what success looks like. 18. Bootstrapping a Startup: The Art of Building from Scratch Bootstrapping in the startup world refers to the process of starting a company with little capital, relying mostly on personal savings and revenue from the firs 19. How to Code an Escrow Smart Contract: The Secured Approach In this tutorial, you will learn how to code an Escrow smart contract step by step, you will also get to understand why it is important for you to learn. 20. Implementing an e-Archive in a Shared Service Center: Main Principles Document archiving is an often forgotten but important part of working in a shared service center. 21. How a Solo Developer Can Make $1,100,000 Per Month It's possible for a solo developer to build a profitable microstartup to pay the bills and live life on their own terms. 22. The Communication Habits That Help Startups Build Real Authority Learn the executive communication skills that build authority, inspire trust, and help leaders speak with confidence in any room. 23. How to Implement an Enterprise Information System on Your Own This article is for those who have decided to implement an enterprise information system and know for sure that they will gain more benefits using it. 24. Essential Problems at Key Stages of Information System Implementation and How to Resolve Them In this article, I’m going to share how to receive a return on your software investment as fast as possible through examples of others’ mistakes. 25. Considering Multiple Businesses Under a Single LLC? Here's What You Need to Know Considering running multiple businesses under one LLC? Learn what you need to know about legal and financial implications to make informed decisions. 26. Bani Singh’s Journey From Building Side-Projects To Starting Her First Company This story is a look into the transformation of a promising entrepreneur as well as the technological and social changes she is trying to make. 27. Digital Marketing Mistakes That Startups Should Avoid Digital marketing mistakes startups should avoid: Learn the importance of a robust strategy and five common errors in crafting effective marketing plans 28. Surviving a Skyfall: A Lead Engineer’s True Story A story of an impossible situation and the light at the end of the tunnel. 29. Got A Startup With An App? You Need AppLovin If you've got an app, here’s your primer on harnessing AppLovin to turbocharge your growth in ways you won’t uncover from a Google search. Or ChatGPT. 30. The Importance of Social Media Analytics Nowadays, brands have discovered that social media is an indispensable cog in their golden wheel of success. As such, the activities that take place on every social media platform needs to be kept in check by these brands to maximize profit. Social media analytics helps you keep tabs on the progress of your marketing strategy as well as the welfare of your clients and competitors. 31. Key Design Principles for Startups: Things You Must Prioritize Key Design principles that every startup must embed into its DNA from day one to build successful, intuitive and human-centred products 32. No Startup Has Ever Failed Because it Didn’t Have a Blog The case against content marketing, and how to do inbound marketing in the post-content age. 33. How to Build a Strong Brand Identity and Differentiate Your Startup in a Competitive Market Learn the secrets of building and differentiating your startup's brand identity to stand out in today's market. 34. Planning Your App’s International Expansion 6 steps that will bring your app to new horizons. 35. Essential Steps to Succeed with Your First Digital Product In this article, I’d like to share working ideas on how to successfully design a product when you are just starting in the digital market. 36. Navigating Compliance for Fintech Startups This is a guide for Fintechs looking to be compliant and up to date with a range of regulations, including security, data privacy, and chartered banking laws. 37. You Are Not Your Startup, Your Startup is Not You About the psychological trap founders fall into, merging their identity with their startup, and why maintaining objectivity is absolutely essential. 38. 🚀 Ultimate Startup Launch Checklist: 2020 Edition 🚀 Over the past few years, I've had the great chance to help some awesome SaaS startups with their digital marketing. 39. 7 Steps to a Winning Cloud Migration Strategy Cloud computing has revolutionized IT since the 2000’s, and this revolution is far from over. Formerly, organizations would host their data on-premise as that was the only option available, but with the advancement in technology, and fast-changing business demands, cloud-based solutions started turning out to be a more flexible and powerful option for organizations. There is a mass migration underway to adopt cloud infrastructure and avoid the hassles and operational costs of managing infrastructure in-house. 40. Why Israel Has Become the Startup Nation A look at how and why Israel is building itself up to be the startup nation 41. Hiring Is a Bloody Funnel—The Whole World Is Discover the game-changing funnel approach to recruitment in this insightful guide. Learn from a seasoned CEO how to funnel top talent directly into your team. 42. COVID Happened And I Decided to Stop Gaming And Start Coding It's no secret that today, during a global pandemic unlike anything in well over a hundred years, many people are stuck at home and unable to work by no choice of their own. This massive inconvenience of feeling trapped and bored out of our minds for months within our own dwellings is leaving a lot of us with fluxes of emotions like restlessness, hopelessness, depression, and many other not-so-good things. 😷 On a positive note though, this is a great time to adopt some new mental flexibility skills. 43. Every Team is Made Up of These 4 Personality Types The PDIG framework covers the way people work together. 44. 10 Viral Loops that Drive Sustainable Product Growth 10 types of viral loops to fuel your product growth strategy 45. How to Hack Awareness for Your Startup — Without Content Marketing Startups usually focus on building their product first, and don’t even try to generate leads or interest until an MVP is ready. Some will just launch on ProductHunt hoping for some lead flow. But in the best case, they will get eyeballs for two days, and then no more leads come in. And building a lead flow is not that easy. 46. Venture Capital: What is the Price of Freedom? Entrepreneurs love being their own bosses. They want to build a company that fits the mission and vision that got them started in the first place. Following one’s passion is very satisfying and, if done right, can make a founder rich. But building a dream is demanding, with endless hours of work and no vacations. 47. Startup Interview with Henry Shapiro, Co-founder at Reclaim.ai Reclaim is an intelligent calendar assistant that enables you to block adaptive time for anything you care about. Vote for us for HackerNoon's SOTY! 48. Data-Driven Validation for Business Ideas: A Step-by-Step Guide Unlock the potential of data-driven validation for your side project. Discover how utilizing data insights drives informed decision-making and save some grief! 49. Pitching VCs? Use This Reverse Psychology Trick To Get Funded You’re planning a big adventure — skydiving or swimming with the sharks, for example — you’ve probably got the details mapped out. 50. 10 Promising Mobile Apps by Startups to Watch Out for in 2022 In 2021, the number of mobile app downloads reached 230 billion and is growing. Here are the 10 most promising start-ups apps that are rolling out in 2022. 51. Never Make Assumptions: 5 Golden Rules for Web App Development No matter if you are a startup company or a big enterprise, your app needs to be intuitive and customer-facing to win many hearts. However, designing a user-friendly web app for your business is not so easy. You need to be aware of the complete rules. 52. How to Create a “Killer Pitch Deck” How to build a 'Killer Deck' investment presentation. 53. How to Use Airtable as a CMS for a Startup Lear how you can speed up the process of product creation and how you can create an admin panel in the shortest possible time with Airtable 54. Why I Stopped Working for Free (And Why You Should Too) 55. Fix Your GTM Stack: Data-Driven Alignment Between Marketing and Sales In fast-scaling tech companies, misalignment between product, sales, and marketing isn’t just inconvenient — it’s expensive. 56. 5 Common DevOps Myths Debunked Debunk the most common misconception around DevOps and implement them in your organisation now! 57. Leveraging a Tech Business Model Framework for Business Success A framework to build a viable tech business model, technological model, and financial model. 58. Startup Stories: The 'Uber Success' of Uber How Uber became the world’s most valuable startup. 59. Lessons from Greek Mythology: How Hephaestus' Story Can Help You Build a Successful Tech Company Discover the inspiring story of Hephaestus, the Greek god of technology and blacksmiths, and how his journey provides valuable insights for creators. 60. Navigating the Complex World of CPOs in Startups: The "G.R.A.C.E.D" Framework CPOs of startups have the one-of-a-kind challenge of fostering the baby of the CEO, but they are not the co-founder and exist among other members of the leaders 61. The Tools You Need to Master Your Startup’s Metrics For many years I have been obsessing about startups and especially their management of metrics and KPIs. Just check my Medium profile and you’ll see :) It has led me to understand that knowing which KPIs to measure is not the first problem to tackle when you want to be a metrics-driven startup. 62. How We Iterated on 10 Ideas in a Month After a discussion (that lasted 30 seconds, as it was an obvious decision for us), we decided to share our complete journey with our new startup, Dataline, with as much transparency as possible. Learnings should be shared! Anybody can leverage our journey, and it’s also a good way for us to take a step back and understand what we did right and what we could improve upon. So here is our first story: how we iterated and sorted through 10 ideas in our first month of working on a new startup. 63. What Investors Want From AI Startups in 2025 AI in a pitch deck is now more red flag than green light. Here's 6 things investors are looking for in an AI startup in 2025. 64. What's your growth rate? Guys! During the YC Startup School I gradually started to implement different ideas to track primary metrics and I have involved my team to set OKR (Objectives and Key Results) and track their important metrics too. Eventually it has been structured on a dashboard using just google spreadsheets and formulas and charts. 65. How to Launch a Tech Startup and Raise Financing in the U.S. Starting a tech business in the U.S. can be a challenge and a privilege. While the market is large, the competition is intense and consumer standards are high. 66. To Remote Work or Not to Remote Work? That is the Question 🤔 Every once in a while people approach me and ask what it takes to start working remotely, so I figured I could turn my talk into a short post. 67. How To Raise Capital from Venture Funds Venture capitalists get pitched hundreds of times a year. And, even though countless articles have been written on the topic of how to present a startup to professional investors, entrepreneurs consistently fail to address check points needed by the investor to come to a decision. 68. Darwin's Hybrid Intelligence to Align AI & Human Goals for Startups & VCs This post is part of the Hacker Noon Shareholder Series, where we interview some of the super-investors who made the site you're on right now possible. 69. How Do You Build Software That Makes Money? Learn what systems really make the money. 70. San Diego is Quickly Becoming the Next Silicon Valley San Diego has long been hailed as the home of tech startups. Undeniably, it has become the hotspot for entrepreneurs looking to lay the next big thing's foundation. 71. What Category Does Your Startup Fall Under? Is it Viable? Finding Your Category: Are You Viable? 72. How We Applied Twice for the Same YCombinator Batch Back in September, we were iterating on many ideas. We had come up with a 2-day invalidation process to make sure that we were not wasting too much time on bad ideas. 73. Founders at Work: 150+ YCombinator Founders’ Stories Jessica Livingston's book "Founders at work" (2007, 32 stories) inspired thousands of founders to start their startups. 74. Uber to Netflix: The Basics of Billion Dollar Business Models Do you know what distinguishes Billion-dollar companies like Uber, Amazon, Netflix, Airbnb, etc. from other companies? Their effectively created & implemented business models. Business models that are flexible. Revenue generation models that react to the varying needs of customers. 75. 60+ Ideas to Help Your Startup Survive the Coronavirus Recession Assess your current state 76. Top 5 Tips to Pitch Your Way Into Startup Accelerators Wondering how to get your startup into top startup accelerators like Y-Combinator and Techstars? Here are some tips that will help your application stand out 77. Why the Lean Startup Model Might Be Holding Your Startup Back In this article, we will take a critical look at the Lean Startup model, its limitations, and why there might be better approaches for some startups. 