Five questions for Brit Morin — Brit Morin is the founder of Brit + Co, an online media and e-commerce platform that provides tools to teach, inspire, and enable creativity among women and girls. Brit sits down with Google Ventures to share the lessons she has learned through founding her company. 1. What is the most important thing you’ve learned as a founder? “A/B test everything. It’s…

Five questions for Ryan Hoover — Ryan Hoover is the founder and CEO of Product Hunt. In the last edition of Five Questions, Kevin Rose mentioned Ryan as an expert at helping companies get noticed. …

Five questions for Kevin Rose — Kevin Rose is the co-founder of North Technologies. He was also a general partner at Google Ventures and the founder of Digg, Milk, Revision3, and Pownce. Kevin sits down with Google Ventures to share the top lessons he has learned as a founder and investor. 1. What is the most important thing for a first-time entrepreneur to learn? “Bringing down those personal…

Five questions for Stacy Brown-Philpot — Stacy Brown-Philpot is the chief operating officer of TaskRabbit, where she’s responsible for scaling and expanding the marketplace. Before TaskRabbit, she spent nearly a decade leading global operations for Google’s flagship products. She served as Head of Online Sales and Operations for Google India and opened the office in Hyderabad…

Take a look at Intro, a new digital business card from GV portfolio company About.me. Using the Intro iOS app, you can easily share your contact info and your About.me page via your phone when you meet a contact. Check out the video above to hear the co-founders of About.me, Tony Conrad and Ryan Freitas, talk about their vision for Intro.

In this profile, CEO and co-founder Greg Hong reveals Reserve, a Google Ventures-backed company that wants to reinvent the way you dine at local restaurants. Reserve’s digital concierge service is focused on making every step of the dining experience better for you, and better for the restaurant, handling booking, payments, and even the tip. Check out this video to learn more about how Reserve works.

When it comes to messaging, we live in a fragmented world. And it’s seemingly getting worse each day with every new app becoming a potential new messaging channel. Our SMS, Facebook Messages, WhatsApp messages, Snapchat messages, Slack notifications, Lines, and more are spread out across different apps. …

In this Google Ventures profile, Blue Bottle founder and CEO James Freeman shares his vision for Blue Bottle at Home, a new e-commerce destination and coffee subscription service for customers. Following the acquisition of LA-based startup Tonx earlier this year, Blue Bottle and its new director of digital products, Nik Bauman, are focused on bringing hospitality and personalization to the experience of buying coffee online. As Freeman explains, Tonx brought its specialty coffee subscription service and technology talent to the Bay Area-based coffee roaster. Here’s an inside look into the launch of Blue Bottle at Home.

When talking to Product Hunt creator Ryan Hoover, you can instantly feel his genuine entrepreneurial passion for startups and technology. That passion inspired him to launch an email list for conversations about product launches in the tech world. Flash forward nine months and Product Hunt is now the go-to community for conversation focused on product launches, connecting founders with VCs and consumers.