Pinterest’s Unlikely Journey To Top Of The Startup Mountain
Over the past 12 months, I’ve had the pleasure of interviewing some of the Valley’s best entrepreneurs and investors at Startup Grind. People like Naval Ravikant, Kevin Rose, Tony Conrad, MG Siegler,...
View ArticleSteve Blank Teaches Entrepreneurs How To Fail Less
While secretly wanting to be an entrepreneur but working at Electronic Arts, I would sometimes sneak out early and jet to Stanford campus to crash Steve Blank’s entrepreneurial lecture series. Steve...
View ArticleThe Story Behind Payment Disruptor Stripe.com And Its Founder Patrick Collison
Paypal created a cost effective way to safely accept payments 10 years ago, but the web has changed dramatically and accepting payments has not. Enter Stripe, a company that in my opinion is going to...
View ArticleWhy Are Startups Flocking To SF? There’s No More Room In Silicon Valley
A lot has been written about the real estate turf war between San Francisco and Silicon Valley. Most point out that many of the developers these companies target live in the city. The nightlife,...
View ArticleFounders Are Not Heroes. Let’s Get Back To Work
Editor’s note: Derek Andersen is the founder of Startup Grind, a 15-city event series hosted around the world to help educate, inspire, and connect entrepreneurs. He’s also ex-Electronic Arts, the...
View ArticleUnicorns, Banana Suits, and 500 Startups; Just Another Night With Dave McClure
Editor’s note: Derek Andersen is the founder of Startup Grind, a 20-city event series hosted around the world to help educate, inspire, and connect entrepreneurs. He’s an ex-Electronic Arts employee,...
View ArticleShould You Trust Your Gut? The Answer Is Yes.
Editor’s note: Derek Andersen is the founder of Startup Grind, a 30-city event series hosted in 15-countries that educates, inspires, and connects entrepreneurs. He’s ex-Electronic Arts as well as the...
View Article42 Things Entrepreneurs Should Be Grateful For
Editor’s note: Derek Andersen is the founder of Startup Grind, a 35-city event series hosted in 15 countries that educates, inspires, and connects entrepreneurs. He founded Commonred (Acquired by...
View ArticleHow The Huang Brothers Bootstrapped Guitar Hero To A Billion Dollar Business
Editor’s note: Derek Andersen is the founder of Startup Grind, a 35-city event series hosted in 15-countries that educates, inspires, and connects entrepreneurs. He also founded Commonred (acquired by...
View ArticleHiring Great Engineers: Kleiner Perkins’ Mike Abbott Explains How
Editor’s note: Derek Andersen is the founder of Startup Grind, a 35-city event series hosted in 15-countries that educates, inspires, and connects entrepreneurs. He also founded Commonred (acquired by...
View ArticleThe Story Behind Qualtrics, The Next Great Enterprise Company
Editor’s note: Derek Andersen is the founder of Startup Grind, a 35-city event series hosted in 15-countries that educates, inspires, and connects entrepreneurs. He also founded Commonred and is...
View ArticleBing Gordon’s Founder Checklist: Animal Energy, Blind Confidence, And A Toupee.
Editor’s note: Derek Andersen is the founder of Startup Grind, a 40-city community bringing the global startup world together while educating, inspiring, and connecting entrepreneurs. As an Electronic...
View ArticleClayton Christensen Talks Venture Capital, Crowd Funding, And How To Measure...
Editor’s note: Derek Andersen is the founder of Startup Grind, a 40-city community bringing the global startup world together while educating, inspiring, and connecting entrepreneurs. There are few...
View ArticleFrom The Garage To 200 Employees In 3 Years: How Nest Thermostats Were Born
Editor’s note: Derek Andersen is the founder of Startup Grind, a 40-city community bringing the global startup world together while educating, inspiring, and connecting entrepreneurs. I remember when...
View ArticleBuild A Company That Attracts The Next Steve Jobs
Editor’s note: Derek Andersen is the founder of Startup Grind, a 45-city community in 20-countries, uniting the global startup world together through educating, inspiring, and connecting entrepreneurs....
View ArticleMark Suster Tells Founders To Be Authentic, Hire Co-Founders, And Give Before...
Editor’s note: Derek Andersen is the founder of Startup Grind, a 45-city community in 20-countries, uniting the global startup world together through educating, inspiring, and connecting entrepreneurs....
View ArticleY Combinator’s Sam Altman On The Elements Of A Successful Startup
You don’t have to have millions of dollars or the best team possible to launch a winning startup. What you do need to have, however, is passion according to Sam Altman in an interview he gave with at...
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