How to Get 200K Users Without Spending a Dime

No marketing budget? No problem. Harness the power of email to reach hundreds and thousands of users. By Gillian Morris (Co-founder & CEO, Hitlist) First thing I need to say: there is no single thing that will get your app to 200,000 downloads with no marketing...

#TechTuesday: From "I Don't Know" to Full-Stack Code

Desire, design and destiny: how to go from zero to coding hero. By Priyanka Sharma (Co-founder, WakaTime) This post originally appeared on WakaTime. I went to school for Political Science. There’s no logical reason why I should be running a developer analytics...

5 Ways to Know If Someone Is Your Perfect Co-Founder

Enplug founder Nanxi Liu, and finalist at our 2013 PITCH competition, shares her tips for picking the right co-founder. By Nanxi Liu (Co-Founder & CEO, Enplug) This post originally appeared on Startup Collective. A group of successful startup CEOs recently asked...

Why You Should Stop Talking Yourself Out of Launching

What amazing things could you achieve if you stopped telling yourself “I can’t”? By Becky Cruze (Startup Founder) I recently read Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake, a memoir by Anna Quindlen. Quindlen is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and novelist...

4 Advantages of Starting Up With a Co-Founder

Sometimes going it alone just doesn’t make sense and you’re better off as two. By Brittany Hodak (Co-founder, ZinePak) I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but it will not be possible to clone yourself during your lifetime. Major bummer, right? That means...