10 Stories Of Super Successful Tech Start-Ups and Founders
Today technology is booming again and there are thousands of new tech companies launched every single month in the US. Some of them make it big, and some of them just don’t. This is how things in business go. Because this site is mainly about great business ideas and entrepreneurs, we have researched many of the new ventures. So, here is how we decided to make a list of 10 of the most successful and relatively new technology startups. each one of them is built around a great and fresh business idea, so it’s worth reading a sentence or two about all of them.
The logo of Asana
Asana
Slogan: Teamwork without email
Website: http://asana.com
Founders: Dustin Moskovitz and Justin Rosenstein
Funding: Angel investors, who provided around $10.2 in starting capital.
Started where: San Francisco
What they do: Asana has developed a web platform, which main function is to improve the way teams and their members communicate and collaborate with each other. It was developed by Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz is one of the founders of Facebook. Both he and the programming wiz Justin Rosenstein previously worked on improving the productivity of employees at Facebook.
The logo of Cloudera
Cloudera
Website: cloudera.com
Founders: Amr Awadallah, Jeff Hammerbacher, Mike Olson
Started when: 2009
Funding: $76 million in venture capital
Started where: Palo Alto, California
What they do: Cloudera’s main activity is developing and improving Hadoop – an open source application that is the core of the visitors’ analysis engine of the biggest websites in the world. They play with the biggest and most popular names on the web. They claim that more than 50% of the company’s programming output is donated upstream to various Apache-licensed open-source projects like Apache Avro, Apache Hive, and some others.
The logo of Sendgrid
SendGrid
Website: sendgrid.com
Founders: Isaac Saldana, Jose Lopez, and Tim Jenkins
Started when: 2009
Funding: $27.4 million in venture capital, angel investors
Started where: Boulder, CO
What they do: They offer business-to-business e-mail delivery service. They manage various kinds of email messages including shipping notifications, friend requests, sign-up confirmations, newsletters, and others. The company is currently booming, it has been growing by 10% monthly for some time now and delivers more than 3 billion messages monthly.
Nicira Networks
Website: nicra.com
Founders: Martin Casado, Nick McKeown, and Scott Shenker
Started when: 2007
Funding: around $90 million
Started where: Palo Alto, California
What they do: They offer a service called network virtualization, which is combining hardware and software resources into just one, software-based administrative entity, called a virtual network. Martin Casado was the inventor of this new technology and according to him, it will change the way how people make networks.
The logo of Numecent
Numecent
Website: numecent.com
Founders: Osman Kent, Arthur Hitomi
Started when: 2009
Funding: $13.6 million in venture capital
Started where: Irvine, California
What they do: Numecent develops a technology platform that hosts and delivers software applications in the cloud, using virtualization technology. In simple words, this technology allows applications that are installed in the cloud to work as they are installed on your local PC, so you don’t need to buy a full license for software or to have big computing power to run certain applications.
Romo robot reading…
Romotive.com
Website: romotive.com
Founders:
Started when: 2010
Funding:
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What they do: Romotive are the developers of Romo – a robot that uses your Android phone or iPhone as a brain. This actually is one of the most innovative companies I have read about recently and their business idea is great. For just $150 you can buy the wheels and body of your robot, then you just need to plug in your smartphone and it gets alive. The robot drives around, talks, and can even learn different things.
Path.com
Path.com
Website: path.com
Founders: Dave Morin, Shawn Fanning, Dustin Mierau
Started when: 2011
Funding: around $60 million in angel funding and venture capital
Started where: California
What they do: Path is a new and innovative idea, it is an entirely mobile social network. Until I read about them, I haven’t heard about something like that. Path actually is social networking photo sharing and messaging mobile service developed mainly for mobile devices. The service makes it easy for users to share stuff with their friends and family members on mobiles.