78. Best Free Resources for Devs Bootstrapping Indie SaaS Startups in 2020 A breakdown of the best free resources I've found for developers bootstrapping their own indie SaaS businesses in 2020. 🔥 79. Success Has Nothing To Do With Luck Success is not about being lucky or born with a silver spoon in your mouth. 80. How to Build a Winning Team: Advice from Experienced Crypto Entrepreneurs for Newbies The launch of any project begins with three stages - market research, business plan development and team building. Building a team is the most challenging work for a founder as it deals with the most vulnerable material – human resources. For any project, an efficient and strong team is the key to success. Here are the main tips already successful entrepreneurs recommend to keep in mind when finding the right people to form the team. 81. How We Built a Social Media Publishing Tool Using Airtable + Make (formerly Integromat) For our startup social media publishing needs, we have created our own sweet little social media management tool using no-code tools like Make & Airtable 82. How Should an Early Stage Startup Structure Agreements and Expectations with Advisors? “Startup advisors are crucial to the success of your business.” 83. What The Non-Technical Entrepreneur Needs To Know About Tech You’re a non-technical entrepreneur and you have a business-driven vision for your startup. As an entrepreneur, you don’t need to be a technical expert. However, you do need to know the basic concepts because many tech decisions are business decisions. 84. 7 Content Loops to Accelerate Sustainable Product Growth Unlock sustainable product growth through 7 dynamic content loop strategies used by industry leaders. 85. I Built and Sold a Newsletter for 5 Figures - Here's How! My Journey Growing a Business in the Midst of A Pandemic 86. How I Went from a Failed Facebook Interview to Founding A Profitable Business in Under 12 Months Here is the story behind the creation of Pixelixe.com, an online graphic creation tool I started creating in my free time 12 months ago after an interview failure at Facebook. The project quickly reached profitability, discover below how all started. 87. How Not To Die In 2025: Advice From the Graveyard of Failed AI Startups 9 tips to keep your AI startup from going extinct next year. No ribbons, no sugar-coating, just hard truths that taste better with a stiff drink. 88. What Product Team Structure is Right for You? Product team goals and structure transforms together with the entire business. Follow these transformations through every stage of the company’s growth. 89. The Entrepreneurs' Guide to Better Sleep and Productivity Sleep is vital for the human body to function. So why does the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that more than one-third of professionals aren’ 90. Meet GoMining: Winner of the Startups of the Year, British Virgin Islands An interview with Mark Zalan, CEO of GoMining, winner of the HackerNoon Startups of the Year 2023 in the British Virgin Islands Misc, Oceania. 91. What Happened When I Hired an Accenture Exec as a Startup CEO Levi James discusses what happened when they hired an Accenture Executive as a CEO for one of his companies. 92. So You Want To Be On A Startup Board of Directors How to join a startup board of directors, from pre-seed to IPO. Understand the roles, positioning, and compensation at each stage. 93. Crypto Telegram Detox: The Only 7 Telegram Channels You Need in 2023 Get rid of useless telegram channels that shill crypto scams and ads. Here you'll find the list of 7 best telegram channels for crypto and web3. 94. How to Approach Strategic Planning When the Sky is Falling Can you remember when you used to gather in person with your team to define your roadmap and reassess your company’s collective priorities? Every quarter, our team at Pillar VC convenes for a strategic planning session to decide how we’ll invest our time and energy in the months ahead; last week, we held this meeting for the first time over Zoom. While we’ve only been working remotely for a few weeks, it feels like the world around us has changed at lightning speed. 95. How Cutting Cloud Costs Can Help Startup Fundraising One key way that startups can become more attractive to investors is by reducing their burn rate — the rate at which they are spending money. 96. Why Startups Should Start Small by Focusing on a Niche Market Instead of generating a startup idea from thin air, you can approach it from the market problem perspective. 97. Mastering the Moves: A Comprehensive Study on 4 Go-To-Market Strategies (Part I) Discover the secrets of successful GTM strategies with Product-Led Growth and Channel Sales in this insightful guide by Wilson Huang. 98. Management Strategies that Boost Employee Performance Employee productivity helps an organization achieve its goals. Happy employees are vital resources in leading a business in the right direction. 99. How to Market Your Startup as One Worth Joining Most startups have many good reasons to join them, but fail to communicate them well. I explain how to do that, and show how some Y Combinator co’s do it. 100. How AI Transforms the Fitness Industry Incorporating AI into fitness apps can still be confusing, especially if you haven’t worked with AI before. Learn how AI can be applied to the fitness industry. 101. The Pillars of a Successful Startup The ability to launch and scale a project efficiently is a practice mastered with experience and, in most cases, a whole portfolio of failures. 102. 5 Slack Apps for Startups to Save Time Spent on Repetitive Work I remember when Slack first came out. Me and my team of engineers were frustrated that the higher-ups were making us migrate away from IRC. Fast forward to 2020 and now I'm a member of 15 different workspaces. 103. “Something much broader than compensation drives us.”—Emil Eifrem, Neo4j Founder — Interview Emil first sketched the idea for the company on the back of a napkin during his flight to Mumbai in 2000. Today, the company is the world’s leading graph platform, powering mission-critical enterprise applications, including artificial intelligence, fraud detection, real-time recommendations, and master data. 104. GraphQL Can't REST While conventional wisdom states we should move to GraphQL entirely, for customer-facing APIs, we need REST. For our own frontends, GraphQL is the answer. 105. Going From Idea to Client in 6 Weeks [Here's What We Did] In January 2020, we met with about 45 companies. This enabled us to refine our vision (3 pivots in that month), understand our go-to-market, and start to build a list of potential clients. Once we felt confident about the product, we entered into full implementation mode. 106. How Developers Can earn a Side Income by Online Courses and Coaching As a mentor and author of a programming blog, I often receive queries like should programmers and software engineers create an alternative source of income?, or should developer create their own blog or website? 107. How To Set Up A Metaverse For Long-Term Success Actionable tips to set up a metaverse company or project in the web3 blockchain space from Jonathan Cohen, Founder and CEO of MetaNept 108. From Gossip Girl Cast To Building A Blockchain Marketplace: Nan Zhang, MyMarkit Inc. CEO Nan Zhang, CEO and Founder of MyMarkit Inc. shares the story behind building the first blockchain marketplace and the future of crypto and fintech industry. 109. Painkillers, Vitamins and Misunderstood Startup Lessons If you’re a startup founder, you may be short of many things : funding, sleep, the will to live. 110. The 4.5% Success Story: Lessons From 70+ Projects Most of those who succeed in the startup world often talk about the fact that it takes an average of ten failures to find the right idea. 111. How I Go From Idea to Revenue in 13 Steps How I take ideas and turn them into revenue in 13 steps. 112. Investing in A Disruptive Technology: A How-to Guide As a person eager to discover new trends and tech opportunities, I decided to dwell upon the idea of “disruptors” and explain why these technologies are the game-changers in different areas of our lives. 113. Launch Your Startup Idea in a Day Time is money, especially with startups. Check out how easy it can be to launch your startup idea using Render Unified Cloud 114. Startups Don't Need NDAs: 5 reasons Why Nobody Will Steal Your Idea Startups often ask to sign an NDA before sharing any metrics with VCs. Here are top five reasons why this is generally a bad idea. 115. Scaling Minds, Not Numbers: The Startup Marketing Hack You’re Not Using Do offline ads right, and you won't be chasing growth—you'll be writing it into existing. Here's how startups can hack the system with offline advertising. 116. 7 Steps I Kept Repeating Until I Hit $2M ARR I started in 2004, made an exit, fundraised many times, 2 top accelerators, and failed a lot. 117. A Female CTO Shares Her Thorny Journey In the Male-Dominated Tech Industry Colette Wyatt is a Chief Technology Officer at Evolve, an award-winning UK-based software house with an R&D Centre in Ukraine. She's also a Co-Founder and COO of e-bate, a revolutionary platform for rebates management, which attracted £950,000 last year from Mercia Asset Management, the MEIF Proof of Concept & Early Stage Fund, and part of the Midlands Engine Investment Fund. 118. Talks On Productivity: Evgeniya Malina - Head of Processes and Automation at Whizz Let me introduce Evgeniya Malina, Strategy, Operations, and Product Management professional with 8+ years of experience leading large-scale programs 119. Growing Trend: Anti-Procrastination Device Market Each of us happened to postpone important things for later, dragging out their implementation as much as possible, doing anything instead of them. Unable to explain to ourselves why we are doing this, we are tormented by guilty feelings because of the deadlines and the fact that again we let someone down. 120. Just Made my First Dollar With My SaaS After Quitting my Job Story about a aspiring SaaS founder who quit his job in Feb to build his own product. 121. 5 Storytelling Tips That Improve Pitching for Startups A very concise article with 5 tips for storytelling when fundraising for a startup or pitching at a competition. 122. Power of Sentry + Expo: Catch Bugs Before They Bite and Supercharge Your Startup's Success Catch bugs in your app and take realtime action for your startup's growth 123. What's Your Entrepreneur Persona? Want to know which type of entrepreneur you are? Check out this list of 7 personas! 124. The Importance of Business Communication Software in 2020 Business communication software is the beating heart of the world's most successful and enduring organizations. Gradually introducing itself into the workplace over the course of a few decades, this sort of technology has become more indispensable to our working lives than ever before. From Zoom, to Microsoft Teams, we're incredibly reliant on communications software to help us stay connected and maintain productivity on a day-to-day basis. 125. Startup Legal Due Diligence: A Brief Guide for Investors and Founders The guide centers on the legal aspects of due diligence (DD) and outlines the 10 most common mistakes. 126. How to Build a Quality AI-Based Mental Health Counseling App Because of the mental illness crisis that has worsened during the last ten years, digital solutions functioning on artificial intelligence offer hope for millions of people to improve their mental state, or at least to keep it balanced. Technology companies and scientific establishments have developed the applications ready to provide daily therapist sessions and support patients` treatment programs. 127. UX For Startup Founders: How to Grow Faster With Less Marketing Spend Are your sales coming too slowly? Maybe you’re spending some money on Marketing, just to realize that you are not getting a return on your investment… Ugh, that feeling of powerlessness is painful. Right? 128. Bootstrapping vs. Venture Capital: The Pros and Cons This thread explores both sides, the pros and cons, and what it takes to make either path a success. 129. AI Startup Financing: 6 Best Seed Funding Options in 2022 So you have a new cutting-edge AI product/service idea. 130. Why JavaScript Should Be Your Technology For Startups in 2022 Startups choose JavaScript as main technology in 2022 thanks to impressive number of frameworks, its libraries and third-party APIs integrations. 131. I Built a €500K Neobank for Immigrants—It Didn't Go As Planned I built and shut down a €500K neobank for immigrants in Portugal. Here's a post-mortem. 132. Fundraising In A Falling Market Might Be A Good Opportunity For Startups And Investors Raising capital is crucial for any startup, regardless of overarching market conditions. 133. Why Your Project Should Start With The Discovery Phase Does the discovery phase a Big Thing in business? 134. Fortune Cookies For The Fortune 500? Waymo Thinks So — But Should You? The new frontier in tech marketing: going guerrilla or going home? Big tech turns to ambient marketing, but should tech startups follow suit? 135. Everything I Learned About Generating Startup Ideas in My First 10 Years as a Founder This article is a compilation of everything that I learned about how to generate product ideas. It’s my my way of learning and it’s not a finished work I will update it as I learn more in my journey to great great products. 