Culture and Leadership in Startups: Lessons from the Founder Post date October 31, 2025 Post author By Evgeny Pavlov Post categories In company-culture, entrepreneurship, founders, leadership, remote-work, startup-culture, startup-lessons, team-building
The Night I Learned My Idea Wasn’t Original — and Why It Saved My Startup Journey Post date October 2, 2025 Post author By sada Post categories In competitor-intelligence, enterpreneurship, startup, startup-advice, startup-journey, startup-lessons, startup-stories, web-development
Building a Great Product at a Bad Time: Our First Venture Into B2B Post date October 1, 2025 Post author By Jane Fisher Post categories In b2b, b2b-saas, female-founders, founder-stories, healthcare, immigration, startup, startup-lessons
Why I Only Design Mobile Apps for One Type of Client Now Post date September 26, 2025 Post author By Tanya Donska Post categories In app-failure, design, design-mistakes, mobile-app-design, mobile-development, product-design, product-strategy, startup-lessons
Cracking the Code: Lessons I Learned About VCs, Pitch Decks, and Building a Product Mindset Post date September 21, 2025 Post author By Evgeny Pavlov Post categories In building-startups, founder-investor-relationship, founder-lessons, global-mobility, hackernoon-top-story, product-mindset, startup-lessons, venture-capital
10 Lessons I’d Keep in Mind If I Were to Start a Startup Again Post date September 10, 2025 Post author By Tejas Sharma Post categories In founders, make-money-online, Small Business, startup, startup-lessons
Winding Down Olympia. What We Built, What I Learned, and Why.. Post date August 21, 2025 Post author By hackernoon Post categories In ai, ai-saas-idea, ai-startup, ai-startup-saas, life-lessons, startup, startup-lessons, vibe-coding-founders
Marketing Without Borders: 5 Lessons for Going Global (That No Playbook Teaches You) Post date July 25, 2025 Post author By Yuliia Krupenko Post categories In brand-strategy, global-marketing, growth-strategy, localization, marketing, product-marketing, scaling, startup-lessons
15 Common Product Discovery Mistakes I Made (And How You Can Avoid Them) Post date July 15, 2025 Post author By Dinesh Rawat Post categories In benefits-of-design-thinking, lean-startup, product-discovery, product-discovery-framework, product-management, product-strategy, startup-lessons, user experience
10 Things to Do After Your First Win—So It’s Not Your Last Post date July 4, 2025 Post author By Susie Liu Post categories In business, business-strategy, founder-advice, growth, hackernoon-top-story, startup-advice, startup-founders, startup-lessons
10 Things I Wish I Knew About Product Management Sooner Post date July 2, 2025 Post author By Aditya Vikram Kashyap Post categories In agile-mindset, product-discovery, product-management, product-manager, startup-advice, startup-founders, startup-lessons, startups-top-story
“Pitch Like a Boss”: 10 Real Tips I Wish Founders Actually Took Seriously Post date June 27, 2025 Post author By Aditya Vikram Kashyap Post categories In founder-stories, sales-strategy, startup-advice, startup-lessons, successful-pitching-strategies
Tech Leaders Need First Principles Thinking Now More Than Ever Post date June 26, 2025 Post author By Archith Post categories In first-principles-thinking, management, management-and-leadership, people-management, product-management-lessons, startup-advice, startup-lessons, startups
Numbers Don’t Lie But They Can Quietly Kill Your Startup Pitch Post date June 21, 2025 Post author By Aditya Vikram Kashyap Post categories In cac-vs-ltv, ebitda-explained, startup-advice, startup-lessons, startup-metrics, startup-pitching-advice, startup-valuation, successful-pitching-strategies
What Happens When Purpose Is Assumed, Not Discovered Post date June 2, 2025 Post author By Eyu Post categories In business-failure, founder-stories, founders, hackernoon-top-story, startup, startup-advice, startup-lessons, why-startups-fail
