founders stories

Why a startup with $10M in annual revenue took 18 months to get VC funding

Back in 2006, Joseph Heller went to China where he spent the next decade learning about the manufacturing business. Based on that experience he eventually built a startup called The Studio. The idea w

New research shows successful founders are far older than the Valley stereotype

There is a classic stereotype of the Silicon Valley entrepreneur: often a computer science nerd, almost certainly male, ambitious and, most importantly, young — very young. Founders who have been co

Founder Story: Hearsay Social’s Steve Garrity On How To Create A Strong Engineering Culture

Earlier this week, I sat down with <a target="_blank" href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/steve-garrity">Steve Garrity</a>, co-founder and CTO of <a target="_blank" href="http://hearsaysocial.com/"