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Product-led growth

How Learnn has grown to 130,000+ active subscriptions with product-led growth

Manuel Bleve3 days ago

Building a smart basketball hoop

How Paul Anton is revolutionizing basketball with technology

Manuel Bleve24 days ago

Going public

Why be acquired by a tech giant when you can become one?

Manuel Blevea month ago

From 0 to $20M ARR in 5 years

How Guillaume grew Lemlist without raising a dime in funding

Manuel Blevea month ago

Turning an injury into a thriving startup

How Anttoni used personal injury as fuel to build a company and help thousands improve their health

Manuel Blevea month ago

Succeeding where Groupon failed

‘People don’t need an app with discounts for subpar restaurants. They need a motivation product’

Manuel Bleve2 months ago

Building a hypersonic plane

How did Sarah raise $48M? How does Venus Aerospace sell to the government and lobby Congress?

Manuel Bleve2 months ago

Founding, scaling, and exiting Soma

Influencing the press, hacking growth, falling from grace, firing half of the team, and more

Manuel Bleve3 months ago

From zero to 100,000 users

How Don built an AI as a non-technical founder, raised ~$1M from VCs, and grew to 100,000 users

Manuel Bleve3 months ago

What it takes to go mass-market

How to build a differentiated brand without getting stuck with a niche product that will never scale

Manuel Bleve3 months ago

The silent battles of founders

Beyond the hype, beyond the billion-dollar valuations, what is it like to be a founder?

Manuel Bleve3 months ago

From a garage to $50M in revenue

How Jesper went from building speakers in a garage to becoming the CEO of Soundboks

Manuel Bleve4 months ago

Endorsed by Apple: Fares’ secret

A fascinating story about the risks and opportunities of building for new products and platforms

Manuel Bleve4 months ago

Embargo’s secret to low churn

All the strategies and tactics behind Embargo's exceptionally low churn rate

Manuel Bleve4 months ago

Bootstrapping to a life-changing exit

From leaving a job as an investment banker to being acquired by Investing.com in under six years

Manuel Bleve4 months ago

Lessons learned after raising ~$10M

How Will Nitze grew IQBAR to ~$25M in revenue, used Kickstarter to "de-risk" the business, and got into 3,000+ CVS stores within six months of launching

Manuel Bleve5 months ago

This is how you launch a product

How Kim went from pivoting CurlMix in 2018 to making ~$10M in annual revenue

Manuel Bleve5 months ago

From $0 to ~$2.5M ARR in 18 months

The secrets behind Beehiiv's exponential growth and lightning-fast product development

Manuel Bleve6 months ago

The secret to community-led growth

The exact strategies Renji used to build a community-led startup, raise $12M, and revolutionize the remote working landscape through VR

Manuel Bleve6 months ago

10x growth from one customer

How Brandon landed a multi-million dollar deal with a $5B global powerhouse (and got acquired in the process)

Manuel Bleve6 months ago

2,000 leads from content marketing

How Nick Telson leveraged content marketing to be acquired and how he’s doing that again at trumpet

Manuel Bleve7 months ago

Being acquired: Lessons after 3 exits

Andrew Gazdecki's secrets to getting acquired after launching and selling three companies

Manuel Bleve7 months ago

Turning down $500k from Mark Cuban

From Tanking the Sharks’ deal to $2M in revenue: the juicy story of Genius Juice

Manuel Bleve7 months ago

Crushing 140+ competitors with UX

How Ouriel's obsession with UX and customer support made ZenGo stand out in an extremely crowded market

Manuel Bleve7 months ago

$1M ARR with Carta’s growth hacks

How Forecastr plagiarized Carta’s growth playbook

Manuel Bleve7 months ago