On Building Measurable Design Into Your Startup (Lessons From Warm Gun, 500 Startups, Etsy, Instagram, Mint, The Designer Fund)
By Tracy Osborn (Founder & Designer, WeddingLovely) Warm Gun, the design conference run by 500 Startups, was held last Friday in San Francisco. Dedicated to measurable design, Warm Gun advocates design that isn’t just pretty visuals. Instead, design should...
Getting Early Adopters, Acquiring Customers and Monetizing
By Poornima Vijayashanker (Founder & CEO, BizeeBee) I’ve gotten some requests recently to write a post on how we’ve gotten early adopters at BizeeBee and how we got them at Mint. I hate to burst everyone’s tech bubble but there is no secret for getting early...
3 Lessons Learned From Founders That Succeed
By Poornima Vijayashanker (Founder & CEO, BizeeBee) I’ve had the good fortunate to steal a few plays from the founder’s playbook and wanted to share them in the hopes of shedding some light into what it takes to be a founder. Lesson #1 — Be a...