Win $150 worth Google AdWords credit for your startup from LaunchBit
June 11, 2011 4:23 pm 12 CommentsLaunchBit is one of TSF’s fantastic sponsors (as seen in our sidebar). LaunchBit helps entrepreneurs get started by walking them... View Article
Author Archives for Paul Hontz
It sucks to build a startup with the “Google Method”
June 8, 2011 3:45 pm 13 Comments“We’re not making any money yet, but once we hit 100,000 users, we’ll be able to break even with ads!”... View Article
The Transparent Startup Experiment: A weekly look behind the scenes of “Time Off”
June 3, 2011 3:34 pm 17 Comments“I love reading stories about startups raising money, launching, or being acquired, but I want to learn how to take... View Article
What It’s Like Being a COO at a Startup, with Jason Sew Hoy of 99designs
May 31, 2011 2:46 pm 4 CommentsEngineers get a lot of coverage in the tech world (as they should) but I’ve been interested in other pieces... View Article
Pitching your startup: Learn how to use a “Hook” to get press.
May 30, 2011 2:18 pm 7 CommentsNews articles are all about stories. A great article creates a personification of raw data into digestible, story-sized bites. For... View Article
How a band got into Y Combinator. The Earbits story (YC W11).
May 27, 2011 3:31 pm 8 CommentsEarbits is a Y Combinator backed company that’s looking to replace Pandora for your music streaming needs. Unlike Pandora, users... View Article
Hacker News and drive by traffic: How to make the most of your startups launch
May 26, 2011 3:01 pm 11 Comments“How are you going to market this?” I asked Entrepreneur X after being being thoroughly impressed by a demo of... View Article
Why Carbonmade decided to bootstrap and go freemium
May 24, 2011 3:27 pm 16 CommentsWhen I was studying design a few years ago, I discovered many of my peers were struggling to get a... View Article
Why two engineers left Apple to build a Flash alternative: The Hype (YC W11) story
May 23, 2011 3:17 pm 28 CommentsHype is an HTML5 Animation Builder for Mac OS X. It allows you to build interactive sites in HTML5 that... View Article
Weekly reader question: How has your startup “failed faster”?
May 20, 2011 4:43 pm 8 CommentsYesterday I spent the day in Grand Rapids, Michigan, checking out The Michigan Lean Startup Conference. Eric Ries gave a... View Article
