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What is the difference between Design Thinking, Lean Startup and Agile?

Part I of Rethinking Resilience

Faire’s engineering team grew from five to over 100 engineers in three years. Throughout this growth, we were able to sustain our pace of engineering execution by adhering to four guiding principles.

…the secret of Backcasting

Dear readers, Building a new growth team is hard. You have to figure out the macro organizational issues – how it fits in with marketing, product, and other functions – as well as the micro, like how…

Your company might be eager to innovate, but you'll want to have a strategy in place to govern the prioritization of ideas - and avoid chasing shiny objects.

Paris-based VC Quantonation has closed a €220M deep-tech fund to back quantum and physics-first startups across Europe and beyond.

Venture capital has long avoided ‘hard’ sectors such as government, defence, energy, manufacturing, and hardware, viewing them as uninvestable because startups have limited scope to challenge…

India’s $1.1B fund-of-funds will invest through private VCs to support deep-tech and manufacturing startups.

Kembara closes a €750M first close toward its €1B deep tech growth fund to back later-stage European startups in deep tech.

The OpenAI mafia: 15 of the most notable startups founded by alumni

The decade of centicorns: why scaling to $100B is the new normal Ideas / Points…

Discover essential tips for starting and running a successful business—from planning and finance to digital marketing and resilience—in this comprehensive entrepreneurship guide.

“Who’s it for?” is not simply a question about your target customer. Milton Friedman offered to let us off the hook–the only thing the work is for is to maximize shareholder…

Three months after DeepSeek, what’s changed for AI founders? Scale still matters –…

Every now and then, a Silicon Valley startup launches with such an “absurdly” described mission that it’s difficult to discern if the startup is for real

These startups have fascinating new technologies, business models, founder stories or are pushing an industry forward in exciting ways.

The list includes Elon Musk’s xAI, which is already valued at a staggering $24 billion, as well as a good number of other AI startups.

For the 11th year in a row, we rounded up 30 essential company-building insights for startups to lean on in the coming year, no matter the climate.

We asked top hiring managers and startup leaders to share their favorite questions for interviewing management candidates.

«You’re not looking for a mediocre manager to lead a team — you’re looking for someone exceptional. So ditch the rudimentary questions and dig deeper. »

How to think about, develop, and improve your homepage

«In a competitive framing, you’re naming an enemy that you’re seeking to replace»

A re-broadcast of our episode featuring Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman in conversation with his Blitzscaling co-author Chris Yeh. In this episode (originally recorded in May 2022), Hoffman and