136. How We Structure the Discovery Phase If you think that a breakthrough idea, strict development deadlines, and marketing strategy are all you need to make your product hit the mark – think again. The reality is, on top of fierce competition and demanding customers, 9 out of 10 startups fail because their solution has no market fit. 137. Founders and MMA Fighters are More Similar Than You Think What if startup founders learning mixed martial arts - or mixed martial arts fighters found a startup. Takeaways of traversed startup journey and sports. 138. Fundraising: What You Should Know About VC I ventured into entrepreneurship, founding startups in the fields of robotics, Brain-Computer Interface (BCI), and Internet of Things (IoT). 139. 10 Steps to Build a High-Value Startup with $44k Free Credits 10 steps to build a high value start up with $44k free credits and the best tools out there [140. Go-Daddy Gone Wrong: What Happens to Your Domain if Your Co-Owner Dies?](https://hackernoon.com/thats-a-no-go-daddy-what-happens-to-your-domain-if-your-co-owner-dies-or-flies-off-the-handle) One day you receive a call from a mutual friend and hear unbelievable stories, when your friend is out of his mind, and harms himself, and others. 141. The Role of a Startup Founder: One Thing They Don’t Teach You in Business School Max Faldin, Founder and CEO of Silverbird, Talks about the Role of a Startup Founder 142. How to Plan and Build a Profitable Mobile App There are currently almost 10.000.000 mobile apps available in the leading app stores. 143. Kempus is What Facebook was Intended to Be An interview with a CEO you're about to hear a lot about. 144. 3 Business Lessons Learned from My Near-Failure Startup Experience Reflections and lessons learned by Rihards Piks, a successful entrepreneur who was the co-founder of Grafomap, a profitable e-commerce business selling maps. 145. Pitch Perfect: 7 Design Mistakes Startup Founders Make in Pitch Decks (Again and Again) How to make a good pitch deck for a startup to secure investors' attention by avoiding common design mistakes frequently made by startup founders 146. How I Created a Beer Money SaaS This is the story behind MatchKraft and how I created a software that gives me beer money. Beer money usaully refers to a small amount of money earned. 147. How to Launch a Successful Startup and Keep it Blooming: 25 Great Tips Learn to think critically about your ideas 148. 22 Best Tools to Use for Marketing Startups in 2022 Good advice on the useful tools in different marketing niches. Short description of tools that can be really useful for marketing startups 149. How to Not Fail Your Next Startup Over the past 7 years I have worked in large IT companies in the Russian Federation, EU, and in the USA. Here's what I wish I knew before I started each project 150. The Ultimate Guide to Angular for Non-Technical Founders In this guide, I’m going to give you in-depth knowledge of a very popular and widely used client-side framework called Angular. This guide intends to help founders of non-technical background who wish to learn the basic idea behind Angular. It will also help you make a decision if it’s the right choice for your upcoming project, and, subsequently what a front-end developer must know about Angular and how to hire angular developers in the current scenario. 151. Beyond Checklists: How to Add Outbound Sales to Your Product-Led Growth (PLG) Motion Product-led growth is not enough for you to dominate the market. Viral growth loops and self-serve can only get you so far. You need an outbound sales team. 152. What Does it Take to Be an Entrepreneur? Many of us are obsessed with the idea of creating something cool and being our own boss though we often forget to ask ourselves the tough questions. 153. 5 Things to Consider Before Joining a Startup Thinking of changing your career by stepping into the startup scene? Here are a few things to consider before joining a risky early-stage venture. 154. Dear Techies, Maybe It’s Time To Admit We’re a Little Over-Saturated Is the tech industry facing saturation and a slowdown in innovation? 155. Don't Have Time for the Things You Love? Here's How to Solve That The surefire way to ensure you always have time for the things you love doin. 156. Top Angular Admin Templates People reviewing admin templates usually think about what kind of intro they should start the article with. But let’s be honest, no one is ever interested in these. People just scroll down and go straight to the point. So this time we thought we’ll skip the intro at all. We won’t explain why and how exactly using admin panels can save you money, you can read about it here. 157. 'Smart people with bad ideas can always pivot.' —LA MP Mark Tung This post is part of the Hacker Noon Shareholder Series, where we interview some of the super-investors who made the site you're on right now possible. [158. "You Have to Distinguish a Startup From a New Business" says Paul O’Brien](https://hackernoon.com/you-have-to-distinguish-a-startup-from-a-new-business-says-paul-obrien-aa313yie) There are countless articles on the web that talk about what investors look for when funding your startup. Normally they all focus on similar things: 159. Lessons Learned From A Literal Billionaire The most important thing I learned from a billionaire I worked with, that you need to know. 160. Things I Wish I Knew Before Starting My 1st Startup I wasted at least 5 years building stuff nobody needed. 161. Upselling and Cross-selling: Boosting Tech Sales in a Changing Economy 162. Is Your Organization Safe from Common Cybersecurity Threats? Many companies simply aren't protected from threats online - here's the most common and a guide to what you need to do 163. Advice for Founders During Uncertain Times Having been in the VC business for 22 years now, we have had the misfortune of living through at least two major downturns. While each has its own unique characteristics, there are a few lessons that may be relevant in responding to the latest crisis. 164. 4 Business Lessons From the Failure of Wework - The 47 Billion Dollar ‘Tech’ Company 2019 was a rough year for the co-working space company WeWork. At the beginning of the year it was valued at a whopping 47 billion dollars, making it the fourth highest valued startup in the world and at the end it was valued at less than 8 billion dollars by its biggest investor. 165. Startup Interview with Blair Silverberg, Hum Capital CEO and Founder Hum Capital offers a single destination where companies can understand all of their financing options and be matched with pre-qualified investors. 166. Why Should You Startup? myPluto helps small teams, young entrepreneurs and ,aspiring product managers to navigate the development of their first product in a structured manner. 167. Are You Focusing on the Right Product Metrics? In this article, we'll delve into seven common mistakes that people often make when it comes to selecting and tracking product metrics. 168. Are Hard Tech Start-ups Better Than Easy Tech Start-ups? Hard tech start-ups are those that many perceive as nearly impossible to build. They require extensive time and resources to develop the initial product. 169. How to Choose Web Application Development Company for Your Startup Launching a startup is always about incredible ambitions and passion to your idea. You’re excited and inspired and expect your team to be dedicated for your idea as well. That’s why it’s not enough to find an ordinary web app development company that can provide you with a product. 170. 4 Strategic Design Practices to Future-Proof Your Startup in 2022 Apply these simple strategies to promote longevity and build success for your startup 171. HackerNoon and the Time We Took the 16 Personalities Test A simple test can help you learn so much about your team…and yourself. 172. How Remote R&D Helps Accelerate the Pace of Innovation Until the late 1970s, companies spent roughly the same amount of money on advertising as they did on research and development (R&D). Today, as shown by a Harvard Business Review study, they spend ten times more on R&D. 173. How to Get High-Quality Traffic to Your New Tech Startup's Website How to Get High-Quality Traffic to Your New Tech Startup's Website. 174. Mark Your Calendars, Bad Bots Are Coming for the Last Months of 2022 The sad reality for many online business websites and applications is that they are flooded by automated bad bots 175. Don't Sell Solutions: How Your Scrappy Startup Can Tell Stories That Resonate by Anne Szustek Talbot, VP of Content, BX3 176. 4 Tips for Building a Successful Business from Scratch in 2022 Four useful tips on starting a business from scratch, finding your purpose, and avoiding mistakes. 177. Why Your Startup Needs to Spend Money to Make Money Often in the startup world, you need to spend money to make money. My business partner, Roz Lemieux, and I raised our second round of funding, Series A, on the strength of our belief that we could expand the appeal of our product, Attentive.ly, to the private sector. 178. The Press Release is NOT Dead (Neither is the Funding Announcement) Is the press release dead? Is the funding announcement dead? A lot say so. But let's take a closer look together… 179. 3 Common Mistakes Young Startup Founders Make The 3 top mistakes and how to avoid them 180. How Kuda Bank Grew From Zero to Millions of Users Peace interviews Bradley Want, the VP of Growth at Kuda Bank. 181. The Biggest Challenges Leaders Are Going to Face in The Next 10 Years It seems like every morning I wake up and there is a brand new revolutionary technology or political movement creating massive ripples in the world. 182. 3 Ways To Make Sure Your Startup Isn’t Successful Startups that focus on the wrong priorities are likely to fail. 183. How to Reach $1M ARR in a Year: Maksim Kamaltdinov on Growth Hacks for SaaS-Startups Maksim Kamaltdinov is a serial entrepreneur with several projects behind his back. But the recent one became very successful even though the market seemed tricky. We sat down with Maksim and talked about his growth hacks. 184. The 10 Top Places in Europe for New Startups to Apply for Tax Breaks It’s been roughly two months now since the Coronavirus turned our lives upside down. From practising social distancing and getting used to a life confined within four walls. To constant washing of hands and wearing masks and other Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) just to buy a loaf of bread. All the while watching strangers, friends and loved ones getting sick, COVID-19 is truly something none of us saw coming — well besides Bill Gates. 185. Entrepreneurship Trends Happening in the Robotics Industry Here are some of the trends we’re seeing from entrepreneurs in the robotics space. 186. How Blogging is the Best Way to Build Audience and Grow Your Startup Find out how blogging can help founders quickly solve many marketing challenges and acquisitions by effectively creating content that can solve common problems. 187. How Startup Investors Evaluate Entrepreneurs When building your startup you can have a great idea and the perfect market conditions and still come up short. For both your startup and investors, execution is key. 188. How to Do a Successful Product Launch When You Have 0 Followers and $6 How I launched my project Chill Subs spending only $6 on a domain and gaining 3000 followers on my brand new Twitter/X account in the first 3 days. 189. Navigating Uncharted Waters: a Robotic Startup Journey Check out what it takes to build enterprise robots and how a corporate robotic department can spin off into a standalone robotic scale-up. 190. B2B Tech Startups That Ignore Multi-Cloud Restrict Their Customer Reach Opportunities The pitfalls of building a B2B solution on only one cloud platform is that the application design becomes rigid and makes it difficult to later extend it to support other cloud providers. 191. 5 Reasons to Invest in Analytics For Your Startup Now Data analytics are a startup's best friend, and here are five reasons why. 192. Why Startups May Fail to Get Funding in 2022 If you want to start your business but don't know where to get capital, you need to find out who the investors are and why they are ready to sponsor startups. 193. What the Data Science Hierarchy of Needs Says About Your AI Maturity Level Understanding your organization’s current level of AI adoption and readiness - your AI maturity level - is critical for putting together a plan to gradually pro 194. 10 Ways You Can Make Money Online From Your Home The idea of starting your own business from home is exciting. Although it requires time and a little investment, starting out isn't that difficult. 195. How to Revolutionize Your Startup Success in 2024 with AI Co-pilot Tools Revolutionize startup success in 2024 using PitchBob, an AI co-pilot tool for founders, enabling rapid task execution and personalized entrepreneurial guidance. 196. Don’t Fall Into A Startup Trap: An Almost Perfect Survival Guide Most startups fail because founders don’t pay attention to users. They always start with a brilliant idea that might be brilliant only to them. 197. Have You Ever Been Told Your Business Idea Sucks? How to know which feedback to listen to for your startup. 198. Top 5 Marketplace Business Models to Explore for Your Startup in 2023 The startups now provide quality services for their customers more quickly and efficiently. 199. Mistakes I Made While Building an EdTech Startup With 400K Active Users Back in 2017, I became a CEO of an EdTech startup. With no prior experience, I made mistakes almost from the very beginning. 