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The Right Way to Grant Equity to Your Employees
Andy Rachleff is President and CEO of Wealthfront, a software-based financial advisor. Prior to Wealthfront, Rachleff co-founded and was general partner of Benchmark Capital. He also teaches courses on...
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Kawasaki on Why Your Startup is Dead if You Can’t Enchant
Apple's had several near-death experiences. As author, investor and now Google advisor Guy Kawasaki puts it, the company must have a guardian angel. And in the mid-1980s, that guardian angel was Aldus...
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How to Win as a First-Time Founder, a Drew Houston Manifesto
In 2007, Drew Houston flew to San Francisco determined to find a co-founder for Dropbox. At the time, it was just him. No backers. No team. On a friend’s advice, he walked into Y Combinator’s offices...
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Evernote’s CTO on Your Biggest Security Worries From 3 to 300 Employees
Dave Engberg knows a lot about security. Before he took the CTO spot at Evernote, he designed and developed credential validation systems for the U.S. government. If anyone in Silicon Valley knows the...
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The Best Approach to the Worst Conversation: "You're Fired"
Okay. So you’re growing fast. You started out with three people and now you have 47! You’ve picked up some funding. The product is coming together. You’re hiring so fast you don’t even know everyone...
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The 30 Best Pieces of Advice for Entrepreneurs in 2013
It started with a gap in the market. Technology writing comes in many forms. It can be long and lyrical a la The New Yorker. And it can be bite-size — just enough news to grab and go. What we spotted...
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The Seven Deadly Sins of Startup Storytelling
So you called a cab, but no one’s showing. The only thing the cranky dispatcher will say is “He’ll be there in 15.” You call back in 15, and he now says, “Driver’s on the way. Any minute now.” Click....
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How to Make OKRs Actually Work at Your Startup
In 2013 alone, Swipely jumped from 30 to 80 employees. Teams swelled and split, and people filled new roles with new directives. It reached that ironic point where, while growing strong, a company is...
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What It Takes to Grow Your Startup 500% in Months
It’s 3 a.m. and my phone vibrates. “This can’t be good,” I think, rolling over to read the one text message I never wanted to see: the AppDirect platform is down. No one has been able to use our...
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Rap Genius Explains Why Worse is Better
At 12:30 p.m. on August 19, 2009, Tom Lehman entered the first line of code that would eventually become Rap Genius. By 6:22 p.m. the same day, he finished the first version of the site. It took less...
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From Zero to 10,000 Clients in Two Years Using Channel Partners
Not too long ago, no one knew what Google was. It was a small company that did one thing very well, but its future as the world’s most pervasive brand was far from cemented. History shows Google owes...
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The Five Mistakes Startups Make When Building for Mobile
In 2009, Farhan Thawar joined mobile development firm Xtreme Labs as VP of Engineering. At the time, it handled accounts for some of the biggest brands in the world — a roster including the largest...
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Asana’s Justin Rosenstein on the One Quality Every Startup Needs to Survive
Justin Rosenstein wasn’t sure what had happened. One of his company’s highest performing engineers seemed to have lost his enthusiasm for the work. “He had gone from super dedicated to detached,” says...
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This Product Prioritization System Nabbed Pandora 70 Million Monthly Users...
When it went public in 2011, over a decade after the company’s founding, Pandora employed fewer than 40 engineers. With this skeleton crew, the company built products for 70 million monthly users on...
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Unlocking the Power of Stable Teams with Twitter’s SVP of Engineering
“One of the most scalable organizations in human history was the Roman army. Its defining unit: The squad — eight guys. The number of guys that could fit in a tent.” This is Twitter Engineering SVP...
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The Brain Hacks Top Founders Use to Get the Job Done
Katia Verresen's new client had a big problem: He needed to find 3 to 4 extra hours in his day. This, of course, seemed like an impossible feat for an oversubscribed startup founder, but his ability to...
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Six Friction-Free Ways to Help Your Network Help You
“Everyone at some point has gotten a job only because they knew the right person — and those are usually the better jobs.” This is Patrick Ewers, early LinkedIn director and relationship-building...
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23 Tools to Make Your Feedback Meaningful
I was fresh out of college and had just joined footwear startup AND1 as employee No. 10, when I found myself in a knock-down drag-out argument with the CEO. It was an unusual place to be at age 22 with...
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Crisis Management — From the Man Who Helped Save eBay
Maynard Webb looked out the window to the eBay parking lot. CNN’s van was still there, camped out, waiting for another site-wide outage. By the time Webb stepped in as president of the company in 1999,...
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My Management Lessons from Three Failed Startups, Google, Apple, Dropbox,...
Kim Scott had one thing to do that day. She was going to price her product. It was the year 2000, she was the founder and CEO of Juice Software, and she had blocked off her whole morning to make this...
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