How My Friends and I Grew Our Side Project Into a $17,000/month Businessby Alexandru PaduraruWe’ve always tried to create web products that are helpful in the development process, and that we would use ourselves for building websites for clients.Continue
10 Actions That Will Kill Startup Employee Motivationby Samuel AthlanYour people are the key to your success—Here is how to avoid killing their motivation. Continue
A Little Slice of Humble Pieby John SaddingtonDo your live-fire tests with real folks and prepared to get served some humble pie. It doesn’t always taste sweet but it’s good for the soul (and the product).Continue
Drop Your Free Tierby Matthieu Varagnat“Drop your free tier” should be for bootstrapped SaaS apps what “Charge more” is to consultants: a reflex, a sanity check, a default choice.Continue
Financial Modeling For Startups: The Spreadsheet That Made Us Profitableby CayaGet on top of your Financial Model and business budget to enable managers founders to make game-changing decisions. Continue
Hardware is hard. So why does eero do it? — Interview with Nick Weaver, Co-Founder and CEOby Rafe NeedlemanIt might seem that the economics of making hardware are at odds with the cycle of easy money and fast startups, but there are still people who think that hardware is a good business because it is so difficult.Continue
Small Business Trend Predictions For 2017by John RamptonSince we’ve already entered a new year, I hope that you’ve been making your goals in preparing for 2017. Here 12 small business trend predictions that deserve your undivided attention.Continue
Why Super Mario Run Won’t Make $500M In 60 Days Like Pokémon Goby Nate DesmondInitially, Super Mario Run looked successful with an estimated 2.85 million downloads on launch day (vs 900k launch day downloads for Pokemon Go) But when you start digging into engagement numbers, Super Mario doesn’t look quite as successful.Continue
Airbnb Pitch Deck: Teardown and Redesignby CayaAirbnb's deck was incredibly successful at summarizing the company vision and the huge market opportunity they had before them. We’ve added all the original slides in this article along with a redesigned version using our Slidebean pitch deck templates, and we’ll be tearing down each one of the slides.Continue