200. Build a Startup from Scratch with No-Code Tools How to build a startup without learning to code 201. A Gread Idea Validation Method Used By Stripe Leading tech companies like Stripe are using this simple research method to validate their ideas and build products customers really need. 202. Why Does 'Startup Vision' Matter So Much? There are hundreds of things that could possibly go wrong when you start your own thing. It surely is in the startup stage right now, but there is a clear difference between it growing big and dying out after a year. That difference is - The Vision. 203. Cybersecurity Considerations for Employee Onboarding Is cybersecurity emphasized in your employee onboarding program? Here's what onboarding with a strong security foundation should look like. 204. The Three Questions Every Entrepreneur Should Ask Themself Naveen Jain | Asking All The Right Questions 205. Setting Up a Dedicated Distributed Team at a Fintech Startup [A How-To Guide] At the outset of its existence, a startup involves a limited number of people. Basically, it consists of cofounders, whose roles are rather tentative. Soon, however, if that startup succeeds, it requires other specialists for help—specialists whose qualifications are high enough that they can work efficiently in a startup-like atmosphere. 206. 4 Key Steps to Developing a Successful SaaS Product We'll cover everything from product ideation to marketing and sales to customer success. 207. How to get Funding for Your Startup If you are a startup looking for funding, it can be difficult to know where to begin with all the options available. 208. Step-by-step Guide to Growing a Bootstrap B2B Startup: Actual Tactics (Not Strategies) Today, I want to show you how to grow a bootstrap startup. There are pros and cons to this formula but bear with me. 209. 5 Essential SEO Tips You Need to Follow in 2023 SEO is just as viable as ever in 2023. Today, will discuss a few tips you can improve your search visibility and connect with your target audience. 210. How To Actually Benefit From An Accelerator As A Digital Tech Startup How to choose which accelerator to join, how to get the most out of it once you do, and what separates an accelerator success story from other startups. 211. I Thought Good Engineering Meant Writing Good Code. Now I Know Different At scale, good engineering means building with care, care for the product, for the system, and most of all, for the people behind it. 212. Top-5 lessons I learned during Apple Entrepreneur Camp Apple Entrepreneur Camp taught key lessons—app inclusivity, user-centered approach, product page optimization, app review preparation, and user rewards. 213. A Guide on Disaster Recovery for IT Systems Modern organizations need complex IT infrastructures to provide goods and services at the expected levels. Any malfunctioning component can have damning effects 214. Don't Give Us MVPs, We Want MJPs (Minimally enJoyable Products): An Analysis Minimally Viable Products are a myth or, if you prefer a mental model. Always wrong but sometimes useful. 215. How to Find X When Your Product + X = Success Have product? Want to not fail at product management? Quick, here are some tips! 216. 7 Startup Safety Considerations for New Businesses If you’re getting your startup up and running, then you know that it takes a lot of effort and time. It also takes a lot of resources. No matter the size of the business, you are investing resources in it, and we’re not just talking about financial resources. Startup owners are also prepared to invest their time, energy, and emotions in something they truly believe in. 217. VCs & Founders Note: ChatGPT/LLM Is a Huge Step Forward - Here's Why Key learning points for founders and VCs on implementing LLM AI. And a framework on how to do the same for your startup (or portfolio) 218. Don’t Wait For A Good Idea: The Netflix Origin Story Don’t Wait For A Good Idea 219. Use this Framework to Easily Scale Your Software Development Business How my friend scaled his software development business by using this 6-step project execution blueprint. 220. Exploring the CAP Theorem: The Ultimate Battle of Trade-Offs in Distributed Systems Consistency, availability, and partition tolerance are the three musketeers of distributed systems. They ensure that your system operates correctly. 221. A Path to a Successful IoT Startup There are so many industries that are flourishing today, but we’d say the most promising area is anything connected with the IoT — the Internet of Things. Why? Because IoT is taking over more and more areas of our lives, starting from the simple act of connecting your phone to your TV set. For this reason, let’s take a look at: 222. How to Tell a Product Story (and Get an Enthusiastic Response) Product storytelling is the buzzword most marketers are chasing, as a good product story has the potential to bring more sales and users and never fade away. 223. Leader's Speak : Joel Reymont, Lead Developer @ Stegos [Interview] I returned with a newfound conviction that I was exactly where I needed to be, and simply needed to define the values I am passionate to pursue. I grew up in the Soviet Union. While I am now removed from the days of government surveilling my every word and action, I've found that culture of surveillance replicated everywhere online. 224. The 3-Word Advice I Got From Paul Graham A short exchange with Paul Graham on when small ideas stop being niches and start becoming social infrastructure—and why growth rate is the clearest signal. 225. Developing a Cloud-Based App in 2023 Creating a cloud app for a business is easier than ever. Here is the complete guide to build cloud app in 2023. 226. 4 Reasons Why You Should Use Gatsby JS for Your Website Gatsby JS is a static site generator that is used to create high performance websites. Built on top of React, it weaves together some of the better parts of GraphQL, react-router and webpack for a brilliant developer experience. This means a much faster site, taking a lot less time to build! Perfect for users, business and developers. 227. From blueprint to construction : How to build a Startup The road to success is always under construction. And nine 9 out of 10 roads trying to merge onto it wind up with “Road closed” sign on them. 228. Common Mistakes Startup Owners Should Avoid When Designing a Product: Founder Interview What are common startup design mistakes and how to avoid them to achieve the best performance? Sergey Krasotin, an experienced entrepreneur, outlines some. 229. 5 Lessons from a Failed Startup Birthed Outside the Bay Area In 2015, we started Memoratic, an educational platform that aimed to solve a few of the complex problems of our educational system. By streamlining communication between educational institutions, teachers, parents, and students the platform tried to provide incentives to improve performance at the individual and organizational levels. 230. An Overview Of The Nocode Space You might have heard the term “nocode” somewhere on the internet in the last few months. New nocode tools are constantly emerging and more and more people are starting to become nocode makers. In a previous post, I outlined my story of how I became serial maker by going “nocode”. Today I want to give you an overview of the nocode space, with a list of some of the nocode tools I use myself. 231. Meet the Entrepreneur: Guy Melamed, CEO, Exberry Guy Melamed is the co-founder and CEO of Exberry, the exchange technology pioneer revolutionizing marketplaces. 232. Opening a Bank Account is Still A Hurdle for Crypto Startups If you’re a crypto startup dealing with stubborn institutions, you’re not alone! 233. 6 Important Factors That Influence the Strike Price of Stock Options In this article, we will study the concept and then outline some factors to consider when calculating the strike price. 234. Is SEO One Giant Scam of a Job? Those claiming to be an “SEO” probably provide little marketing value 235. Most Exciting Startup—Hacker Noon Award Nominees—#Noonies 2019 UPDATE 236. The Novice's Guide To Side-Hustles I don’t know about you but in my view, work culture seems to have taken a 360- degree turn since the time I got into the workforce in 2012. For years before that, I saw people stay in the same job for years. 237. 11 Best AI Website Builders for Small Business in 2023 Modern website builders can help you create fluid websites that can take your business online while looking crisp and beautiful. 238. Start a Tech Startup for Free with Google Cloud Platform Learn how to piece together Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services ($300 credit on signup) and other services to start your tech startup with this no-fuss guide. 239. Bye Bye Google: How I Botched My Company's Launch After Leaving I like to analyze my past work through the prism of evaluating my mistakes (I’m sure my therapist would have a field day with that one). I launched my first publicly available engineering project in early December and as George W. Bush once said, “Mistakes were made”. 240. How Will DAOs Impact the Future of Startups? Do you believe DAOs will be the evolution of early-stage startups? 241. 15 Email List Building Strategies for Your Startup Email marketing is the link that builds a relationship between you and your customers. It hardly matters what business you are operating; an email list acts as the most crucial part of an unbeaten market strategy. Using an email list, it becomes easy for you to share your business story, showcase your business products and boost your business, all the while turning your subscribers into your paying customers. What do you mean by the term Email List? 242. Learnings From My Open Source Startups' First 100k+ Visitors What is it though? 243. How to Run a Tech Business in 2023: 4 Tips From a Ukrainian Startup CEO Running a tech business in 2023 can be difficult. Here are four tips you can follow to develop your business this year. 244. 7 ‘Dud Tips’ for Companies Entering the US Market Andrew Grechkin, founder of KIDDIO, explains universal headaches as well as US-specific startup mistakes. 245. Why Tropicalization Often Fails in LatAm and What Needs to be Done for Success in Digital Products Tropicalization is a process by which a company adds local flavor to its product, giving it a more regional feel. Here we will discuss costly mistakes 246. The Noonification: Craig Wright is Satoshi Nakamoto (12/24/2023) 12/24/2023: Top 5 stories on the HackerNoon homepage! 247. Building a Strong Portfolio in the Early Stages of a Startup: Tips and Strategies A startup team may fail to deliver a product but should not fail to deliver a portfolio of value. 248. How I Saved $10,000 on Product Research with an AI Megaprompt Discover how I used AI and the Jobs To Be Done (JTBD) framework to save $10,000 on product research, automate insights, and build better product strategies. 249. Timing is Important for Startups and Product Launches Many great startups and products were launched too early to too late, impacting their potential for success and leaving them vulnerable to competitors. 250. How Color Psychology Impacts Branding While there is still much research to be done, color psychology has been used in fields such as marketing and design to help create appealing appealing products 251. KISS or Die: Why Senior Engineers Fail at Startups How senior engineers fail at startups: free infrastructure traps, custom code maintenance, and comfort choices. Four mental models to ship fast, not perfectly. 252. How to Generate New Software Startup Ideas Ideas are responsible for the progression and prosperity of humans, without them we would still be living in prehistoric times. People spend most of the day work, smartphones when we’re out and about, and tablets and PCs at home. Congratulations to the thousands of software companies that have already helped to make history. Numerous software ideas have been made for people to choose the one with benefits to them. 253. Mastering the Moves: A Comprehensive Study on the Four Key Go-To-Market Strategies (Part II) Dive deep into GTM strategies with Wilson Huang from ATMOSIScience. Uncover the nuances of Inside Sales and Field Sales for dynamic business growth. 254. Top 5 Challenges For Indie Hackers It's a tough lifestyle being a solo indie hacker. Here are some of the hardest parts. 255. Monetizing Intellectual Property: A Startup's Path to Revenue Generation The options for monetizing an IP can be daunting. Here are a few ways that startups can go about choosing the IP monetization that's right for them. 256. Soluno Co-Founders Alan Tuback And Doug Dagworthy Are Here To Set A New Standard For Legal Software Alan Tuback & Doug Dagworthy, co-founders Devlos Software and makers of Soluno, legal accounting share how they built a start-up with 100 years of experience. 257. Spain Has a Brain Drain and Talent Exodus Problem: How Can We Solve It? Spain has a brain drain issue. Here's how startups can help. 258. 5 Productivity Hacks to Get More Done as the Founder of a Startup As a founder of a startup, chances are that you have one thing constantly going on in your mind: getting more work done. 259. 