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Top 5 Liner Highlights (July Edition)
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1. Starcraft Ghost: What Went Wrong
- StarCraft, a real-time strategy title that topped PC sales charts
- Huebner took a chance and left for the new venture: Nihilistic
- Ghost would put the player on the battlefield, giving them a view of the universe they had never seen before.
- Abilities like cloaking and swift movement would make the player feel like a combat veteran
- But then it came full circle. It was stealthy, then it felt like it had too much action. Then they needed more stealth. And then what about multiplayer? It became so rough. The Nihilistic team was killing themselves working.
2. Blind Apple Engineer Changing Tech
- It isn’t something where you just do it once, check that box and then move on to do other things.
- But many activists argue that Braille literacy is the key to employment and stable livelihood for blind individuals.
- For Castor, Braille is crucial to her innovative work at Apple — and she insists tech is complementary to Braille, not a replacement.
- I use a Braille display every time I write a piece of code, she says. “Braille allows me to know what the code feels like.
- She’s been working to make the program accessible to blind children, who have been waiting a long time for the tool, she says.
3. Insights in Early Stage SaaS Startup — Nakul Mandan
- What do VCs look for when evaluating Series A stage SaaS startups — metrics or otherwise?
- There’s no science to what gets a VC excited about one startup vs. another
- What macro trends are coming together
- Over time, will there be an opportunity to evolve the product into a platform connecting all other apps that are relevant to its users?
- but investors are looking for companies that can build a sustainable advantage over their competitors over time.
4. Top 10 Tools for the Solopreneur — Dan Makoski
- When you are an extrovert and work for yourself, it’s important to find ways to connect to a social environment
- Their app makes it easy to find, reserve, extend and even unlock the room’s door
- She saves me many hours each week with the exhausting back-and-forth of scheduling, re-scheduling, calling, conferencing, etc
- Eventually I got to a point where I was content with tools like WordPress and Squarespace
- how can you not like a business card business that is called Moo
5. Think Viral Growth is Dead? Meet TheSkimm — Gina Bianchini
- Even Oprah and Reese Witherspoon have pledged their allegiance to what Weisberg and Zakin have created.
- Taking an idea from zero to 3.5 million is no small feat
- A mission only matters if you speak to one person at a time
- The Daily Skimm is the email newsletter that gives you everything you need to know to start your day. We break down what’s going on in the world with fresh editorial content.
- The idea behind the newsletter is that it sounds like your best friend giving you what you need to start your day and be out the door in five minutes.
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