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How This App Went From 0 to 25 Million Downloads in 5 Years

How This App Went From 0 to 25 Million Downloads in 5 Years

The creators of MAPS.ME solved two major issues in creating their popular product.
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Leonard Kim5 days ago
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Ask Yourself: Why Are You Still Reading on Medium?

Ask Yourself: Why Are You Still Reading on Medium?

And why you should not even read this article.
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Thomas Despin5 days ago
5 hot tips for founders from Asia’s top VCs

5 hot tips for founders from Asia’s top VCs

Golden Gate Ventures (GGV) and East Ventures (EV) are two influential VCs based out of Singapore whom entrepreneurs rely on for mentorship…
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Tan Choon Yan CYNov 29, 2015
Surviving the Death of a Start-Up Founder

Surviving the Death of a Start-Up Founder

Ihave been building businesses since sixteen. Over the last decade the ideas, continual refinement, strategy and tactics have all been a…
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Kevin GraceApr 3
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Your Banking Apps Are The Worst Apps On Your Smartphone

Your Banking Apps Are The Worst Apps On Your Smartphone

Transforming how retail banking works ¶ Article has been republished on TechCrunch ¶ Mobile is changing how people work, travel, read…
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Tan Choon Yan CYMar 9
Corporate Fakers, Takers and Makers

Corporate Fakers, Takers and Makers

Imagine if your startup meets with one of the world’s largest companies to talk partnership. You tell them about your latest product full…
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Tytus MichalskiMar 17
Best Sites and Tools to Learn and Practice Design

Best Sites and Tools to Learn and Practice Design

With design a coveted skill today, there are quite a few websites and online institutions that offer classrooms or courses on the different…
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Sami MuneerMar 16
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Corporations Weren’t Designed to Run on Code

Corporations Weren’t Designed to Run on Code

An excerpt from Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity, by Douglas Rushkoff (Portfolio 2016)…
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douglas rushkoffMar 2
Hiring the Ideal Startup Team

Hiring the Ideal Startup Team

In the early days of your startup, you might have heard you should have a hacker, a hustler, and a hipster on the founding team. That makes…
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Stephen ForteMar 2
Free Hardware Giveaway: The Best Content From Startups & Venture Capital

Free Hardware Giveaway: The Best Content From Startups & Venture Capital

Hello Founders & Friends,
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Brandon LipmanFeb 26
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Product Backed Brand

Product Backed Brand

It’s been a busy week at the Structure office. We launched our IoT developer platform yesterday. Along with that we spent some time on…
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Charlie KeyFeb 25

What Product VP’s at High Growth Startups Have in Common

(This post originally appeared on the Mattermark Blog)“I think that the number one hiring criterion for a vice president of product management should be someone who’s done it before — who has executive-level product leadership experience — but I’m often outvoted.” ¶ — Rich Mironov, author of The Art of Product Management and co-founder of Product Camp. ¶ Reading those words from a post he had written about the role of a VP of product management made me think.
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Mike BelsitoFeb 12

The Complexity of Simplicity

When looking at the best products, founders, and companies, they focus on one thing and they work to perfect it and eliminate any areas of…inefficiency. Hindsight will always make us say, I could have made Snapchat, Yo, or a taxi service. ¶ However, true value is not in the engineering or an apps code. It’s in the zen process that the company has had to go through to get the product down to its most simple form. The process to simplicity is often the last thing from simple. You have to navigate dark waters that few have traveled. To achieve simplicity, we must have an extream understanding of the customer and the complexities…
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Brandon LipmanFeb 20
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Lessons from NFL: Merits of Observation

Over my few years of building software for NFL and soccer teams, it was almost always the same conversation with any sports team during one…
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Sami MuneerFeb 14
Lucrative Yet Underserved Opportunity in EdTech

Lucrative Yet Underserved Opportunity in EdTech

A lot of the Edtech innovation in recent years have, intentionally or inadvertently, begun to address the needs of an underserved market …
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Sami MuneerFeb 12
Starting the Twitter Post Mortem

Starting the Twitter Post Mortem

Twitter is a great product, terrible stock. As an investor I don’t try and force agreement on the left and right lobes of my brain.
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Adam TownsendNov 23, 2015
Cold Call or starve. Choose wisely.

Cold Call or starve. Choose wisely.

Whoever you are, whatever you do for a living, you should cold call.
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Adam TownsendJan 20
The Premium Model in EdTech: Aggregators

The Premium Model in EdTech: Aggregators

While Edtech has experienced a rapid growth of investments and a proliferation of startups across the secondary, post-secondary and…
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Sami MuneerFeb 5
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