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How To Create A Gif

How To Create A Gif

Creating a gif is ridiculously easy. However, I have a habit of making simple things absurdly complicated. When I first realized I couldn’t…

Leah Stella Stephens 🐀2 days ago

You’re Going to Fail, and That’s Good

You’re Going to Fail, and That’s Good

You’re going to suck. You’re going to screw up. You’re going to make mistakes. You’re going to fail. And you should be thankful for it.

Kenneth Burke16 hrs ago

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Introducing Luka messaging and his fleet of AI friends

Introducing Luka messaging and his fleet of AI friends

Meet Luka — a messaging app that has the one friend you wish you had in every conversation. Want to figure out the best place to eat or…

Eugenia Kuyda3 days ago

In A Web With No Ads, Who Wins?

Would a future without ads be as amazing as we think?It’s 2016 and in between the constant debates around encryption and the future of the open Web, we’re also discussing the future of online ads. Publishers have been putting up ads and users have been blocking them ever since we realized the Web was a fantastic place. ¶ More recently though, the debate has been sparked by Apple adding in content blockers in iOS 9. Not only did it rejuvenate the oft-forgotten debate about invasive Internet ads, but it directly pointed out just how important ads…

Akhil UnnikrishnanMar 20

If you are too busy to lead, you won’t succeed.

If you are too busy to lead, you won’t succeed.

Nothing kills faster than success. It’s the reason I’m always asked: how do you lead managers when you don’t have time?

Dando4 days ago

Are Startups Dead?

Are Startups Dead?

Today, we are closer to 2030 than we are to the year 2000. The events that seem ‘like yesterday’ are pretty old in reality. It has been…

Raj SinghJan 14

Invisible Design

Designing interactions is a series of small events over time. Invisible design binds these events together into meaningful experiences. My…background is in Industrial Design — but I felt stuck in the old way of working, where everything was in silos. Then I joined a young agency where the barriers between design disciplines were torn down. ¶ “Invisible Design is a collection of considered decisions that make a great experience” ¶ Because today physical and digital interactions simply aren’t siloed. There are computers in everything, connecting people, products and spaces.

Raymond BessemerJan 26

Stop fking stressing, your guide to surviving the entrepreneurial lifestyle

Stop fking stressing, your guide to surviving the entrepreneurial lifestyle

When you run a business, you need to lead a healthy, relaxed life. You cannot afford to waste your energy stressing out.

Aline MayardJan 27

One Huge Benefit of Writing Everyday You Would Never Think Of

One Huge Benefit of Writing Everyday You Would Never Think Of

As many of you have realized, about 10 weeks ago I began writing everyday. I’ve done this very intentionally to build my skills and grow a…

Kenneth Burke5 days ago

Adulthood has no intention of being fun

To all the people out there who hit the big 30 and realize the fun times are over: welcome to reality!The problem with being dissapointed by the monotony of adulthood is that we — including myself — believed adulthood would be something great, something truly valuable, the real deal, what life is actually all about. Well — it’s not. When you’re in you 30's, you haven’t married, haven’t hatched a kid or two (but most of your friends have or are getting started), life — for the most part — is pretty dull.

Mary J.Sep 10, 2015

Our Dangerous Obsession with (Life)Hacking

Our Dangerous Obsession with (Life)Hacking

It’s rare that a word with a very negative connotation gets a second chance, but the term “hack” is a prime example of that rare occurrence…

Mike SturmSep 15, 2015

The Founder’s Battle For Mental Health

The Founder’s Battle For Mental Health

Mental health is a fairly new topic, both from a public perspective — who can or should talk about it, and from my personal perspective.

Evgeny TchebotarevJan 9

How I built my Startup on Squads referral fees

How I built my Startup on Squads referral fees

February last year I started doing referral sales on the Squads.com platform. The idea of Squads is to connect remote, on-demand teams to…

Daan AssenJan 28

Twitter needed strategy

Twitter needed strategy

What did Facebook have that Twitter did not? Ben Thompson thinks that it was focus on the news feed and not exploiting it when Twitter had…

Joshua GansJan 27

VC Stationery for Evaluating Startups

VC Stationery for Evaluating Startups

In the startup world, it’s common to poke fun at the “Startup” language and optimistic spin so common in early-stage founder pitches. I was…

M25 GroupJan 28

Spotify is looking for $500 million in funding as it inches closer to an IPO: report

Spotify is looking for $500 million in funding as it inches closer to an IPO: report

Why sharing is caring…sometimes

Why sharing is caring…sometimes

Sharing is caring when you can benefit your customers, your community and your startup — the same way they all benefit from you and your…

KISSPatentJan 27

Announcing the Kapor Capital Founders’ Commitment

Announcing the Kapor Capital Founders’ Commitment

Silicon Valley has no shortage of myths about itself. We like to think that we are an ideal meritocracy; that we disrupt entire economies…

Mitch & Freada KaporJan 21

Why my website is better than yours

Why my website is better than yours

My website is better than yours.

