Startup Stories

I would put window washing fairly high (so to speak) on the list of jobs it makes sense to automate. Certainly the gig qualifies as both dirty and dangerous —…

Andy Stinnes, general partner at Cloud Apps Capital Partners, leads early-stage investments in cloud businesses and serves as active board member and adviser, offering operational support for portfolio companies based…

Being a stay-at-home parent doesn’t mean you can’t be a small business owner. In fact, there are plenty of non-ecommerce businesses that you can start. Below, we will discuss some…

Gamification and social hooks have become cornerstones across every category of consumer apps these days, and today one that’s using these to build out a new e-commerce platform in Europe…

Island, a Dallas-based startup that built a secure browser for the enterprise, has raised $115 million in a Series B round, valuing the company at $1.3 billion just weeks after…

RapidAPI, the startup that has built a platform that helps businesses find and integrate third-party APIs, as well as manage their own usage of their own internal APIs, has picked…

As an investor and a recent product manager, I have encountered many companies that failed and some that succeeded at their product-led growth (PLG) efforts. The PLG journey is never…

Security evaluation of a web application is a continuous process. With every version of the application comes new vulnerabilities. Even if an application is not updated with new features, it…

Sophie Alcorn Contributor Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur…

Not everyone has a high school diploma. Those who don’t face more barriers than those who do. In fact, three years ago in the United States, 44.6% of high school…