10 Reasons Why Startup Fails There are a number of prominent startup examples that have been very successful in the past few decades like Facebook, Instagram, and Airbnb among others. But from these stories of success, quite a number of failure stories are left untouched. According to an estimate 9 out of 10 startups end up failing. Entrepreneurs publish post mortem online and they are quite haunting. The reasons for failure may depend upon various factors like insufficient funding, incompetent team, and lack of motivation. I have compiled a list of 10 reasons which have been the cause of startup failures. 260. How I Built a Successful Digital Mortgage Startup in Canada A fintech startup playbook by the CEO of Perch. 261. How To Rock a Tech Conference With $0 and No Prep Time Discover how Anywaypay turned a last-minute AI conference invite into a marketing triumph with a $1 bathroom billboard strategy. 262. 4 Core Principles of Pragmatic Engineering The following principles will save you time, money, energy, and increase the probability of your organization’s success. 263. What I Learned After Building 30 Startups in 20 Years Doing Consumer Apps. 2. Raising VC Money. 3. Hiring Too Early. 4. Ignoring SEO. 5. Ignoring Content Marketing. 6. Social Media Marketing. 264. The Hacker's Guide to Growth Marketing Sean Ellis (Dropbox’s first marketer) first coined the term “growth Hacker” to mean “creative, collaborative idea generation and problem-solving". 265. Reflection: Top 5 Tips to Bootstrap From $1.5K to $16K Monthly Revenue and Raise $400K My reflection on five key strategies that propelled our startup from bootstrapping to $16K monthly revenue and successful fundraising. 266. 'UTU Changes the Economics of Trust', says Jason Eisen, CEO UTU UTU CEO Jason shares the origin story of UTU in Nairobi and how its helping companies build digital trust with AI and blockchain. 267. 'F*ck It, It Can't Be That Hard to Code' says Melanie Marten of PRontheGO A PR pirate conquering growth hacking resources for creators while building an accessible waterslide park and organizing a sports film festival in Athens. 268. Why Data Governance is Vital for Data Management Both data governance and data management workflows are critical to ensuring the security and control of an organization’s most valuable asset-data. 269. How To Stay Human in the Digital Era: A Series of Fortunate Tips for Shaping the Next Generation World Wide Webers, it’s 2019 and the talk of town are topics that so many of us interact with every day: conversational marketing, behavioural science, machine learning, process automation, productivity tools, chatbots, algorithms, artificial intelligence, big data, deep learning, accelerating digital transformation, and so much more. 270. Realize The Mistakes on The Way to The Success Startups are unpredictable, but there are a few common mistakes that every product startup is doomed to make! What matters more, is how you react to them. 271. The Most Effective Way to Onboard a New Developer on Your Team A new employee’s career at your company can be determined, to a reasonable extent, by how well their onboarding goes. 272. A Good Product/Market-Fit Needs a Good Roadmap Tech products, whether digital features, products, or services, need to achieve product-market fit if they have any hope of succeeding. 273. Startups: Why You Shouldn't Be Afraid to Launch a Project in a Bear Market Despite the bear market startups should not turn off their projects in the crypto industry and Web 3.0. A few tips for projects on how to start in a bear market 274. What the New CHIP Standard Means for Smart Home Startups When most people hear the word “chip” in the context of a smart home, they immediately imagine the microchips at the heart of their smart devices. But whereas chips power the brains of an individual smart device, CHIP will power the brains of an entire smart home. CHIP will offer huge conveniences to consumers, but its openness may make it harder for hardware startups to build ecosystems and defend against inexpensive knock-offs. 275. 10 Things to Do After Your First Win—So It’s Not Your Last Your startup got its first win. Congrats. Now here's 10 things to do so you don't become a parody of your own pitch deck. 276. Founder’s Guide: How to Outsource Software Development in 2020 If you are running a startup or a tech business, outsourcing the execution of your product is a critical business decision. You can’t fail and there are many factors to consider to ensure you choose the right agency to outsource software development. This is part of the inherent risk whenever outsourcing anything that is not a commodity. 277. Startup Planning 101: How to Write Your Business Plan Want to know how to write a Startup Business Plan? We will take you through all the steps of creating a business plan and show you what to be aware of. 278. What is the Difference Between MVP and POC? In this article, we will look at definitions for MVPs and POCs and the circumstances in which to use them. 279. The 10 Principles of Good Business Design how to design a winning new business / venture / product / service, rather than merely ticking off tasks on a to-do list. 280. How to Recession-Proof Your Startup Right Now Stay one step ahead of the impending economic downturn with these smart tips to help keep your startup afloat in hard times. 281. 6 Main Reasons Why TechCrunch Won't Feature Your Startup - Part 1 Getting published on TechCrunch is like getting a golden ticket. But you have to learn from your mistakes before you get there. 282. 20 Instagram Growth Hacks You Can Use To 10x Your Audience This Year 📈 Building your Instagram account can be quite intimidating. 😧 283. How to Build an AI Startup That Can Survive the Coming Correction: 4 Different Strategies AI bubble is shaking valuations. Enduring startups build moats beyond models, reduce stack fragility, prove ROI, and think in years, not quarters. 284. Launching a Minimum Viable Product as a Non-Technical Founder How to Launch a Minimum Viable Product as a Non-Technical Founder 285. Six Tips to Build Awareness for Your Tech Startup You have built a tech startup to provide an outstanding solution, but it is not necessary that all the people will understand your idea in the beginning. 286. How to Create a Billion-Dollar Business on a Budget The lessons learned in business can make you happier, wealthier and give you more free time. 287. 3 reasons growth-focused tech companies need PR during a down economy Using PR during a down economy is essential for growth-minded tech companies 288. How CERN's Large Hadron Innovations Are Turned Into Deep Tech Startups You Can't Vibe Code a Fusion Reactor. But You Can Borrow One. CERN is licensing quantum, AI, radiation, timing to deep tech startups 289. The Noonification: Ponzi Scheme Victims Beware: There Is No Such Thing As Easy Money (11/23/2023) 11/23/2023: Top 5 stories on the Hackernoon homepage! 290. '9/10 Startups Fail' Depends on Your Definition of Failure There is one of those "universal truths" in the world of startups that, like almost all of them, is neither as universal nor as TRUE as we usually think, and that investors often repeat: 9 out of 10 companies fail. 291. Setting Up Online Acquiring as a Startup Firsthand - Round 1: Failed 🚫 A fun adventure and personal experience on setting up a payment processing system for a no-name startup in a foreign country 292. 11 Lessons I Learned as a Tech Founder I’ve been a full-time founder for almost a year but have been into startup culture for most of my professional career as a software engineer (~4 years). 293. 4 Ways Startups Entered the Lending Space In times of social distancing, most people spend more time at home. A short series I can recommend for your next evening on your couch is Bad Banks. In the second season, the investment banker Jana Liekam and her team of trusted accomplices move to Berlin to take over a sustainable robo-advisor. The viewer is pulled into the power struggle between the incumbent Deutsche Global Invest with its fintech incubator in Berlin, and the rivalling robo-advisors fin21, and Jana’s Green Wallet. 294. SEO is DEAD! Worked hard on SEO for my site, saw a traffic spike and eventually found out the truth about search engine optimization. 295. How to Launch a Mobile App Startup - 7 Tips from Industry Veterans Mobile app development continues to grow but creating a mobile app startup is not easy. This article will help you in launching a mobile app startup. 296. You Owe Your Team Prompt Layoffs and a New Plan Right now, the start-up community is facing upheaval. Although shelter-in-place rules tend to affect some companies more than others and hopefully will be limited to the short-term, all of us will be in uncharted territory for the rest of the year, as we navigate chaotic capital markets and a possible recession. 297. The future of SaaS is savings, Spendflo raises Series A Spendflo raises $11 million Series A Bolster all-in-one SaaS Buying and Management Solution 298. Choosing a SaaS Building Path: Build in Public or Private? Depending on your goals, one method can be more useful than the other. "Build in public" has become a popular alternative, but it's not for everyone. 299. What Leaders Can do to Encourage Learning and Development An organization's success depends not only on current capabilities but on the team's ability to grow and adapt. And this is facilitated by its leaders. 300. 13 Expert Tips to Improve Your Web Application Performance Today From load tests to feature toggling to performance profilers, discover 13 expert tips to build performance into your web application. 301. Scaling a Startup: What You Need to Know Brian Bourque gives advice on scaling a startup. 302. The Importance of Cybersecurity in Early-stage Startups When it comes to early-stage startups and cybersecurity, the two concepts do not always go hand-in-hand. In this write-up, we'll explain the importance of cybersecurity and how it will build trust with customers and investors. 303. 3 Key Considerations when Recruiting for Clean Tech Startups Remarking key points to have in mind when cleantech startups are recruiting talent 304. "You Can Build a Strong Team That’s Remote From the Beginning" Carolyn Mooney, CEO, Nextmv Nextmv is a Philadelphia startup of the year nominee, and their CEO and cofounder, Carolyn Mooney shares with us their origin story and remote culture secrets. 305. How to Increase Marketplace Commission: A Real Story A real story and step-by-step guide on how to increase commission on your marketplace without disrupting business model. 306. Building a Successful Product: Why User Experience Matters What your customer will remember is how they felt while using the product, not how unique/different it was. 307. Five Life Hacks That Help Your Crypto Startup Get Its First Users For Free. Knowing where to publish info about your new crypto startup and successfully building an audience on that platform is key to sucessfully building up a userbase 308. How Good UX Designers Can Rescue Your Startup The biggest mistakes startup founders are making and real reasons why compromising on UX is detrimental to the success of your business. 309. How to go From Idea to MVP Simple steps to get an idea off the ground and start building momentum. 310. How the 10,000 Hours Rule Applies to Entrepreneurship Explore the transformative power of the 10,000-hour rule in entrepreneurship. 311. 7 Entrepreneurship Tips That Will Change Your Business Life Want to open a business? Check out the entrepreneurship tips we created especially for you! Are you about to set up a venture? This is undoubtedly one of the most important steps for anyone's professional career. 312. Building Strategic Partnerships: A 5-Step Guide for Early Stage Startups Entering into strategic partnerships in the early stages of your startup can often do more for your brand than an outright acquisition. 313. Interview with Digilus Technologies LLC Founder and CEO, Saahil Kumar Chathrath Founder and CEO of tech company Digilus Technologies LLC, Saahil Kumar Chathrath shared few important tips for starting a successful startup. The Indian entrep 314. 7 Actionable Tips to Get More Customer Reviews Customer reviews are one of the best ways to build rapport with your audience and grow your business. So, today I'm going to show you how to get more reviews. 315. 624 Stories To Learn About Startup Advice Learn everything you need to know about Startup Advice via these 624 free HackerNoon stories. 316. What Questions Should I Ask My Startup Advisor? Confused about how to ask bold questions to your soon-to-be advisor? This article will fire you up in 6 minutes. Promise! 317. SaaS Pricing Guide Pricing is one of the important factors that make any business move forward. Even if your product is awesome, users won’t feel like buying it unless the value is appropriate for them. So, you need to keep your pricing right. 318. “Pitch Like a Boss”: 10 Real Tips I Wish Founders Actually Took Seriously Not a founder, but sat in 100+ pitch meetings. Here are 10 powerful, honest tips every startup needs to hear before stepping in front of investors. 319. Steal My AI Prompt for Building Investor-Ready Business Plans Steal a complete AI prompt that turns business plans from static fiction into investor-ready, assumption-tested strategy that actually guides execution. 320. How to Build High-Quality Products at Startup Speed: A Comprehensive Guide Accelerate your time to market with this actionable strategy for a successful startup launch. 