Fox WilsonJan 18

10 Things I Want that Aren’t a Mentor

10 Things I Want that Aren’t a Mentor

I confess, for a long time I was one of those people who said unquestionably that one of the main ways we bring Latinas up is through…

Nicole CastilloJan 19

Why Startups Fail after Product-Market Fit

Why Startups Fail after Product-Market Fit

When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the…

Ziad IsmailJan 21

20 Awe-Inspiring Solo Trip Destinations For Girls In India

Being a girl is a full time task! You are strong, courageous, hard-working, kind, fearless, caring…all rolled into one. Girls deserve…pampering and an ideal getaway from the hustle-bustle and the men of their life. So, I suggest you take that over-due, much needed break with your group of girls or simply with your own-self. The traveler has taken the liberty of listing a variety of places from across the globe that can be your perfect escape. Hop on Ladies & book your Trip! With FROGO ¶ Here’s a combined list for both spiritual and shopaholic travelers: ¶ 1.

Umesh JalanApr 3

How Can You Attract Top Talent As A Bootstrapper?

I’m just shooting off notes from one of the latest events I put together here in Singapore… SheWorx Breakfast Launch at Trehaus Co-Work…with Pocket Sun of SoGal Ventures on 30/3. Don’t expect these to be an incredibly thorough analysis of the talk but rather me trying to encrypt my handwriting off 4 pages of notes. ¶ What you want is a diversified team of talented people. If you are like me, bootstrapping your start-up this is difficult to do with little to no money to attract these types of peeps. We think this process look like this.

Casie Millhouse-SinghApr 2

You wouldn’t marry your first crush: The same goes for founding your startup.

You wouldn’t marry your first crush: The same goes for founding your startup.

While the above statement might seem obvious to some, the underlying dilemma remains: How do you know whether your idea is the right one to…

Maxime IsabelleMar 26

Freshbooks has just done an interesting post on The Best Invoice Payment Terms.

Freshbooks has just done an interesting post on The Best Invoice Payment Terms.

But the fatal flaw in all their data is that so many of the businesses have a broken idea of payment terms from the outset. They start from…

Curtis McHaleApr 1

6 Reasons why a startup should invest in brand strategy at the very beginning

6 Reasons why a startup should invest in brand strategy at the very beginning

There’s the startup rush. That undeniable startup rush. That adrenaline flow that starts the moment you have an idea worth sharing. An idea…

Emotive BrandNov 1, 2015

Five Ways Working More Slowly Can Boost Your Productivity

Five Ways Working More Slowly Can Boost Your Productivity

You know all about why multitasking is bad and meditation is good. Here’s the cognitive case for why slower might be better.

Faisal HoqueMar 31

At the Intersection of Machine Learning And Human Intuition. Google Brand is the Winner

At the Intersection of Machine Learning And Human Intuition. Google Brand is the Winner

Courtesy Google’s AlphaGo Victory. Do you agree?

Karthik RajanMar 16

Why I Built Snack (iOS app) … and a Update About Why I’ve Pivoted into Chat

Why I Built Snack (iOS app) … and a Update About Why I’ve Pivoted into Chat

It is 5:45am. I’m sitting at the dining table waiting for the water to boil. I could be any kitchen, waiting for water to boil…

Jon LiMar 30

I couldn’t agree with this more.

I Co-Founded the world’s largest performance poetry channel on YouTube (ButtonPoetry)… and being another “phoney” (aka the only founder who…I Co-Founded the world’s largest performance poetry channel on YouTube (ButtonPoetry)… and being another “phoney” (aka the only founder who wasn’t a performance poet)… I struggle getting the confidence to post blogs and any longform online communication as I don’t see it as my forte. However, I have things to say, experiences to share, resources to provide, hiding behind excuses is no good. Get up and go…post! 🙌

QueenLearMar 29

Four Steps to The Mindset of a Champion

Four Steps to The Mindset of a Champion

Chase BeattyMar 28

Industry 4.0 For Dummies

Industry 4.0 For Dummies

Industry 4.0 it’s the technological framework intended to transform our manufacturing plants into those “smart factories” able to elevate…

Matteo TalmassonsMar 28

Love this!

