Founders tips - Issue #78

I’m going to give away all my secrets. Okay, not all of them. Just the ones that have helped me turn my one-man writing shop, Honey Copy, into a six-figure mini-beast that has worked with brilliant…

More often than not, a business blog is designed to bring in leads for the sales team. Unfortunately, many blogs can be lacking what they need for proper lead generation. With these elements, you’ll…

The basic rule you need to follow in order to increase sales and lead generation is to understand your target audience. You need to understand what they want, how they want it, and when they want it…

Here’s what that means for VCs and entrepreneurs.

We recently celebrated a decade (!) of building Thumbtack so I’m sharing a few hard-fought lessons from growing a startup to $1B. A decade ago: Thumbtack had no customers, no product, no money. Our…

I like to joke that SEO stands for “somebody else’s obligation” because it’s easy to point a finger when something goes wrong. Engineers know this pain. Lots of fingers get pointed at them, sometimes by “SEO people."  But, the reality is this: There is no such thing as search engine optimization unless your technical ducks are in a row.

A trend we’ve seen in the financing of startups in the last five years is the “SAFE between rounds” which means raising a convertible note (or SAFE) to provide more capital and runway in between financing rounds…

Blitzscaling promises to teach techniques that are “the lightning fast path to building massively valuable companies.” But it’s not a recipe for success—it’s survivorship bias masquerading as a strategy.