'We Had No Idea What the Numbers Would Look Like'
To get customers to come back, Wayfair co-founder Niraj Shah had to reorganize his 200 home goods websites. Watch video
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Foursquare's Dennis Crowley: 'Our First Instinct Was That We Broke Something'
The Foursquare co-founder describes how he adjusted the app in response to the way people used it (differently than he expected). Watch video
Mashable's Pete Cashmore: 'I Obsessively Looked at the Numbers'
Pete Cashmore founded Mashable in 2005, when he was 19 and lived in Scotland with his parents. Today, the social media news site is read by millions of peopl... Watch video
Buddy Media's Michael Lazerow: 'You Don't Want to Be Too Early'
Long before Michael Lazerow sold Buddy Media, his social marketing firm, to Salesforce.com for $745 million, it took him many months to even get a client to ... Watch video
'Why Did I Stay In When Everything Was Pointing Me to Get Out?'
Stephen McDonnell, founder of Applegate, an organic meat producer, explains what happened after the original bacon smokehouse he bought burned down in 1988. Watch video
'Go Spend $2 Million as Fast as You Can'
Serial entrepreneur Frank Addante knew everything at his latest venture, the Rubicon Project, must scale from the very start. Watch video
ZocDoc's Cyrus Massoumi: 'I Was Not Exuding Huge Amounts of Confidence'
On one day Cyrus Massoumi went door-to-door hawking ZocDoc, the doctor-appointment scheduling site, security guards kicked him out. Watch video
'A Company That Starts in Crisis Gets a Head Start'
GoodData founder Roman Stanek explains what happened when he started to seek financing on September 15, 2008, the same day Lehman Brothers collapsed. Watch video
Yelp's Jeremy Stoppelman: 'What the Hell Am I Doing?'
When Yelp launched in 2004, Jeremy Stoppelman and his co-founder thought they were super geniuses. But the site flopped. Watch video
How John Borthwick Tries to Reinvent Digg
Earlier this year, John Borthwick's Betaworks acquired the lagging social news website Digg. Here he talks about how Digg became a start-up again. Watch video
Ray Kurzweil: 'Users Should Be Passionately Involved in Every Stage of an Invention'
Inventor Ray Kurzweil talks about how he created the first print-to-speech reading machine so blind people would use it. Also an author, Kurzweil's most rece... Watch video
How Rick Smolan Launched His A Day in the Life Photo Books
If not for Australia's then Prime Minister, and an open approach to sponsors, photographer Rick Smolan may not have started the $100 million photo book series. Watch video
Atavist Almost Pulled the Plug Before It Raised Money From Eric Schmidt & IAC
Atavist CEO and editor Evan Ratliff explains how Atavist navigated the early years. Watch video
'We Made a Product Nobody Wanted'
After buying Excel Dryer, entrepreneur Denis Gagnon realized he had to build a better product. The company spent three years (and almost went bankrupt) creat... Watch video
How Education Entrepreneur Chris Whittle Disproved Skeptics
The same guy who created Channel One and Philadelphia's Edison Schools has a new obsession: a global private school he calls Avenues. Watch video
When Gangsters Tried to Extort Brooklyn Brewery
Steve Hindy wanted to avoid corrupt business dealings. But he was tested as construction wrapped up on his Brooklyn Brewery. Watch video
How Brooklyn Bowl's Founder Took Over the Capitol Theater
Peter Shapiro negotiated for two years to land the lease to the Port Chester, New York-theater famous for Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin and Pink Floyd concerts. Watch video
Long Before the IPO: Shutterstock's Formative Decision
To sustain a business, Shutterstock CEO Jon Oringer had to balance his price for photos with his payment to photographers. Watch video
Kayak.com Co-Founder: 'I Wanted to Transfer Empathy Directly to the Engineers'
How Paul English motivates the programmers at his Kayak.com travel site to respond to customer complaints. Watch video
OMGPOP CEO Dan Porter: 'We Agonized & Overthought It'
In 2010, OMGPOP had a million loyal users playing games on its website. But it had to go after Facebook to make a huge hit. Watch video
'As Soon As the Site Is Down, Nothing Matters'
Last year, hackers took down music distribution site SoundCloud for 36 hours. Co-founder Alex Ljung explains how SoundCloud responded to millions of infuriat... Watch video
Entrepreneur Ben Lerer: 'I Realized I Had Been Going to Work the Wrong Way'
When his father, Ken Lerer, sold The Huffington Post, Ben Lerer realized it's not all about the exit. Watch video
Too Sexy? 'No VC Wanted to Touch Me With a Barge Pole'
Cindy Gallop, founder of MakeLoveNotPorn, explains how every obstacle she encounters only proves why she must launch her "real-world" sex sites. Watch video
Path co-founder Dave Morin: 'Why Are We Doing This?'
