Unconventional learnings from behind the startup

"Just seven short years before Zendesk made its IPO on the New York Stock Exchange, we were three guys who had quit our sensible consulting jobs to work on what many of us initially thought was a “boring” idea from a tiny loft in Copenhagen. Rather than dreaming of fortune and success, we were making furniture from old doors to save money and wondering how we were all going to pay our mortgages if this gamble didn’t pay off. The reality of a startup is rarely as glamorous as it seems. The typical startup success story tends to centre around young engineers in Silicon Valley working on a sexy new idea backed by VC funding. This couldn’t be further from the truth for us!" Read more

Mikkel Svane Startup Daily 17 Sep 2015