Walter Thompson

It’s impossible to plan for everything that can go wrong while building a startup. A definitive founder&#8...

Yuval Krigel Contributor Yuval Krigel is an associate at YL Ventures who focuses on de...

For the last 24 months, Thomvest Ventures recorded headcount data for 150 Series A to C enterprise SaaS startups, and we...

Few startups launch with a coherent content strategy. In the early days, every project is a sprint, and there are times ...

When a cat is scared, it may hide under the couch; a startled fish will swim into a dark hole. And when humans feel unea...

There’s no magic formula for creating a winning pitch deck, which is why most of the articles we run on this topic...

I have nothing against the investor class, but sitting in a room with several VCs while I try to sell them on my billion...

If you ask three different people whether we’re in a recession, you could easily get three different answers. As o...

Suzanne Xie Contributor Share on Twitter Suzanne Xie is t...

A few years ago, I was driving in a rural area on the coast north of San Francisco and found myself low on gas. In fact,...

Plenty of companies that launched during downturns went on to be phenomenally successful. During the Great Depression, S...

Pitching a startup to investors without a personal recommendation isn’t a terrible idea — as long as you’ve ...

When the downturn began, many VCs urged founders to slash their marketing spending. On its face, that’s an effecti...

Are you planning to play League of Legends during your next investor pitch? (If so, reading this probably isn’t a good u...

According to layoffs.fyi, more than 23,000 tech workers have been laid off so far this month. For comparison, the site t...

According to layoffs.fyi, more than 23,000 tech workers have been laid off so far this month. For comparison, the site t...

Dear Sophie, I was laid off and I’m on an H-1B. I have enough savings to survive for a while. What should I do if I have...

Are you ready to launch a bajillion-dollar startup? Before you start: Are you planning to build a centaur, a unicorn or ...

We’re encouraged to think of pitch meetings as a trial by fire: If an entrepreneur can negotiate deadly traps and slay t...

As director of Techstars’ startup pipeline, Saba Karim spends much of his time touting the ways entrepreneurs can benefi...

In a previous era, aspiring journalists relocated to New York, would-be actors made pilgrimages to Hollywood, and plucky...

In films, screenwriters always include a moment known as the Promise of the Premise. It’s the part of the story wh...

After staging our first TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco in three years, Slack is much quieter than usual this mornin...

I dislike using the phrase “growth hacking” to describe the work required to fine-tune marketing campaigns and sys...

In the early days of a startup, everyone is on the same page. But there’s no way to know how well a founding team ...

Some purchases provide near-instant time to value (TTV), like buying an umbrella on a rainy day, or hiring a glazier to ...

The demand for some services can be so high, it can insulate their providers against the vagaries of the market. During ...

During a recent Twitter Space, M13 Partner Anna Barber and I looked back at the dot-com crash in search of lessons opera...

During a recent Twitter Space, M13 Partner Anna Barber and I looked back at the dot-com crash in search of lessons opera...

“You had one job” might be funny when a birthday cake decoration goes wrong, but if we’re talking about exec...