Hackathons Are Broken. Here’s How We Fix Them. Post date April 5, 2025 Post author By Mrityunjaya (Jay) Prajapati Post categories In build-bharat-tour, hackathon, hackathons, mrityunjaya-(jay)-prajapati, startup, startup-lessons, web3, web3-hackathon
The $120 Tool That Saved Us $120k—And Nearly Killed Our Marketing Culture Post date March 31, 2025 Post author By Susie Liu Post categories In canva, canva-subscription, founder-advice, marketing, startup, startup-advice, startup-lessons, startup-marketing
The HackerNoon Newsletter: Lessons I’ve Learned as a UX/UI Designer in a Failed Startup (3/13/2025) Post date March 13, 2025 Post author By Noonification Post categories In ai, face-recognition, hackernoon-newsletter, latest-tect-stories, lost-bitcoin, maven, noonification, startup-lessons
Lessons I’ve Learned as a UX/UI Designer in a Failed Startup Post date March 12, 2025 Post author By Kristina Zima Post categories In hackernoon-top-story, programming, startup-lessons, startup-tips, UI/UX, ux design, Web Design, web-development
Here’s What the Pros Don’t Tell You About Clean and Scalable Startup Code Post date February 13, 2025 Post author By Evgenii Lazarev Post categories In don't-overengineer, don't-skip-checks, programming, rubber-duck-debugging, startup-advice, startup-lessons, startups, write-clean-code
Cybersecurity Marketing Playbook Offers 7 Low-Cost Tactics to Hacking Growth Post date January 8, 2025 Post author By Noorsimar Singh Post categories In cybersecurity, cybersecurity-marketing, digital-marketing, growth-hacking, identify-right-microinfluencer, low-cost-marketing, startup-lessons, tech-startups
One Failed Feature Delivery Taught Me All I Needed to Know on Product Management Crisis Handling Post date January 7, 2025 Post author By James Effarah Post categories In crisis-management, customer-success, debugging, product-management, product-manager-story, saas, startup-lessons, systems-thinking
Seven Things Angel Investors Want To See In A Startup Before Investing Post date November 4, 2024 Post author By Leury Pichardo Post categories In angel-investors, attracting-startup-investments, investing, startup-advice, startup-lessons, startups, startups-of-the-year, startups-of-the-year-2024
10 Questions for Cybersecurity Firm Resonance Founder Charles Dray Post date November 1, 2024 Post author By Jillian Godsil Post categories In charles-dray, cybersecurity, cybersecurity-firm-resonance, founder-interview, resonance, resonance-security, startup-lessons, startups
Timing is Important for Startups and Product Launches Post date October 28, 2024 Post author By Paul Debahy Post categories In hackernoon-top-story, product-launch, product-management, startup, startup-advice, startup-lessons, startups-of-the-year, startups-of-the-year-2024
Dear Startup Founders: Beware of Your Minions! Post date October 15, 2024 Post author By Nebojsa "Nesha" Todorovic Post categories In advice-for-founders, founder, founder-advice, founders, hackernoon-top-story, startup-founders, startup-genesis, startup-lessons
Sales Pitch Shake-Up: Part Two—The Pitch Hack So Obvious, You’ll Kick Yourself Post date October 6, 2024 Post author By Susie Liu Post categories In business, business-strategy, marketing, sales, startup, startup-advice, startup-lessons, tech
Sales Pitch Shake-Up: Part One—3 Pitfalls To Pull The Plug On Post date October 6, 2024 Post author By Susie Liu Post categories In business, marketing, sales, startup, startup-advice, startup-lessons, tech, tips
Communities Matter: Here’s How to Build a Great One Post date September 27, 2024 Post author By Leo Ovdiienko Post categories In Community, community-building, community-engagement, community-management, fostering-a-community, startup-advice, startup-lessons, storyby
Meet the Founder of Cascadia Carbon: Alex Wick Post date September 24, 2024 Post author By Cascadia Codex Post categories In alex-wick, cascadia-carbon, cascadia-carbon-founder, founder-interview, founder-stories, interview, startup-lessons, startup-marketing
