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Hiring The Wrong Person Is Far Worse Than Waiting For The Right Person – The ZocDoc Interview
October 1, 2011, No comments
ZocDoc is a free online service which allows patients to book appointments at doctors and dentists instantly. Today we have the co-founder and CEO of ZocDoc, Cyrus Massoumi, for an interview on The Startup Project.

Building a Company Around Email – The InboxFever Interview
September 30, 2011, No comments
InboxFever is a TechStars 2011 company which aims to make it quick and simple for anyone to build email-powered applications. The service has formed a strong user-base since launch, and today we are lucky enough to have the co-founder of In ...

An Interview with TechStars Graduate FullContact
September 16, 2011, No comments
FullContact recently raised $1.5 million in funding following their participation in the TechStars startup accelerator. The service offers an API which allows developers access to its database of more than 100 million contact records to pro ...

The Hipmunk Story – An Interview with Adam Goldstein
September 16, 2011, No comments
Hipmunk is an exciting new travel search site which takes the distress out of travel-planning. The service has received more than $5 million in funding, and has grown incredibly quickly to become one of the most popular travel search sites ...

The Road to Entrepreneurship – An Interview with Dan Shipper
August 8, 2011, No comments
Dan Shipper is a student from the University of Pennsylvania who has created the popular webapps WhereMyFriends.be, ReadStream and DomainPolish. We invited Dan to have a chat on The Startup Project to share his story, and to offer some grea ...

Naming Your Product – The BugSense Interview
August 4, 2011, 2 Comments
Bugsense is a tool for developers which collects and analyzes crash reports from mobile applications on Android and iOS. It provides developers with vital insights on the performance of their application, and has proved hugely successful, g ...

Stay inspired, not on auto-pilot – An interview with Fantastical’s Founder
July 3, 2011, No comments
Fantastical is an all new calendar for Mac, which works as a (beautiful) front end for iCal, Outlook or Entourage. It offers one of the most well designed user interfaces of any Mac application on the market. To share the background story o ...

How changing the name of my webapp quadrupled signups.
June 15, 2011, 16 Comments
The name of a product often means a lot more than many people realize: it plays a major role in determining both the quantity of media coverage that the product receives, and in shaping how potential customers view the application. This is ...

How my startup launched to 50,000 daily pageviews with just a few emails.
June 11, 2011, 6 Comments
The launch of any startup is often the most important factor in determining the success of the product in the short-term, and consequently it's vital that it is done successfully. Today we are sharing the story of a Windows software develop ...

How I doubled the price of my software product – and sold ten times as many copies.
June 10, 2011, 44 Comments
Decreasing the price of your software product doesn't necessarily mean you will sell more copies, and increasing the price certainly doesn't mean you will sell less: today we are sharing the story of a Windows software developer who, by inc ...