12 insights on how to build a product in fast and smart way. 321. How to Name Your Startup I’ve always found naming things to be particularly challenging. That is because a bad name is way worse than a good name is good - naming your car the “No-Go” (as the Chevy Nova was in Spanish) is far worse than a decent name like the Passat is good. Naming is, unfortunately, a negative sum game. 322. 5 Signs Your Startup Actually Has Brand Value Startups often talk about brand, but very few actually have brand value. This article breaks down what makes a brand financially valuable. 323. The Goals of Software Design A misguided software design can hurt both the business and the technology. It is therefore vital to understand an organizations goals and optimize accordingly. 324. You Are Going About Startup Hiring All Wrong Unearth hidden high-potential talent based on attitude, not just aptitude. Keep these diamonds to propel your startup rocket ship skyward. 325. 4 APIs Every Startup Should Know About Your Startup is looking for ways to work more efficiently and improve your customer experience? This article shows you 4 APIs that can help you. 326. How to Take Your MVP From Idea to Launch As a business person without the tech skills to build an MVP, it can be tempting to look for a software development partner as soon as possible. 327. 62 Stories To Learn About Tech Startups Learn everything you need to know about Tech Startups via these 62 free HackerNoon stories. 328. How to Hustle Your Way to 1.5 Million Newsletter Subscribers This article takes you through the growth journey of The Hustle and the lessons that startups can learn from their growth over the years and how to apply them. 329. CARPA: How To Identify Fortune Cookie Advice, As An Entrepreneur Entrepreneurship is tough and full of unknowns… Deciding to start a company is like going back to school on purpose, every single day, knowing that there’s much you don’t know. Luckily, it’s 2020: a whole lot of people have started startups before you, and many of them like to talk about it. 330. 95 Stories To Learn About Startup Founders Learn everything you need to know about Startup Founders via these 95 free HackerNoon stories. 331. Who Needs a Seat at The Table For Your Enterprise Blockchain Company? Do you have the right stakeholders at the table to begin having important conversations and contributing to key decisions? 332. 435 Stories To Learn About Startup Lessons Learn everything you need to know about Startup Lessons via these 435 free HackerNoon stories. 333. Simple Steps to Improve Your Startup's Unit Economics and Reduce Costs Streamline workflows, automate tasks, and cut costs by rethinking hiring, marketing, office space, and subscriptions. 334. Uncover Your Customers' Hidden Needs In 4 Steps with Jobs-To-Be-Done + Access Custom GPT The ultimate guide to understand what your customers truly want. Including free access to a customized JTBD GPT and printable checklist 335. Understanding What VC Funds Are and How They Make Money How do VC funds decide to invest hundreds of thousands of dollars in startups, where they get the money from, and how does a VC firm make money? 336. Everything Startups Need to Know About Cybersecurity Cyberattacks have become more frequent over time. Businesses increasingly use digital platforms to store their data, making it more likely for bad actors to launch cyberattacks. Startups are the most vulnerable to these attacks, even though we've seen large firms also be the target, which causes them to have a damaged reputation or closure. 337. Communities Matter: Here’s How to Build a Great One In this article, I share how the community helped one of Storyby’s flagship products, AlphaNovel, and why any startup should consider building one. 338. Why Top-Tier Media Coverage Is Essential for Startup Success Why Top-Tier Media Coverage is Essential for Startup Success 339. Overwhelmed by the Chaos of Running a Startup? Try this Project Management Approach Overwhelmed by startup challenges? Learn how NUPP principles and P3.Express can bring clarity, align your team, and scale processes effectively. 340. The MVP Dilemma: Enhancing Quality while Optimizing Development Time These tips help significantly improve MVP quality so that it might become a foundation for the final app and could be maintained for many years. 341. How To Improve Customer Retention and Increase LTV Retaining customers is the number one growth strategy for business. Learn how to retain your customer and improve lifetime value (LTV). 342. A Comprehensive Guide to Effective Project Estimation Project estimation is a critical aspect of successful project management. In this guide, I'll explore effective strategies for mastering project estimation. 343. On Fintech Trends and Contactless Technology: Startup Interview with Daumantas Barauskas Daumantas Barauskas, COO of Genome, shares with us Genome's origin story, technology to be excited about and the future of fintech in the Startups interview. 344. Making AI Work for Your Startup: Essential Dos and Don'ts Explore the critical questions and challenges faced by startups delving into AI development. 345. Decentralized Crowdfunding: A New Way of Funding Seed Stage Startups Many decentralized funding platforms are emerging that are helping new startups raise funding for their business by tokenizing the business ownership. 346. The Only Metric That Matters in Business Most people pay too much attention to their profits and not enough to their cash flow. Read on to learn why cash flow is the key metric in business. 347. What's The One Thing You Can’t Miss When Building an MVP? At Altar.io we’ve built dozens of products over the years, working with entrepreneurs from all over the world. 348. 3 Examples of Lead Generation Activities For B2B & SaaS Companies Here are some examples of innovative lead generation activities that will skyrocket your sales in 2020. Triggered Messages From Chatbots 🤖 349. 10 Myths Stopping You From Becoming an Entrepreneur Entrepreneurs tend to believe that all the stars in the sky need to be aligned perfectly for their start-ups to succeed. Because of this belief, they postpone their jump to entrepreneurship, often indefinitely. 350. Beyond the Hype: Four Surprising Truths About AI ROI in 2025 Unlocking AI's full value requires broader organizational transformation. 351. Sales Pitch Shake-Up: Part Two—The Pitch Hack So Obvious, You’ll Kick Yourself One simple sales pitch hack rooted in neuroscience that'll leave your prospects hungry for your solution. 352. Action Breeds Clarity Action breeds clarity and encapsulates a fundamental truth that transcends various aspects of life. It allows us to break free from the constraints of overthink 353. To Get the Outputs You Want, You Need to Build Systems There are two kinds of leaders: one that acts on a whim, and one that follows procedures to solve a problem. 354. If all startups were lean, would we ever get to Mars? Lean methodology is simple: identify value, and deliver it with as few steps as possible. 355. Shift-Left Data Platforms in Early-Stage Startups: Strategies for Data-Driven Success Left-Shift Data Platform: How to overcome early stage startup challenges to be Data-Driven 356. Is Starting a Proptech Company Still a Good Idea? The need for proptech entrepreneurs to navigate a two-front battle: creating multifunctional solutions that inspire user confidence while appealing to investors 357. Painkillers, Vitamins, or Dopamine - Which One is Your Startup, and What Strategy Should You Choose? The article proposes an alternative baseline framework for defining your startup or idea's product type, market sizing and launch strategy. 358. Time & Material vs. Cost Plus Pricing: Which is Better for Your Software Outsourcing Project? Time & Material vs. Cost Plus Pricing: Which is Better for Your Software Outsourcing Project? 359. What's the Difference Between an Overhyped Startup and a Valuable Business? Garry Tan explains the difference between a startup that will fail vs a business that will thrive. 360. Marketers Just Might Be The Only Professionals Saving Startups From Destroying Themselves Chief marketing officers are often caught between the drive for rapid growth and the need for honest representation. 361. Get a Job in Tech: Flo's Experience as CEO Florian Narr is CEO of KLIXPERT.io a Growth Marketing Company. 362. Finding the Right Technical Partner for Your Startup A first-person account of how Founder and Entrepreneur Adil Kurt-Eli found the right technical partner for his startup. 363. Stop Building "AI-Powered" Sh*t. The SaaS Gold Rush is a Trap Why most AI-powered SaaS products fail: founders overbuild, skip validation, and chase hype instead of solving real problems. A blunt guide to doing it right. 364. Measuring Product Maturity: Frameworks for Early Stage VCs, Founders In most new products today, the technological risk is minuscule in comparison with the risk of not achieving product-market fit. 365. 138 Stories To Learn About Startups Top Story Learn everything you need to know about Startups Top Story via these 138 free HackerNoon stories. 366. Startup Interview with Andrey Ustyugov, CEO, Planner 5D Planner 5D CEO talks about what is driving the team to build the best interior design and home improvement platform. 367. These 5 B2B Sales Strategies Will Help You Close More Deals Over the years, the dynamics of sales have changed completely. Salespersons are not in charge of the buying process anymore — customers are! 368. "Fail faster. Shorten the path to success": Borys Pikalov, Stobox Co-Founder Stobox was nominated as one of the best startups in Los Altos, United States in Startups of The Year hosted by HackerNoon. 369. How to Avoid Burning $80K+ on Tech Events: 10 Tips for Exhibiting Your Startup Efficiently Learn how to exhibit at startup events and tech conferences – and get the most out of your time and money! 370. Find a Hard Metric From the Start To succeed at sales, you need to know the value of your product. 371. The $120 Tool That Saved Us $120k—And Nearly Killed Our Marketing Culture Canva saved my startup thousands. And almost erased our ability to do real marketing. Here's what happened, and when Canva's actually worth using. 372. Top PR Tricks and Free Tools for Early Stage Startups It can be hard for an early stage startup to get featured in tech news. But if hiring a PR manager will make a hole in the budget, what options do they have? 373. 5 Biggest Mistakes Indie Builders Make And How To Avoid Them Discover the top 5 mistakes indie builders make when building a SaaS and how to save yourself from the costly trial and error. 374. Do You Really Need Content Marketing to Grow Your B2B SaaS? Content marketing isn't for every B2B SaaS startup. It depends on 6 key factors. Use this framework to choose the right growth strategy for your startup. 375. 6 Books To Supercharge Your Startup Journey And Entrepreneurial Skills This time of the year typically involves cocktails at rooftop bars, stunning city views, vacations in quaint European countries, or relaxing on the beach with a book. While the first three may be off limits this year, reading is one pleasure we can still enjoy. Most entrepreneurs we know are voracious readers, so we decided to round up a list of books that will make Summer 2020 more enjoyable and productive. Whether you’re headed to the beach, the mountains or the living room, these six books are bound to offer good ideas and a dose of inspiration. 376. Survey Tools Testing: Typeform, Survey Planet, and Google Forms [Reviewed] Client survey is an incredible tool. It can perform a surprising amount of functions, apart from the obvious one of getting user feedback. This includes remarketing, identifying your core audience and reaching out to it, or even subtly announcing upcoming releases. 377. Top Guiding Principles on Growing your Startup You have a talented team, and your teammates both embrace your vision and are helping you shape a matching culture. Congratulations as these are two big ‘wins’ that many investors will rank above opportunity size. 378. Hidden Costs of Starting a Small Business If you own a small business, limiting your costs is just as important as maximizing your revenue. 379. 5 Real Benefits of Investing in Digital Marketing What is a digital marketing and why it is an essential option in the company's formation? In the modern world, adults spend hours a day online. The so-called Internet population is continuously growing year by year. More and more people prefer to sell, buy and lease things online, as well as order services, and search for relevant information. 380. The Right Way to Build Things is to Build Things A few nights ago, I used the wrong pan to make dinner. 381. A Thorough Guide on How Wefunder Works What is Wefunder? How do you get starting crowdfunding your business? Read this in-depth guide to find out. 382. Your Release Process Is a Projection of Fear Your release process isn't neutral. It reflects what you're most afraid of: breaking production or building something nobody wants. 383. We’re All Just Remixing Capitalism: 85 Business Models That Prove So From “Buy One, Give One” to “Negative Operating Cycle,” here’s your ultimate guide to making money by reinventing the wheel. 384. 8 Legal Documents Every Business Startup Needs ‘Caution’ is not exactly a word we associate with budding entrepreneurs and founders. Many of whom thrive on passion, uncertainty, and taking calculated risks. But before you turn that spark of a great idea into a reality, it’s wise to pause and consider if you’ve covered all your legal bases. To set yourself up for optimal success, it’s critical that each new venture is built on a solid legal foundation so you’re ready and prepared for the challenges and curveballs. 