Feeling Confused in SaaS Advice Overload? Here’s How to Cut Through the Noise Post date September 23, 2024 Post author By Fernando Pessagno Post categories In Entrepreneur, indie-hackers, saas, saas-marketing, saas-startups, startup, startup-advice, startup-lessons
How Mobile Weather Apps Help You Survive the Hurricane Season Post date September 6, 2024 Post author By oleksii_schastlyvyi Post categories In founder-stories, hurricane-path-tracking, ios-app-development, mobile-weather-apps, rain-viewer, rain-viewer-weather-app, startup-lessons, startups
Architectural Foundations for Startups: Translating Business Into Tech Post date August 27, 2024 Post author By Pavel Grishin Post categories In Agile, architectural-foundations, hackernoon-top-story, how-to-be-a-good-cto, software-architecture, startup-development, startup-lessons, startups
Startups Dilemma: Build vs Buy Post date August 19, 2024 Post author By Bhavdeep Sethi Post categories In apm, build-vs.-buy, diy-projects, saas-startups, startup-advice, startup-founders, startup-lessons, what-is-apm
One Month One Dollar – Part 2: What Went Wrong Post date July 26, 2024 Post author By mbv Post categories In entrepreneur-projects, entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship-experiences, one-month-one-dollar, side-hustle, startup-lessons, startup-projects, wantrepreneur
Solve for the Edges and Get The Middle for Free: Innovating for Inclusivity Post date July 25, 2024 Post author By Feagus MacDaeid Post categories In ai, design-thinking, founder-stories, future-of-ai, innovation, legaltech, startup-lessons, startups-stories
My Boring and Simple Job Boards Website Passed $40k 💵 in Revenue 🥳 Post date June 28, 2024 Post author By Rod Post categories In entrepreneurship, monetize-your-project, monetizing-startups, profitable-startups, startup-inspiration, startup-lessons, web-monetization, why-i-started-monetizing
Painkillers, Vitamins, or Dopamine – Which One is Your Startup, and What Strategy Should You Choose? Post date June 27, 2024 Post author By Dmitriy Myshalov Post categories In go-to-market-strategy-how-to, hackernoon-top-story, launch-a-startup, market-size, product-management, startup-advice, startup-lessons
8 Myths SAAS founders should never fall for Post date June 4, 2023 Post author By Stephen Adesina Post categories In myths, saas, startup, startup-lessons
Best startup advice I got from my mentor who sold to Apple. Post date May 1, 2023 Post author By Stephen Adesina Post categories In mentor, mentorship, startup, startup-lessons
Why I Prefer Working at Startup-Like Companies as a Software Engineer Post date July 10, 2022 Post author By Miguel Feliciano Post categories In software engineering, software-development, startup-lessons, startup-life, workplace
Focus On The Problem: When Your First Solution Fails, Simply Start Again Post date November 26, 2021 Post author By Paolo Dotta Post categories In build-a-startup, founder-advice, founder-interview, founder-stories, startup, startup-advice, startup-lessons, the-startup-journey
3 Business Lessons Learned from My Near-Failure Startup Experience Post date November 18, 2021 Post author By Rihards Piks Post categories In business, business-strategy, ecommerce, entrepreneurship, startup, startup-advice, startup-bankrupt-to-exit, startup-lessons
10 Logical Fallacies and Cognitive Biases Blocking Your Creativity Post date November 16, 2021 Post author By Adrien Book Post categories In anchoring-bias, business, cognitive-bias, entrepreneurship, list-of-cognitive-biases, logical-fallacies, startup, startup-lessons, web-monetization
How a Game About Birds Fighting Pigs Got Valued at $1 Billion: The Angry Birds Story Post date November 3, 2021 Post author By Scott D. Clary Post categories In angry-birds, gaming, growth-hacking, marketing-strategy, mobile-app, startup-lessons, startup-strategy, video-game
