Launching a startup is hard; with or without funding, experienced or not – but, if there was one thing that might just separate the top founders from the pack, it’s understanding the value of time. Imagine this, when Instagram blew past 1,000,000 downloads they still had just a 13 person team… THIRTEEN! How…
Traditionally, only big companies with large marketing budgets have been able to build shiny, high-functioning apps. Individuals and small businesses make do with clunky, low-end apps, if they bother at all. The future is micro: “Draftbit and other platforms are creating this ability to create apps for small numbers of people,” says Brian Luerssen,…
Founder and CEO of App-building platform Draftbit which makes niche app ideas a reality by giving individuals and businesses the power to make apps without a big budget or team of engineers. Enterprises can use Draftbit to create specialized internal apps, while individuals and small businesses can create personalized networks, apps for events or apps…
Co-founder and CTO of Patreon a platform that fosters deeper connections between artist and fan, building communities where artists can create purer content and fans can directly support them. In recent years, Patreon has seen its average pledge amount increase by 20 percent. Patreon’s first successful artist was co-founder and musician, Jack Conte, who raised…
Patreon fosters deeper connections between artist and fan, building communities where artists can create purer content and fans can directly support them. In recent years, Patreon has seen its average pledge amount increase by 20 percent. Patreon’s first successful artist was co-founder and musician, Jack Conte, who raised several thousand dollars in just a few…
Yong Kim, the founder of Wonolo (stands for “Work Now Locally”), set out to create a platform to bring power back to today’s workers. After closing a Series C funding round of $32 million in November 2018, his company is set to lead the wave, empowering freelance and project workers. Yong joined the podcast to…
Most childcare providers only offer care for relatively long chunks of time — think four hours or more. For parents, it’s hard to find affordable options for an hour or two to take a break or run errands. Nannies and stay-at-home parents who want to earn extra money looking after other people’s children struggle…
As their name suggests, Programmatic Mechanics have shunned the all-rounder label in favor of perfecting their niche. They run programmatic advertising campaigns for companies and agencies that don’t want to handle this specialized type of marketing in-house, but still want all the benefits. In programmatic advertising, computers analyze data to determine where an ad…
Only about 10 percent of tech investments deliver what they promise. Robert Blackwell, Jr., founder of consulting firm Quant16, believes applying the principles of quantitative trading to these investments could solve that problem. Quant16 helps investors quantify the value of a business to make data-driven decisions on where to invest and how to measure…
Technori’s Scott Kitun spoke with Travis Hedge, co-founder of Vouch, which provides business insurance for startups Most repeat founders get commercial insurance when a company is formed, but zero first-time founders get business insurance that early on. One major reason why it’s neglected by new entrepreneurs is because it’s hard to do Vouch…