Before starting Freestyle Capital, I was a founder for over a decade across two companies: Spinner and Crackle. Despite two exciting exits, the most profound feelings that remain from my founder days are loneliness and stress. Yes I have positive…

When email startup Front's CEO Mathilde Collin decided she was ready to raise a new funding round, the entrepreneur had options. She could seek out new investment firms, or go back to her previous backer, well-known Silicon Valley shop Sequoia…

Brooke Hammerling, the strategic communications veteran that brought us BrewPR, announced her new project today. Dubbed The New New Thing, Hammerling's new communications advisory wants to help startups bring more authenticity to brand messaging…

Sahil Lavingia published the first chapter of his planned book Building A Billion Dollar Company in 2012. Lavingia, who was 19 at the time, had never built a billion-dollar company. Nor would he. The title was aspirational, but at the time the goal…

OF ALL THE tactics governments employ to raise living standards, few stir as much controversy as the minimum wage. Advocates claim that minimum wages help boost earnings in industries with too little competition, and prevent workers from being…