Founder’s School 133 articles

Marketing & Sales

Paid Ads in Fintech: What Founders and CMOs Need to Know Before Scaling

By Stanislav Galandzovskyi 31 July 2025 5 mins read

Over the last 8 years, I’ve worked with fintech startups at various stages – from […]

Interview

The Most Powerful Room in Startupland? One Full of F*ckups

By Ana Marija Kostanic 17 July 2025 7 mins read

  99% of startups fail. How many times have you heard that line? Probably too […]

Travel Tech

I Scaled Startups Across Continents. Now I Help People Discover Africa

By Marina Cangelaris 16 July 2025 8 mins read

If you told me a few years ago that I’d go from scaling venture-backed startups […]

Interview

We Killed OKRs – and the Company Got Better

By Ana Marija Kostanic 4 July 2025 5 mins read

By the time has·to·be was acquired for €250 million by ChargePoint in 2021, it had […]

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What Does It Take to Land a Client Like Zoom?

By Ervins Grinfelds 1 July 2025 4 mins read

Landing a major client certainly requires a bit of luck. But in our case – […]

Deep Tech

“Many Excellent Technologies Have Failed Commercially” – Let’s Talk About Why

By Ana Marija Kostanic 27 June 2025 7 mins read

As one of Central and Eastern Europe’s biggest deep tech events gears up to land […]

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Have a Broken Team? Look In the Mirror to Fix It

By Anna Liebel 26 June 2025 6 mins read

You are a resourceful, tireless leader. You’ve read enough research, incorporated several frameworks into your […]

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“Germany Said My AI Startup Wasn’t Innovative Enough – So I Moved It to Poland”

By Stefan Gogoll 20 June 2025 4 mins read

When a German funding agency told us that “AI alone is not innovative enough,” I […]

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The Fintech Expansion Playbook: AI Can Scale It — But Only You Can Lead It

By Arthur Azizov 4 June 2025 5 mins read

For fintech companies, expansion is just part of the job. You grow, or you get […]

Edtech

Every (EdTech) Startup Should be Built on Listening Not Guessing

By Alex Bararu 21 May 2025 5 mins read

In 2020, classrooms worldwide fell silent almost overnight. Teachers scrambled to adapt, parents became unofficial […]

Women in Tech

Tales from a Female-Led Startup: Why We Needed a Man to Look Legit?

By Stanislava Ilieva 16 May 2025 7 mins read

The real estate industry has long been regarded as male-dominated, and historically it has been […]

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5 Scaling Challenges Your Business Must Overcome to Grow

By Slava Bogdan 29 April 2025 5 mins read

In the past two decades, the business community saw a surge of unicorns, with over […]