385. From San Francisco to the Sands: Why U.S. Tech Talent Is Eyeing the UAE The UAE isn’t replacing Silicon Valley, but it’s carving out its own lane as a serious contender in the tech world. 386. Exploring Famous MVP Pivots: Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube Success Stories Check out why many popular apps had to pivot to make a success. Read Instagram, Twitter, YouTube and Netflix pivot stories. 387. Will Baltic states Embrace Crypto Startups and Blockchain Companies? It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. Charles Darwin 388. Payroll Solutions for Cross-Border Freelancers: A $1.4 Trillion Opportunity The acceleration of the digital transition from 2020 onwards emphasized one thing: there is only one global market, and in it, talent is more valuable than ever 389. Idea Factories — How Do we Create More and Better Ideas for Humanity The concept of ideas being trumped by execution in the startup world is so prevalent that there is no single adage to capture it. 390. 12 Ways You Can Use Email to Nurture Leads to Conversion In Dashly, we prepared 12 examples if emails which can be used to nurture your leads. But for starters, let’s define our concepts. 391. The API You Built On Could Kill You in 2025—Time to Find the Exit The biggest threat to your startup isn’t competition, but the infrastructure you’ve built it on. 392. How To Utilise Gig Economy As A Start-up For Flexible Success Gig economy prospers post-pandemic. How can startups utilise flexible workers in their business strategy to get more affordable employees in their offices. 393. The Fastest Way to Start Your Own E-Commerce Business In the last few decades, E-commerce businesses have grown exponentially. The e-commerce industry is exploding and creating millions of opportunities for the growing population. Shopping online has been a luxury with the growth of the industry, but not anymore. Ordering goods and services online has undeniably become a necessity for most customers who prefer shopping online to shopping physically in stores for convenience. With the need for convenient shopping comes the demand for services, presenting the best moment to start an eCommerce business and advance on to financial freedom. Remember, seizing the moment is just the first step to becoming your own boss, a thousand more lie ahead. 394. The Craze of On-Demand Apps: What Startups Need to Know Learn about the types, market size, and latest trends in the world of on-demand apps. 395. Guide to Product Research Based on Experiences of Skyeng, Dashly, Miro and ER-Telecom Recently we held a meetup where Dashly and other IT companies talked internal researches. We invited Alisa Velminskaya, user researcher at Skyeng, who told us about how Skyeng’s research team manages to combine user research and data analysis. She also shared some research organizing experience. Other representatives who joined her to talk about their companies’ research methods were Ekaterina Syuma, product designer at Miro, and Maxim Golovkin, head of web & mobile development at ER-Telecom. The one shooting questions at them was Dmitrii Sergeev, the CEO & founder of Dashly. 396. 13 Deadly Startup Mistakes That You Should Avoid If you are an early-stage founder, and looking for some dos and donts. This blog post is for you. I have launched two startups in my entrepreneurial career so far. I have had 1 failed startup and another one is doing ‘Okay’ in revenues. 397. The Startup Playbook Is a Lie. Ask Better Questions. Transform your path to exit. A founder shares how 'Deep Dialogue' reveals unspoken industry truths, unlocking resilient growth and unconventional success. 398. "Walk Down the Road of Life Without Fearing Anything" Max Azarov, CEO and Co-Founder, Novakid Max Azarov, the CEO and Co-Founder of Novakid, a language learning platform, shares the origin story of the company and the value of their community. 399. How To Validate Your Startup Idea With Less Time and Money Validation: The Most Overlooked Aspect Of A Startup 400. 10 Common Product Management Mistakes that Could be Slowing Your Progress We see hard-working product teams struggling all the time, even under the best of conditions. Often, it’s not due to a deficiency or lack of skill within the team. Rather, the team has fallen into one—or more—of the most common dysfunctions in product management. 401. 15 Low-Cost Techniques for High Conversion Rate Optimization Websites are like sales person that work 24/7 for your business. Learn these 15 tips for creating a high-converting page. 402. Your Complete Guide To Venture Capital Funding For Startups Venture Capital is an institutional investment made into early-stage startup companies. If you want the investment, you need to work on a growth plan. 403. Accounting Automation is a Prerequisite for Business Growth and Development Technology has enabled professionals from diverse fields to delegate repetitive manual tasks to software programs, giving them time to do more interesting and creative work and allowing for professional development. In the field of accounting, new software is able to take on complex calculations and bookkeeping, giving CPAs the ability to perform previously laborious tasks with just a couple of mouse clicks. 404. You Either Grow Your Business or You Don’t - Growth Hacking is Total BS! There is no short cut to business growth; hacking or not! It takes good effort, consistency, and innovation to build a business that can stand the test of time. 405. Your Value, Not Your Title A tribe of Cannibals arrives at New York City. 406. Why should Web3 projects not put profit in the first place? The Essential Metrics for Success. Money is the main focus of Web2. In Web3, you need to focus on value, not only profit. Read the article about the essential metrics in Web3, blockchain, crypto. 407. 10 Cringe PR Outreach #FAILS Shared by Journalists on Twitter The most wondrous PR pitches and moves get a moment of fame eventually. Usually, in a reporter’s Twitter post. 408. Meet the Writer: Two-Time Founder Sam Bhattacharyya on Accidentally Finding Product-Market Fit Sam, an AI founder shares how an abandoned open source demo unexpectedly found product-market fit—and what it taught him about building in public. 409. How to Validate Your Startup Idea Using Delta-4 Wealth Creation Theory Delta-4 is a theory coined by Kunal Shah on how to evaluate your startup idea. It can be used as a framework for evaluating startup ideas and growth potential. 410. How My Side Project Made $600+ in 5 Days Without Social Presence I took my side project from $0 to $600+ in 5 days 411. The Ideal Tech Co-Founder for Your Startup: Expert Tips to Avoid Odds of Failure in 2021 Choosing a technical co-founder is one of the most important decisions you’ll make as an entrepreneur. 412. "True Pain is the Inability to Breathe" - Muhammad Bilal, CEO of BreatheIO I find that work and personal life are just categoricals, that only come to play with respect to space, not even time. 413. 240 Stories To Learn About Startups Of The Year Learn everything you need to know about Startups Of The Year via these 240 free HackerNoon stories. 414. Good Managers Vs. Great Managers One of the most important aspects of building great product organisations is to design a system where builders thrive. A group of well-organized, ambitious yet humble, smart folks is an unstoppable force. 415. Russia's War Forces Belarusian Startups to Relocate to Madrid Why this Belarusian startup hub is now calling Madrid home. 416. Why Art Tech Start-ups Fail: 5 Key Mistakes to Avoid Discover the top 5 reasons why art startups fail. And get some more: Top NFT failed startups and research overview on why stratup companies fail by 10101.art 417. David Horesh on Marketing Optimization, Importance of MultiLayer Touchpoints, & Tik Tok For Startups B2B marketing is all about constantly navigating multiple touchpoints and discovering platforms to achieve maximum efficiency. 418. Things to Keep in Mind When Creating a Health Mobile App Health has always been the primary concern of humanity. This article will tell you how to create a mobile health app and make it available to everyone. 419. How to Turn “Impossible” Into Your Next Breakthrough Inspired by Muhammad Ali’s philosophy, this piece shows how creators, founders, and game developers can turn rejection, failure, and doubt into momentum. 420. Andrew Wilkinson: Lessons Learned Based on the Last 20 Years of Running Tiny Here's a big list of things that don't seem to work, based on the last 20 years of running Tiny: 421. Increase Your Onboarding Conversion by Over 20% with These Techniques Everything you need to know to drastically improve your SaaS onboarding completion rates. 422. AI + Creativity: Startup Interview with Olof Lindh, Kive.ai Founder Kive is a smarter way for creatives to automatically organize their libraries and collaborate on the creative process. 423. Disrupting the Norm: A Tale of Love, Business, and Integration from a Power Couple This dynamic duo has not only built a loving family over 15 years of marriage but have also nurtured two successful businesses side by side. 424. 6 Entrepreneurial Tips For First-Time Entrepreneurs People aspiring to become successful entrepreneurs must try and follow certain tips that can give them their desired success. 425. My 17 Years of Tech Experience In A Few Lines I've been working in technology for the last 17 years, and I cannot help but admit that — as rewarding as this industry seems — it's a never-ending race with time, and the speed at which the disruptive becomes outdated is unparalleled. 426. AI and Chatbots in Content Marketing: 4 Applications to Try in 2020 Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbots continue to grow in popularity. 427. Rethinking Scalability as a Startup Engineer Startups aren't just about algorithms; they're about scaling products and staying financially sustainable. 428. Narrative Debt: The Silent Killer of Early-Stage AI and Crypto Startups Narrative debt is the hidden failure mode in AI and crypto startups. Here’s how unclear messaging slows adoption more than bad code, and how to fix it. 429. Understanding the Difference Between SaaS and Traditional B2B Software Models Get a clear understanding of the differences between SaaS and traditional B2B software models. Discover which model is right for your business needs. 430. AstroLabs: Accelerating Tech Entrepreneurship in MENA This post is part of the Hacker Noon Shareholder Series, where we interview some of the super-investors who made the site you're on right now possible. 431. From Idea to MVP to Hacker News in 44 Hours A day by day account of how I went from initial idea to coding and releasing my new app in 11 days, culminating in a Hacker News post. 432. Successful Entrepreneurs Use These 8 Methods to Find Their Next Software Startup Idea Discover 8 proven ways to find your next startup idea, backed by Y Combinator success stories. 433. Why Hiring Globally Diverse Talent Will Make You More Likely to Succeed A 2018 study by BCG found that companies with diverse management teams generate 19% more revenue through innovation than management teams with below-average diversity scores. 434. From Zero to Hero: Build a Team of High-Performers Building a successful business is a challenging task. It takes dedication, hard work, and a team of individuals willing to work together to achieve a common goal. I always say this, but businesses don’t move people; people move businesses. 435. Bob Sabra, CEO Hovi Digital Lab on How Putting Employees First Helps in Success Started from the bottom now we’re here. 2 years into our venture, we're 32 people with a plan to conquer the world of Digital Marketing! 436. Founder Story: Lessons From Over 25 Years in Silicon Valley This is part two of a two-part conversation with serial founder and pioneer of “digital identity” Garrett Gafke on how he built and launched his most successful startup, IdentityMind. Click here to read part one. 437. 6 Tips to Create a Powerful Elevator Pitch Looking for tips to develop a robust and incredible elevator pitch? A compelling elevator pitch is pretty essential for achieving your business goals and objectives. Whether you want to raise money from venture capitalists or angel investors, or just willing to hire a perfect team for your business, defining your elevator pitch is the most important task. 438. Finding the Right CTO for Your Startup: Insights from a Tech Lead With 20 Years Experience As a non-technical founder, this is a 9-step guide on finding the right Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for your technology startup. 439. My Startup Was Bleeding Cash—Here’s How I Sold It Anyway Story and step-by-step guide about a selling my non-profitable startup. 440. Bootstrapped Growth: The Best and Worst of 2023 Learn from my successes and mistakes and become a better startup founder. Here's what you should do and what to avoid. 441. Motivation from Mathematics: Hire for Slope, not Y-Intercept Forget about the y-intercept; slope is the only thing that matters in the long run. 442. How to Preserve Your Remote Company Culture Promoting socializing, resisting surveillance, and hosting idea sessions can help to preserve your remote company culture. 