Whenever I come across one of them and make the mistake of reading them, I’m amazed about how unspecific they are. They usually say things…Adds an important point to what you’re saying in your article: Most of these life hack articles read like stock material too. All these ‘how to’-lists master the art of giving advice without really giving advice. As in: a hand’s on approach. ¶ Whenever I come across one of them and make the mistake of reading them, I’m amazed about how unspecific they are. They usually say things like “you have to find the way that works best for you!“

Define Your Views, Not Your Followers

I came across something this past week and not world as a creative was flipped upside down.What how to cause this change in me? I told something I did not think was real, I had for amount defined my audience. I was telling ton of possible viewers of my articles, my podcast “Lies Be Told”, and possible future readers of my book “Why Didn’t I Know That?” sorry this is not for you. I had done worst that just in full picture, I told you my followers to do the same. ¶ How do I fix the problem that I created?

Dmitry YelenskyMar 27

Common behaviors of a Startup Founder

The Paleo Diet.Cross-fit or SoulCycle like once a week and then feeling really good about their life choices. ¶ Working during sleeping hours. ¶ Napping during working hours. ¶ Sending each other uplifting techcrunch articles ¶ “Instagram does it this way… but wait Slack does it that way. Ughh no” ¶ Wondering, who are we? What do we do? every 12 minutes ¶ Bullshitting themselves and everyone around them until everybody starts believing it and they raise 40 million dollars

Startup Life SatireJan 27

Wet Dreams of Vancouver

Wet Dreams of Vancouver

Sitting at an overcrowded 49th parallel I’m reminded of the caffeine peddling, downward dog posing, juice truck cleansing, pot puffing and…

Jonas AltmanMar 26

Apple Event March 2016 — Rather Disappointing

Apple Event March 2016 — Rather Disappointing

Yesterday Apple held its first event — or keynote, however you want to call it — of 2016, where it announced new products and initiatives…

Robin BeerMar 22

Startup Drinking Game: Rule #1

Drink every time you ask the developer to fix something in the app, and he breaks something else instead

Startup Life SatireJan 27

Do better, TaskRabbit.

Do better, TaskRabbit.

Dear TaskRabbit,

Nica LangingerMar 23

Phenom, a 500 Startups Company

Phenom, a 500 Startups Company

The Power of Why

Brian VerneJan 27

That Funky IKEA Lamp on Your Desk May Have Just Been Recalled

That Funky IKEA Lamp on Your Desk May Have Just Been Recalled

According to a series of news reports, IKEA has launched a recall campaign release with the help of the US Consumer Product Safety…

Your Legal SourceMar 21

40 Inspirational Quotes to Motivate You When Times are Tough

40 Inspirational Quotes to Motivate You When Times are Tough

Sometimes it can be easy to feel like the challenges our world faces are insurmountable… that the violence, injustice, poverty, disease and…

Christine ParmaDec 1, 2015

Lifting the weight off your shoulders: 6 natural ways to relieve stress

Lifting the weight off your shoulders: 6 natural ways to relieve stress

For the last ten years, I’ve had chronic back pain that would randomly flare up from time-to-time. For the most part, the flareups were…

Annie MaguireMar 22

Walking Into Virtual Reality

Walking Into Virtual Reality

I started the draft of this blog post on Wednesday morning before I visited Facebook’s headquarters to demo the latest version of Rift…

Jacqwi CampbellFeb 25

Why working for a start-up can be nearly entrepreneurial - lessons from a first employee

Why working for a start-up can be nearly entrepreneurial - lessons from a first employee

An “entrepreneur” is deftly described as a person who sets up a business and takes the risks associated with it for profits. When an…

Neethu StephenJan 15

Houston, do we have Product/Market fit?

Houston, do we have Product/Market fit?

Before growth can happen and new markets can be conquered, they need to be discovered and understood. Generally, we would refer to this as…

Tiago PereiraJan 18

Coding For Change

Coding For Change

“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?”

Justine KayJan 18

Ello is now open source by default.

