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From their mothers' hands to a national market: How a website made it real

Two founders inherited skills, values, and ways of living that were never meant to become businesses until building their websites helped them reach customers far beyond their vill...

These cofounders quit corporate jobs, took on $100K in credit card debt, and slept in a Denny’s—now their $1.2B company...

Wemimo Abbey and Samir Goel, the cofounders of fintech company Esusu, quit their corporate jobs and exhausted their savings on the road to unicorn status.

What These 3 ‘Accidental’ Startup Stories Reveal About Where the Best Business Ideas Really Come From

Slack, Airbnb, Shopify — none of them began the way people think. Here's what aspiring entrepreneurs can learn from them.

From the stage to the future: Where are Startup Battlefield’s alumni now?

We wanted to show you what happens after the confetti falls. We checked in with some of our recent alumni, many of whom have sat down with us on Build Mode: The Founder Survival Gu...

This $40 Billion Silicon Valley Unicorn Is Becoming an Unexpected Founder Factory

At least 30 former employees have launched their own ventures since leaving fintech company Ramp.

This “Crazy” Founder Built a Motorcycle That Beat Ducati — Twice

“Long live passion.” That’s probably the only way to explain this story.Continue reading on SocialBook »

5 founders share the lessons from the Startmate accelerator

From zero to six-figure revenue in 3 months—see top founder lessons from Startmate.

This Founder Spent Hours Copy-Pasting Contracts Into Slides. It Sparked a $100M Idea

Brandon Card left Microsoft, Oracle, and IBM to solve a problem hiding inside every Fortune 500 company. Today, Terzo AI has raised over $40 million and counts the biggest enterpri...

The Genius Ideas Behind How Businesses Started

He Built a Multibillion-Dollar Tech Giant. Now He’s Running for Mayor to Fix a ‘Broken’ City Using a Founder’s Playbook

Cornerstone OnDemand founder Adam Miller turned ADP and Workday—two companies that should have been his fiercest competitors—into his best strategic partners.

What Every Successful Founder Has in Common: ‘They Don’t Stop. They Find Another Way.’

Poshmark’s Manish Chandra didn’t have the playbook, so he invented one. Two industry pioneers on why the obstacle is always part of the story.

He Created a Tool That Lets Anyone Start Their Own Business With Just an Image — And It Has Minted 4 Millionaires Alread...

Nuseir Yassin, founder and CEO of Nas.com, shares his secrets to growth in a new interview.

How one startup turned backers into believers: MAGFAST broke the crowdfunding mold

Picture Kevin. It’s 2014, and on Kickstarter he has just backed the Coolest Cooler, a portable cooler with a built-in blender, a Bluetooth speaker, and a USB charger. Finally, an i...

Advice From the Founders of Slack, OpenAI, Stripe, and More.

How founders who built $3T in enterprise value think. The post Advice From the Founders of Slack, OpenAI, Stripe, and More. appeared first on GTMnow.

The Manual DM Strategy the Glamnetic Founder Used to Generate Her First $50,000 in Sales

Ann McFerran bootstrapped Glamnetic from her bedroom in Koreatown to over nine figures in accumulated revenue. Her first four hires quit on day one.

How to generate winning startup ideas

Startup lore is filled with stories of heroic underdog entrepreneurs with unconventional ideas who silenced their haters, riding market forces that others seemingly couldn’t see, a...

Why 98% of startups fail? A BigBasket competitor’s journey from early traction to shutdown

In this episode of the Prime Venture Partners Podcast, we speak with Sushant Junnarkar, who shares his honest journey of building and eventually shutting down an early-stage startu...

Why Kevin O’Leary Bet on 2 Engineers Who Had Never Built a Consumer Product

How Wombi Rose and John Wise turned a $100 market booth into Lovepop, a $100M custom card empire.

We Started a Startup, Got One Client, and It Broke Us Apart

I want to tell you about the most chaotic, frustrating, and honestly hilarious chapter of my life as a developer. The Job That Taught Me Everything (Except Boundaries)...

400 employees became millionaires overnight when a founder sold his startup for $3.7 billion before its IPO

Seth Goldman Built a Business Before the Market Existed

When distributors said no and budgets were tight, Goldman relied on direct contact with customers to build momentum from nothing.

What Founders Can Learn From DedCool’s Unconventional Rise

A fragrance brand that behaves more like a world than a product line.

What It Takes to Build a Tech Platform in 2026

Legacy platforms aren’t losing to better-funded competitors—it’s the faster and leaner startups taking the lead. The founders of Beehiiv and SpreeAI on what it takes to build and s...

He Crashed On a Friend’s Floor to Chase His Dream and Now Owns a Food Empire — His Advice Will Make You Rethink How You...

How one pizza operator built an empire by ditching the commercials and betting on his own story.