‘Contemporaries Are Always Good for the Industry’: Vijay Pravin, CEO of BitsCrunch Post date November 2, 2021 Post author By bitsCrunch Post categories In blockchain-technology, founder-stories, Germany, nfts, startup-advice, startup-lessons, startup-strategy, startups-of-the-year
Production Horror Story: How My Startup (Almost) Went Bankrupt Post date October 29, 2021 Post author By Shai Almog Post categories In backend, cloud, cloud-computing, cloud-fails, founder-stories, life-lessons, startup, startup-lessons, web-monetization
“Do what you love and love doing it”: Colby Tunick, ReFocus AI Co-Founder Post date October 28, 2021 Post author By Colby Tunick Post categories In ai-applications, ai-trends, career-advice, founder-interview, founder-stories, future-of-ai, startup-lessons, startups-of-the-year
“Fail faster. Shorten the path to success”: Borys Pikalov, Stobox Co-Founder Post date October 25, 2021 Post author By Borys Pikalov Post categories In blockchain, blockchain-startup, entrepreneurship, startup-advice, startup-lessons, startups-of-the-year, technology, tokenization
Freshworks’ Journey to India’s First SaaS IPO: A Deep-Dive Post date October 24, 2021 Post author By Scott D. Clary Post categories In case-study, Entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, freshworks, ipo, startup, startup-lessons, startups-top-story
How did Grab Beat Uber as the Top Ride-sharing App in Southeast Asia Post date October 5, 2021 Post author By Scott D. Clary Post categories In business-strategy, Entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, grab-super-app-southeast-asia, grabfood, startup, startup-lessons, startup-story
‘Time is the Most Valuable Resource’: Michael Skoblov, CEO of BITLEVEX Post date September 27, 2021 Post author By Hacker Noon Post categories In bitlevex, finance, founder-stories, investing, options-trading, startup-advice, startup-lessons, startups-of-the-year
From Zero to Hero: A Defi Startup Story Post date September 22, 2021 Post author By Stewart Rogers Post categories In blockchain, defi, defi-startup-story, immunefi, projecting-dollar50b-immunify, startup, startup-lessons, web-monetization, zero-to-hero
From Rejections to $21M in Funding: A Founder Story Post date September 22, 2021 Post author By Rui Lourenço Post categories In entrepreneurial-advice, entrepreneurial-mindset, entrepreneurship, expert-interview, founder-advice, founder-stories, startup-lessons, successful-entrepreneur
‘Step out of your comfort zone and don’t be ashamed of your code’: Vedran Cindric, CEO of Treblle Post date September 22, 2021 Post author By Vedran Cindrić Post categories In founder-interview, startup-advice, startup-founders, startup-lessons, startup-strategy, startups-of-the-year, treblle, zagreb
Remote Work is Over, get Back to the Office Post date September 18, 2021 Post author By Courier Post categories In covid19, employee-productivity-tracker, hybrid-work-models, hybrid-work-tools, remote-work, startup-lessons, startups-of-the-year, work-from-home
Go for the “dirtiest, unsexiest problems out there to solve,” say Poplar Homes Co-Founder & CTO Post date September 15, 2021 Post author By Rico Mok Post categories In founder-interview, founder-stories, property-management, proptech, real-estate, real-estate-technology, startup-lessons, startups-of-the-year
Is this New macOS Dock the Answer to Virtual Collaboration? Post date September 14, 2021 Post author By Hacker Noon Post categories In hybrid-work, remote-teams, remote-working, remote-working-tools, startup-founders, startup-lessons, startups, startups-of-the-year
How Do You Measure Success? Downloads, Traction, and Revenue Post date September 14, 2021 Post author By Hacker Noon Post categories In carservice, parking, startup, startup-advice, startup-lessons, startups-of-the-year, tech-startups, technology
How to Take Your MVP From Idea to Launch Post date September 10, 2021 Post author By Paolo Dotta Post categories In entrepreneurship, founder-advice, how-to-build-an-mvp, MVP, mvp-development, startup, startup-advice, startup-lessons