5 Moves That Fueled Evernote's Impressive Growth

With 65 million users, more than 6,500 businesses using its enterprise product, 320+ employees worldwide and $251 million in overall funding, note-taking and data organization app Evernote has come a long way since its core team came together in 2007.

In an ecosystem where most businesses fail, Evernote was able to scale its technology and business relatively quickly, thanks to the vision, experience and intuition of its co-founders, alongside a little bit of dumb luck, says co-founder and CTO Dave Engberg.

Five key strategic decisions enabled the startup to grow early on and continue to influence the company's continued success. Engberg shared his thoughts on the startup's scaling strategies in a recent chat, many lessons of which today's budding entrepreneurs can learn from. Read more...