Adoption was slow when Path--now a fast-growing mobile social network--first launched. Here's how it turned around. Watch video
When Joe Bastianich Bet It All on Babbo
Restaurateur Joe Bastianich and his business partner, chef Mario Batali, took on a massive debt before their first restaurant together--they now have 23--too... Watch video
Risky Business: How the Arab Spring Changed an Investigations Firm
The protests in the Middle East tested Jeremy Kroll, son of investigations entrepreneur Jules Kroll, and his expansion of K2 Intelligence into the region. Watch video
Hacker Alert: When You Know It's Time to Hire Employees
Anthony Casalena's Squarespace was a one-man operation when, late one Friday night, hackers shut down thousands of sites the company hosted. Watch video
'Freaking Out': What Happened the Day Joe Cohen Launched Lore
First-time entrepreneur Joe Cohen talks about what to do when Launch Day inevitably doesn't go according to plan. Watch video
How Thrillist Co-Founder Adam Rich Learned to Cope With Highs and Lows
First-time entrepreneur Adam Rich describes a time when leading Thrillist, his men's lifestyle site, seemed too emotionally fraught to sustain. Watch video
How Jules Kroll Ignored Naysayers & Started a Rating Agency
When credit rating agencies came under fire for their role in the 2008 financial crisis, Jules Kroll, the corporate-investigations pioneer, saw a business op... Watch video
How Twilio Went to Market Without Investors
Twilio, software for app developers, sought funding just as the 2008 financial crisis hit. Co-founder Jeff Lawson's response: "Screw it." Watch video
What a Serial Entrepreneur Can't Resist
When Jose Ferreira's first company failed, he thought he would never start another one. But then he launched Knewton, which makes online education tools. Watch video
Intuit's Scott Cook on Failed Global Expansion: 'We Should've Known Better'
Intuit founder Scott Cook tells what went wrong the first time he rolled out the company's Quicken tax prep software around the world. Watch video
Flat-Out Rejection: Caliper's Hard Early Months
Herb Greenberg, who lost his sight at age 10, developed a test to help employers see workers for who they really are. But four months after founding HR consu... Watch video
Start-up Suicide: When Meetup Risked Closure
Meetup co-founder Scott Heiferman describes the dramatic drop-off in organized Meetups when the company went from free to fee, and how that turned around. Watch video
How a Disaster on Everest Inspired an Entrepreneur
When Philip James founded online wine seller Lot18, skeptics said he would fail. But a disaster on Mt. Everest years before had taught him to trust his gut. Watch video
How Tate's Bake Shop Founder Lost It All & Bounced Back
Kathleen King was pushed out of the first bakery she founded and ran for two decades. So she started Tate's Bake Shop, a direct competitor, and now distribut... Watch video
This Guy Invented the iPod With Steve Jobs
Tony Fadell, the creator of the most iconic product of the last decade--Apple's iPod--talks about the innovations, and missteps, that helped him change perso... Watch video
What Happened When Grooveshark Couldn't Meet Payroll
Grooveshark founder Sam Tarantino wanted to reinvent the music business. But in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, funding was quickly drying up, and he ... Watch video
Paperless Post's Long, Hard Road to Raise Money
James Hirschfeld and his sister started Paperless Post to recreate invitations for the Web. But VCs wouldn't bite, and time was running out. Watch video
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