443. Interviewing Top Talent, Made Easy Hiring senior talent doesn’t have to be hard with this simple process. 444. Your Startup Needs Governance, Not Vibes Early-stage startups often ignore governance. This piece explains why weak controls break Web3, AI, and robotics companies—and how to design real accountability 445. Why You Shouldn't Be Scared to Increase Your Marketplace Commission In this article, Arseniy Maximov, a serial entrepreneur and marketplace builder discusses why and how to raise your marketplace's commission. 446. How to handle your startup data like a big tech Core principles in data management that all big tech companies adhere to can and should be adopted by startups. 447. Has Long-Term Business Planning Become Obsolete? I cofounded a Ukrainian company, so life has drastically changed for my team since the beginning of the war. While reflecting on the lessons I learned over the last year, I recognized that long-term planning doesn’t work now as it once did. And not just for Ukrainian companies. So, I decided to give this idea proper attention, and that’s how this article was started. 448. 5 Financial Lessons Learned While Launching a Startup Startups fail as they run out of cash or can't raise enough funding. Here are five critical financial lessons for founders. 449. How I Built a Technical Writing Company: An Interview with Karl Hughes. CEO, Draft.Dev Learn how Karl went from startup CTO to full-time technical writer in 2020. 450. Why invest in developing critical thinking skills? Critical thinking is now frequently identified as one of the most essential skills, if not the most essential, to be successful as a leader in the 21st century 451. The Spy Mission: A Guide for Analyzing Your Competitors Discover smart strategies and essential tools for conducting thorough competitive analysis in the business world. 452. How to Choose the Right Copywriter for Your Project Copywriting is a unique and beneficial talent that can add enormous value to your business, but finding the right person for your copywriting project is seldom an easy task. 453. 4 Mistakes to Avoid When Building a One-Person Business Learn to avoid the pitfalls of scale, low pricing, and consumer markets, and instead focus on businesses that target niche markets and offer higher value. 454. 8 Growth Hacking Principles for (Near) Guaranteed Startup Success A lot of entrepreneurs have great vision, but lack growth hacking skills. Here are 8 growth principles to help startups succeed in 2022. 455. How We Closed Our First Pre-Seed Round in 2 Weeks We got accepted into YC on the 9th of December 2019. Originally, we wanted to raise a pre-seed round before starting YC on the 6th of January. But at the same time, we didn’t want to incorporate the company in 2019 so we wouldn’t have to deal with the taxes for 2019. Call us lazy! One would say lazy is not bad, as long as it’s smart lazy! 456. How to Find the Best Growth Marketer for Your Startup Looking to grow your startup? Hire the right growth marketer with our helpful tips and tricks. Learn what to look for in a growth marketer. 457. From Zero to Unicorn: A Playbook for Explosive Startup Growth with Ankit Maloo Explore cutting-edge startup growth strategies with Ankit Maloo. Learn about demand generation, influencer marketing, and AI-driven tactics for business growth. 458. How to Tell Your Product’s Story in Compelling Visuals: Advice for Startups on a Budget A great video can be worth a thousand words – particularly for showcasing your product. Learn how to make engaging videos for your startup on a budget! 459. Worried About Recent Layoffs? Bit.com is Looking For Talent and Plans to Double its Workforce The second-largest crypto options exchange, Bit.com aims to double its workforce amidst layoffs. 460. Should I Work At A Startup Or An Established Company? A Company vs A Startup. What’s best? In this article, I review my experience working at both startups and companies to help you determine your best route. 461. Startup Funding 101: Navigating the Investment Landscape Discover expert strategies for navigating the investment landscape and securing capital. 462. Here Are 4 Easy Ways to Be Useful in Your Startup Life is not a race, but startups are. You have to add value to the market before the runway is up. Success and failure are binary. 463. 5 Green Flags That Show Your Product Idea Has Potential Learn how to navigate the product development journey with confidence, ensuring your idea aligns with user needs and market trends. 464. For Entrepreneurs, Endurance is more Important than Intellect Entrepreneurship Is a Test of Endurance, Not Intellect. Discover why grit and resilience are the true drivers of success in entrepreneurship. 465. How to Sell Your Business Model to VCs in 2024 Master the art of pitching your business model to VCs in 2024. Discover how to clarify your revenue streams, optimize your pitch deck, and showcase competition. 466. Adopting a Hybrid Product-led and Enterprise Sales Approach in Your SaaS Organization Build complementary product led and enterprise sales motion to scale cloud based SaaS businesses 467. Should You Implement a Multi-Brand Strategy for Your Startup? I used to research a lot on brands, their marketing and other interesting case studies. many huge brands had this “Multiple Brand” thing in common but I couldn’t find anything that explains this idea for a common man so decided to write one.Multi Brand Strategy — Sounds like a term from a very hard subject but it’s very simple. It means a company that sell products under one or more brands. 468. 4 Lean Marketing Strategies for Disruptive Startups Startups rarely have money to throw around on ostentatious marketing strategies. 469. How to Scale a Startup: 7 Proven Strategies for Explosive Growth Scaling a startup is a long-term process that will require much effort and consistency for your sustainable startup growth. 470. Weighing the Pros and Cons of Building Your Startup in Public Exploring the pros and Cons of building in public. 471. 6 Key Takeaways From Clubhouse FOMO for First-time Founders Though the FOMO is gone but here are the key takeaways that founders can learn from Clubhouse. 472. Startup Costs: Can the MVP Route Save You a Lot of Money? Entrepreneurship is getting popular with every passing day, leading to an increase in rising startups. But how many have tasted success? 473. Next Holiday Season, Ignore Everyone Except One Customer Holiday marketing sucks. Next year, ditch the ads and discount vouchers for a campaign targeting one person. Here's how. 474. The Art of the Pivot: How to Change the Course of Your Business Want to pivot and change the course of your business? The recommendations in this article may come in handy. 475. Tech Founders Can't Seem to Break Up With Their AI Algorithms AI marketing tools are sucking the life out of your tech startup. Insights drawn from conversations with founders who had their minds screwed up by AI. 476. "Borders are Getting Thinner, but Division Among Societies is Growing" An interview with the founder of Quixy, a no-code platform that helps automate processes for any industry and any function. 477. RiseUp, NBA of Fintech, Measuring Goals, and Productivity Tips An Interview with a Fintech founder on scaling a product, measuring goals and practical productivity tips. 478. 7-Step Checklist: How to Incorporate Your Startup This checklist covers the most important aspects of incorporating your business so you can move forward confidently. 479. How to Secure Your SaaS Application The Software as a Service (SaaS) model has been gaining in popularity in the business world in recent years as an alternative to on-premises software deployment. Also known as on-demand, hosted or web-based software, the model entails the delivery of cloud-based applications via the internet. The service provider is responsible for the service’s security, availability and performance so SaaS is a natural choice for businesses (especially small ones) that want to save on IT infrastructure installation and maintenance, as well as on software license purchases. 480. What Are The Most Common Mistakes New Startups Make? Newbie startups fly HIGH and then fall hard! Here’s why. 481. What You Can Do If Your Startup Does Not Get Traction Startups might sound cool but they are not easy! 482. Three Non-Obvious Fundraising Tips from the Startup Veterans Behind Lovevery When friends Jessica Rolph and Rod Morris partnered to launch Lovevery in 2015, the two founders already had massive success stories under their belts. Jessica previously had a successful exit from organic baby food company Happy Family, which she founded. Rod helped take SaaS utility platform Opower public as part of the company’s leadership team. Despite their wealth of past experience, Jessica and Rod had plenty to learn when fundraising for Lovevery, a subscription business that puts sustainable, science-backed play kits into the hands of parents. As parents themselves, Jessica and Rod knew their idea had legs when they began working on it — but they still felt “very vulnerable” during the fundraising process, according to Jessica. “With the success we had in the raises, on the outside they [seemingly] came easily,” Jessica says. “But on the inside, getting to that place where you have momentum is hard.” As they grew Lovevery, they found fundraising successfully was all about the timing. On an episode of How I Raised It, Jessica and Rod shared the lessons that came from raising $32 million for Lovevery over three funding rounds. 483. Avoid marketing fails and make your Web3 project attractive to users, devs and VCs In this article, I gathered the most popular Web3 startups’ failures in marketing and explained how to avoid them. Must read for Web3 founders, CEOs and COOs. 484. 5 Easy Steps to Name Your Startup Business When you’re starting out as an entrepreneur you may not think twice about your startup name, but a brand name has the power to make or break your business. 485. Tools That Keep Our $100k/mo Startup Running Enterprise software that we happily pay for at our Startup that is making $100k/mo. 486. How Meditation will Save your Startup Business How meditation is going save your startup business. Here's a hint: You've been doing it all along. [487. 7 Funding Options to Raise Capital For Your Startup](https://hackernoon.com/7-funding-options-to-raise-capital-for-your-startup) There’s an old adage that money isn’t easy to come by, especially if you weren’t born with a silver spoon in your mouth. This isparticularly true for funding startups. It may be true that the almighty dollar isn’t easy to earn, but with these 7 funding options you can begin raising capital for your startup. 488. Entrepreneurs: It Takes One to Know One It takes an entrepreneur to know one. 489. 3 Questions That Can Help You To Generate Great Startup Ideas Is there a repeatable process for coming up with new and good startup ideas? In this post, we distill insights from great founders and technologists, like Eric Yuan of Zoom, Marc Andreesen, Ben Horowitz, etc and share three simple questions you can ask yourself to generate startup ideas worth pursuing. 490. Startups Dilemma: Build vs Buy To buy or build is a tough choice entrepreneurs have to make. But how do you know what the right choice is? Here's an article to help with that. 491. How We Recruited and Vetted Our First 3000+ Service Providers on a Marketplace How a dog walking marketplace built a scalable supply system: from manual onboarding to data-driven activation of 400+ service providers. 492. Beyond Fame and Parties: What top Engineers Really Want From a Startup 8 things that make engineers today say, “this place is for me!” 493. How Data-Driven Coaching Helps Employees Reach Their Potential Data is everywhere. In the business world alone, we use it to track search engine traffic, monitor website activity, land sales, improve customer service. 494. What Can Flash Gordon Teach You About Sustained Business Growth? With 283% growth over a three-year period, no one would be faulted in believing that Sashen’s theories and intuitions are at the heart of Xero Shoes' success. 495. What Are Some Simple Ways to Find Out if Your Business Idea Is Any Good? With the help of digital technologies, it will be easier for any startup to constantly research its audience, interests, and current needs. 496. Lean Business Model: What Entrepreneurs Need To Do in Times of Crisis “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”- Margaret Mead 497. A Rule Book for Crisis Communications A rule book for crisis communications - from MVPR founder Tom Lawrence 498. Everything You Need to Know About Employee Engagement Know what exactly is employee engagement and how to effectively and efficiently increase the rate of employee engagement of your organization with SuperBeings. 499. Learning New Skills as a Developer By Building Your Side-Project Since 2018 I've been involved in building close to a dozen products. Most of them I've shut down, some of them I've sold to others – and some are still alive! I credit a lot to this time – I believe these products are a major factor in my personal and professional development. 500. Product Designer's Playbook: 3 Ways to Create a Successful Design Team My experience creating a successful design team at a early stage startup by Aysha Samrin Thank you for checking out the 500 most read blog posts about Startup Advice on HackerNoon . 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