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From Alpha to Acquired: The product, growth, and business model journey
This is the thirteenth part of my startup series. Here, I dive into Megacool's product evolution, tackle our business model challenges, and share our…
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How we got acquired: Joining the winning pie
A deal happens quickly or not at all.
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Our Roller Coaster $1.6m Seed Fundraise
Failed FOMO fundraising turned around in the eleventh hour.
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First time fundraising: What I wish I knew then
I'm bringing you into my raw and vulnerable experience fundraising for the first time.
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Our Bootstrapping Hustle
"Wow, that's the best bread I've ever tasted!
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From Idea to Live Product
In the fall of 2015, our startup journey was marked by landing on Onboard as our billion-dollar startup idea after running ten hackathons, the…
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Silicon, Surf, and Startups: How we built our co-founder team
With two, we dreamt. With three, we soared.
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Content Marketing Magic: Our Journey to Validate the Megacool SDK
Since 9 out of 10 startups fail, we spent the 2015 summer running 10 hackathons to find and pursue our billion-dollar potential startup idea. We had…
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Hackathon 8-10: Wow, that’s megacool!
Since 9 out of 10 startups fail, let's do 10! This is the sixth post in the Megacool Series covering the last three hackathons where our relentless…
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Hackathon 4-7: The messy middle
Since 9 out of 10 startups fail, let’s do 10! This is the fifth post in the Megacool Series about the middle four hackathons which was truly the messy…
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Chasing Hackathons: From AI Travel Agent to Photo Management Adventures
Since 9 out of 10 startups fail, let’s do 10! This is the fourth post in the Megacool Series about the first three hackathons, which challenged our game…
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Embracing Failure – How we tested 10 different startup ideas over 10 weeks
Since 9 out of 10 startups fail, why not make 10? This is the third post in the Megacool Series about the method we used to run 10 hackathons to find…
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