Just chatted with an entrepreneur that has gotten himself into a bit of trouble. When he started his company, all of his cofounders took C titles. He was CEO, his best friend and co-founder was CTO, and their marketing friend became CMO. That was 2 years ago.
Sortfolio, our visual directory of web designers, has been helping companies find web design firms (and helping web design firms find clients) since October of 2009. Sortfolio works It’s been working quite well for people. In a recent survey we conducted, 45% generated new business th…
One of my favorite parts of the startup community is that we generally all acknowledge that we’re not playing a zero sum game. We create value by creating new markets and disrupting old, inefficient markets. Sure, we compete against each other as well, but in general, the communal spirit of entrepreneurship is a…
We’re thrilled to announce that, starting today, Asana is openly available to everyone.
Hi Mike, I’m one of your customers. We don’t really know each other. We’ve chatted at a few events, you’ve covered some of my antics, but I’m mostly just a guy who reads TechCrunch a lot. I find it’s a pretty good place to see what’s important in the industry. And you and your team do some damn fine reporting on…
A bootstrapped developer doubled his software price from $9.99 to $19.99 and saw sales increase tenfold — proving that customers still equate cost with quality.
by Paul Hontz
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups
We've joined forces with Insight.io to add semantic code search (built on Elasticsearch) to our roadmap.
Braintree’s Bryan Johnson will answer your questions in the comments section. In 2003, Bryan Johnson (right) was hired for a commission-only job selling credit card services to businesses. “I was broke,” says Johnson. “The job was brutal. Business owners were tired of the industry’s decep…
Exit Interview is a Signal vs. Noise series that talks to founders to see what happens after companies get acquired. Webshots Webshots has been acquired multiple times. Webshots Founder Nick Wilder: Webshots has quite a sordid history: we sold it to Excite@Home in 1999, they went bankrupt, w…
I met recently with a friend of mine who has been talking about leaving Google for the last 3 years. Every time I see him he says he is just "waiting for a great idea" to leave to start his own company. I expect him to do what a lot of people do - stick around Google for another 6-24 months, and then join someone…
Updated January 23, 2026 | Mobile App Performance Tests | Analyzed by Alex Chen, UX Specialist From a Mobile App Developer's Perspective At Endloop, we've
One of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make is not understanding the relationship they have with their investors. At times they confuse VC’s with their friends. Lets Go to Lunch At Rocket Scienc…
