Company Building
StackHawk Blueprints: Your APIs Are Under Attack. This CEO Designed the Solution Engineers Actually Want to Use.
Costanoa’s BuilderOps Blueprints help early-stage start-ups build successful foundations. Through this series, Costanoa's BuilderOps team interviews founders and start-up leaders, sharing their learnings to help others build their companies faster and better. Costanoa is an early-stage VC firm backing company builders across data, dev, and fintech.
Company Building
Zentist Blueprints: Prioritize Customer Feedback and Community by Launching a User Conference Early
Company Building
ForceMetrics Blueprints: This veteran FBI agent’s technology just might elevate trust in public safety
Company Building
MARKET Product Fit: Part 2
Company Building
Delphina Blueprints: Freeing Data Scientists to (Finally) Focus on the Deep Work
Company Building
Product Market Fit (PMF) is dead: for early stage startups, it’s MARKET Product Fit
Company Building
10 Ways VC Operating Teams Can Add Value to Early-Stage Companies
Company Building
Costanoa’s First 10 Years: What a Long (and Short) Strange Trip It’s Been
Company Building
Layoffs Are Hard and They’re Coming for Many. Don’t Forget to Be Human About It.
Company Building
Aggregation as a Web3 Identity Stop-Gap
Company Building
A Novel Approach to Web3
Company Building
Five Lessons Learned at Inflection
Company Building
Taking Retail to New Heights: Why We Love Leap
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Cyberhaven: Reinventing Enterprise Data Protection
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Our Ambition: Best Supporting Actor
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Simplifying Online Payments in LatAm: Why We Love Plug Pagamentos
Fresh perspectives,
diverse ideas.
At Costanoa, we believe the best guidance is hard-earned and shared humbly. Perspectives is where we reflect on what we’ve learned alongside founders — the inflection points, tough calls, and breakthroughs that define the path from idea to impact.