Ello is now open source by default.

(Cross-posted from Ello)

Jay ZeschinJan 11

Why Silicon Valley’s Tech Bubble Will Burst and Where Innovators Will Go

Why Silicon Valley’s Tech Bubble Will Burst and Where Innovators Will Go

Where is the hottest spot for tech businesses and startups today? When you ask most people, they will likely respond with San Francisco or…

Marcelo MarquetiJan 11

Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast

Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast

Every product or business leader understands the importance of having the right strategy. This includes being deeply aware of your…

Dare ObasanjoJan 11

Journey to $1 Million ARR in 9 months — A Startup Story of #HustleMuscle

Journey to $1 Million ARR in 9 months — A Startup Story of #HustleMuscle

Terminus hit $1M in ARR last week. We went from $0 to $1M in ARR in nine months! This post is dedicated to all the “Terminators” (that’s…

Sangram VajreJan 11

Shared Purpose

Yesterday, I wrote about being crazy. It stemmed from something I posted on Facebook earlier in the day.

Tim McDonaldJan 11

Writing modern C++ servers using Wangle.

Firstly, thanks for all the feedback from my first post — Starting a tech startup with C++.TL;DR I show how to build a modern C++ high-performance, asynchronous echo server that can be written with just 48 lines of code. ¶ I mentioned in my previous post that I was able to build a prototype database engine within one day using Facebook’s Wangle so this post explains how I managed that. By the end of this post, you will be able to write a high-performance C++ server using Wangle. This post also serves as a tutorial which will be merged into Wangle’s README.md.

James PerryJan 9

Hackathons for humanity, or for technology?

Us technology geeks can be blinded by the fun and awesomeness of technology, but sometimes we can take it for granted and it can frankly be…inappropriate, particularly when we try to solve problems of people who are not technology geeks. ¶ Last weekend an Early Childhood Development (ECD) Hackathon was organised in Cape Town, and boy was I ready to go, even if it meant bringing my own small child along with a babysitter! Between my two small children experience and love for technology, this was right up my alley! I had roped in a couple of awesome friends with skills including ECD, science, education, coding, monitoring and…

Carolina Ödman-GovenderJun 30, 2015

What VCs look for in an initial company presentation?

My take after 6 months in venture and seeing hundreds of them June 9, 2004, at 6:02 p.m. Jeff Bezos sent an e-mail to his team with the following subject line “No powerpoint presentations from now on at steam.” ¶ The decision was made to avoid laundry list presentations that ppt makes so easy to create. Presentations that lack a narrative might be okay if you are here to present and create the narrative. But when you share your deck for the first time to get a meeting or a call, you are almost killing all your chances.

Arnaud BoucheronJan 9

5 reasons whiteboards are awesome

5 reasons whiteboards are awesome

One of my personal goals set for 2016 is to brainstorm more and think bigger. It so happened that we at Dabble Lab also decided to drop the…

Valera KushnirJan 9

Ode to an Office

Ode to an Office

When I first saw you, I thought you were an apartment. You were all kitchen, wafting the smells of kimchi and tomato soup. You thudded…

Betina EvanchaJan 9

Don’t use Slack?

Don’t use Slack?

When I joined my current company last year, we introduced Slack as the tool to communicate with each other. Of course we have the normal…

Christian HeilmannJan 10

Ivy NguyenMar 74 min read

A Greenhouse for Post-Seed Startups

MIT Economists recently confirmed the elephant in the room that many of us in Silicon Valley have been eyeing: while the number of newly minted startups is increasing, fewer of those startups have gone on to become big, sustainable companies. And no, the rapidly…

Matteo TalmassonsMar 183 min read

A shortsighted animal?

I was just a seven year old boy when I watched Blade Runner for the very first time. I can still remember the feeling…

Matteo TalmassonsJan 194 min read

Mastering complexity with Industry 4.0

I have been an enthusiast of Lean since when I heard for the first time the term JIT (Just…

Kenneth BurkeMar 213 min read

Getting Work Done When Everything Is Going On

You’ve got work. You’ve got family commitments. You’ve got travel. Events…

Leah Stella Stephens 🐀Mar 164 min read

The Robots Have Descended Upon Hammerspace in Kansas City

Before you’ll believe that robots have…

Nikhil KrishnanMar 154 min read

Group Offline Experiences: Why You Want To Escape The Room

I’m fascinated with room escape puzzles. If…

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