About Smart Startup Daily

Building a company is hard enough without wading through startup hype. Smart Startup Daily tracks the founder world and surfaces the lessons, tools, and trends that are genuinely useful to people building things.

The Editor

This site is edited by Jong Lee, founder of Lightning Apps, LLC. Jong has spent more than a decade building and shipping software, and brings that analytical, build-it-yourself perspective to the writing here. Articles are produced and reviewed under his editorial direction.

As a founder himself, Jong writes about this world from inside it.

What We Cover

• Practical lessons for founders and operators
• Tools and tactics that actually help
• Funding and market trends, in context
• What startup news means for builders

For transparency: we use modern research and drafting tools to work efficiently, and a human editor reviews, fact-checks, and shapes every piece before it is published.

Independence & Publisher

Smart Startup Daily is owned and published by Lightning Apps, LLC; Jong Lee writes and edits in his capacity as editor on behalf of the company. Any responsibility for the content rests with Lightning Apps, LLC as publisher, not with any individual.