The logo of Dwolla
Dwolla
Website: dwolla.com
Founders: Ben Milne, Shane Neuerburg
Started when: 2008
Funding: $1.31 million initial funding
Started where: Des Moines Iowa
What they do: Their main mission is to kill credit cards and make payments around the world cheap and easy. The company develops an online/mobile payment system, just like PayPal. Using their platform, users can make payments with just a few clicks and the fee is just 25 cents, no matter the size of the payment. If the latter is under $10, it goes for free. the idea is great because Dwolla is one of the first mobile payment systems in the world. I think they have great potential and I wish them luck.
Zendesk
Website: zendesk.com
Founders: Mikkel Svane, Alexander Aghassipour, and Morten Primdahl
Started when: 2007
Funding: $25.5 million
Started where: San Francisco
What they do: Zendesk makes a great business making it easier for companies to help their customers. They offer a help-desk system, that is used by some really big online players like Facebook, Box, Groupon, Adobe, etc.
The logo of Yammer
Yammer
Website: yammer.com
Founders: Adam Pisoni, David Sacks
Started when: 2008
Funding: $142 million up to 2012 in venture capital
Started where: San Francisco
What they do: Yammer offers a solution making it easier for employees to communicate with each other. It is a Private Social Network for Your Company, which is a really cool and innovative business idea. More than 20% of all their users have bought a paid account. By the year 2010, around 70% of the employees of Fortune 500 companies were using social networks. In 2012, the software giant Microsoft bought Yammer for $1.2 billion in cash.
How you can start a successful startup?
Are you dreaming of launching a successful startup? Well, you’re not alone! Starting up a successful business is a dream come true for many entrepreneurs. Making it a reality, however, requires careful attention to detail and dedicated hard work. Here are some tips to get you started on the right path.
1. Do your research. Researching the market is essential for any entrepreneur looking to launch a successful startup. Get to know your target audience, product or service offerings, and competitors – think of it as conducting market analysis. This assessment will give you an idea of what the landscape looks like and help inform decisions around marketing strategy and product design. Additionally, research should be conducted into local business regulations and the legalities of setting up a business in your chosen field.
2. Have a clear plan. After you have thoroughly researched your chosen industry, prepare a detailed business plan that outlines goals and objectives for your startup, including financial projections and marketing strategies for consumer conversion. This plan should also include pricing structures, competitive assumptions and long-term sustainability plans with measurable outcomes that will tell you if you are on track or need to make adjustments to your approach.
3. Secure finances & resources. Money is crucial when launching any startup venture so be sure to properly cost out all necessary expenditures related to getting the business off the ground including supplies & materials necessary for production of goods/services, legal advice & paperwork filing necessary for registration with local authorities, operational costs such as Rent (if applicable) & office space set-up expenses etc). Make sure you secure enough financial support from investors or other sources to cover all start-up costs prior to beginning operations in order to avoid disappointment later on down the line when funds run dry before crucial milestones are reached due to inadequate planning ahead of time during preparation stages of setting up shop!
4. Develop relationships with potential partners/suppliers. Start building relationships with potential partners/suppliers during your research stage so that when it comes time for production or ordering supplies/raw materials you have an existing relationship ready for use without having to start from scratch – this contact network can make things easier when negotiating prices or other terms related upstream! It’s also important throughout the process not just within pre-launch preparations but beyond them too as managing relationships are key in maintaining strong levels of customer satisfaction which is what drives growth over just conversions alone!
5. Set up IT/Business systems & processes early on: Setting up IT/Business systems & processes should be one of the first steps taken once starting operations is imminent – these will handle everything from customer service requests through order fulfillment services so making sure these are in place before opening can take away a lot of early teething problems associated with new businesses while allowing more focus on developing strategies rather than fixing up unexpected issues caused due lack of good planning beforehand!
6 . Test total Solution objectively: Test Total Solution on objective criteria like user experience; scalability; performance etc., make sense? Build minimum viable product but test it against its competitors before launching full scale operation – focus user tests during initial stage rather than trying everything at once as this reduces time needed for feedback as well weeds out features which may not have worked instead waiting until after launch date (which would equate too much wasted time& resources if failed).
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