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Jun 5, 2016

The Surprisingly Simple Thing Slack Got Wrong

I’ve been a Slack fan for a while. I was one of the early users of Slack at my company HubSpot (we used it in HubSpot Labs across a small…

Dharmesh Shah

Mar 2, 2016

Growing Startups When the Product Sucks

We have exactly $325,710 left in our bank account.

Ali Mese

Jan 16

Browsers, not apps, are the future of mobile

A common refrain in discussions over the future of mobile is that “eventually, all mobile apps will be iOS or Android apps.”

Intercom

Nov 28, 2016

The concepts of Run & Change approach in Business

Any company eventually runs into a scaling problem. Your current business brings in money, but you need to launch new projects. This takes…

Alexey Pisarevsky

May 25

The cost of an internship

Top financial learning this internship season

Archknow

May 25

The What, Why and How of Mobile App Maintenance

Josiah Humphrey

May 24

What can you learn from gaming?

Which was the last game you played? Injustice 2? Minecraft? or the good old fidget spinner was good enough?

Rahul Bhatli

May 23

Spend Your Money On Experiences, Not Things

Picture this: You’ve just finished working your busiest time of the year. For all your efforts, you receive a nice big paycheck.

Melissa Chu

May 23

The Markets Where Marketplaces Will Never Work

My failed events app taught me that lead-generation businesses need more than just great execution to succeed.

David Bailey

May 23

The Indefinite Path That Leads To Happiness

Hint: there is no destination called “happiness”

Mitchell Harper

May 21

Best Learning Tools for Those with Short Attention Spans

“Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.”

Artem Zavyalov

May 17

Sketch is not a UX design tool

Pauli Olavi Ojala

May 17

How To Get Better Advice For Your Startup

Too many decisions and too little data? Rather than asking smart people for their opinion on what to do — try asking this question instead.

David Bailey

May 16

Be Better: Don’t Be Hooked ™

“all humans are motivated to seek pleasure and avoid pain, to seek hope and avoid fear, and finally, to seek social acceptance and avoid…

Andrei Draganescu

May 15

Waiting for Good Code

a tragicomedy in one act

Alek Sharma

May 12

10 Things That Will Help You Start Living A Surprisingly Fulfilling Life

10 Things That Will Help You Start Living A Surprisingly Fulfilling...

A.K.A How To Be Happy

Josiah Humphrey

May 11

Recovering from Burnout and Depression

Exactly one year ago, I sat alone in the stairwell at my office, and I cried.

Kieran Tie

May 10

We can’t just ‘talk’ anymore.

For all time until the 1600s we just -

Andrew Åkesson

May 9

Why Airbnb Is Disruptive and Uber Is Not

Airbnb and Uber are both high-growth startups — yet only one of them is disruptive. Do you know which one it is?

David Bailey

May 8

How to combat your own psyche

Something most people don’t talk about are the low points they feel in life. It’s a taboo topic to voice those thoughts out aloud. Why let…

Arjun Rao

May 8

How to establish an ‘Innovation culture’

The mindset, the components, the tools

George Krasadakis

May 8

Stop Calling It A Shadow Ban.

In case you missed it the internet has been freaking about Instagram for say the last 12 weeks. What happened? Basically loads of people…

CatCason

May 8

The Passport — Concept

The elegant All-In-One Identity solution for every Citizen.

Siddhant Gupta

May 8

Mobile App Gamification. 5 Main Things to Consider

Audience, using mobile apps becomes more and more demanding every freaking day. No one is going to be impressed by regular, stable, well…

Roman Gaponov

May 7

What I learned starting a brand from scratch

Recently, I set a challenge for myself: Create a product and start a brand.

Hassan S. Ali

May 7

3 steps to kicking money stasis in the ass.

Arm wrestling with the status quo.

Shaunta Grimes

May 6

How to stop checking your email, messengers, and social networks

If you’re reading this article, you may be suffering from the same thing that I endured for a long time: an addiction to constantly…

Alexey Pisarevsky

May 5

Branding 2.0: it’s all inside your primate brain🐒

The story behind transaction and relation brands and how our minds interpret companies.

Fredrik Rönnlund

May 5

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The freelancer and the entrepreneur

The Surprisingly Simple Thing Slack Got Wrong

Growing Startups When the Product Sucks

Browsers, not apps, are the future of mobile

The concepts of Run & Change approach in Business

The cost of an internship

The What, Why and How of Mobile App Maintenance

What can you learn from gaming?

Spend Your Money On Experiences, Not Things

The Markets Where Marketplaces Will Never Work

The Indefinite Path That Leads To Happiness

Best Learning Tools for Those with Short Attention Spans

Sketch is not a UX design tool

How To Get Better Advice For Your Startup

Be Better: Don’t Be Hooked ™

Waiting for Good Code

10 Things That Will Help You Start Living A Surprisingly Fulfilling...

Recovering from Burnout and Depression

We can’t just ‘talk’ anymore.

Why Airbnb Is Disruptive and Uber Is Not

How to combat your own psyche

How to establish an ‘Innovation culture’

Stop Calling It A Shadow Ban.

The Passport — Concept

Mobile App Gamification. 5 Main Things to Consider

What I learned starting a brand from scratch

3 steps to kicking money stasis in the ass.

How to stop checking your email, messengers, and social networks

Branding 2.0: it’s all inside your primate brain🐒