The 3rd Annual Golden Kitty awards came down to the wire, literally. Multiple categories were nearly…
Startups need to have a great lawyer, accountant, patent attorney, etc…
Whether you’re familiar with Israel or not, if tech is of any interest to you, you…
“You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to…
We are thrilled to officially announce the launch of Bonfire Ventures, a new Los…
How many “what if stories” are you going to have when you are 80 years old? How many places would you have almost seen? How many opportunities would you have almost taken? If you kind of want something, then you will kind of get it.
To catch ups that drain your life and energy.
You know those moments when you look back and think ‘Did that really just happen?’ My first XPR Vegas experience was one of these rare and precious moments. It seems surreal. To be fair, this is precisely what the experiences are designed for, yet not even I could have anticipated the…
San Francisco, CAJanuary 28th, 2018
Uma das coisas que acho mais fascinantes da vida é que sempre os próximos 10 minutos ainda não foram escritos. Isso significa que você tem a oportunidade de escrevê-los da forma que quiser, e principalmente, tem nas mãos a chance de escrevê-los como a história que você…
Ideas are not truths.
Ideas are wafts of imaginations, flights of fancy, and daydreams of insight. There is never complete certainty about an idea. If an idea were certain then it wouldn’t be just an idea.
“I begin with an idea and then…
While reading Four Minute Books summary of Start With Why, I came across a sentence that really stuck…
In Elon Musk’s biography, by Ashlee Vance, Elon recounts when he interned for the Bank of Nova Scotia (Canada). When he worked there, the Bank of Nova Scotia was holding billions of dollars in debt for developing countries. Musk learned about Brady Bonds…
The following is a blog post written by Andy Wilson, the CEO at Logikcull — a Storm Ventures investment.
Originally published at www.forbes.com on January 21, 2018.
Seven years ago, three visionary business leaders asked the question, “Has the scientific…
As with almost everything you use on a daily basis, emails get quite messy when you don’t organize…
What is the entrepreneurial mindset? I was asked to share thoughts on this topic to a business school class at UMass-Amherst this week.
One part of the entrepreneurial mindset that creates successful businesses is…
There’s a culture war happening today that most people don’t know about. It runs through…
Una empresa excepcional es aquella que atrae, contrata y retiene a profesionales excepcionales. Éstos que no…
It’s called a Reality Distortion Field.
Initially borrowed from a Star Trek episode, this was ascribed to Steve Jobs in the 80s by the Apple engineering team. And Steve was well aware of its effect. Just as reality is fractal, so must the vision be, else it fails.
During the first interview, they offered me a fruit plate and complimented my…
I was 33 when I quit my job. I had a decent job and a comfortable salary package…
I have taken some time to reflect on an incident this week that left me very emotional, but most importantly reaffirmed my view that a better Uganda is not far away, especially if we create more opportunities for the country’s young people!
Updated version at my personal blog: https://www.theyashrane.wordpress.com
It took me close to 2 years to realise, that as a startup founder my real job is neither to acquire customers, nor to strategise the marketing campaign, nor to…
Bu yazımda, Girişimciye Dönüş’ü ortaya çıkarırken sık sık kullandığımız aynı zamanda adımlardan birine de özel araçlar ile eklediğimiz bir metottan bahsetmek istiyorum. Bu metot potansiyel müşterilere doğru soru sormanın incelikleri hakkında önemli detayları içinde barındırıyor. Şimdiden…
Finding the right niche for you is hard.
The “Branding vs. Selling” controversy continues. Which is better? Is one more beneficial than the other?
As a Product Manager, one of the first things that should be considered before building out a new product is whether…
A look back at how Startup India has started blossoming and eased the journey of Startups and Investors
There comes a time when we ought to start doing what we love. Taking jobs you don’t love because you think it will look good on your resume or just because it will earn you a buck. Isn’t that a little like saving up sex for your old age? — Warren…
The term “brainstorming”, when introduced in 1953 by Alex Osborn, a founder and manager at…
Part 1 will talk about…
Abajo un resumen de los datos que más nos "pompiaron" en la convocatoria de pre18.
I kind of went dark on social media in the last few months of 2017. I didn’t think people would care, but a few people said things to…
“Don't wait for the environment to be ready. Don't wait for the policy to be ready. If everything is ready, then there is no opportunity for you” - Jack Ma.
Today I took a one hour drive out into the country to visit a startup hub and do some mentoring for a young entrepreneur.
I took a decision a long time ago to actively prioritize mentoring in my working time for two reasons:
Right now is the best time to be alive. Although from what we read on social media and see on the mainstream news, you would think the world is doomed. This is definitely not the case. Right now is beautiful and we should be celebrating…
“Zimbabwe, an economic powerhouse at independence in 1980, and still with the highest…
By Terri Lively
“Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.”
— Victor Hugo
$500 milyar değere ulaşan, 800 milyona yakın müşterisi bulunan Alibaba’nın 18…
When I moved to Toronto three years ago, I did not know a single soul. As a young professional, outside of work, I found it hard to meet people in settings where I could have meaningful conversations. So I did what everyone does when they are new to the city. I networked. I…
“Just one Game-Changer [is] enough to seed…
It really felt like just last week that I was sitting around in a post-New Year’s state of zen and musing about all the remarkable things that I’d accomplish in my first month of 2018.
In January 2015 our founder, Matt Jonns, set out on a new venture — to disrupt the status quo of the web development…
Innovation is such a positive word. We can slap it onto almost anything, and make it look good. There is a…
TLDC 2018 Conference ($595) | 7:30am @ GalvanizeTraining, Learning, and Development
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Failure is not always the worst thing that could have happened to us because come to think of it, some of the world’s…
Advancement in technology has revolutionized every aspect of life, especially in…
A few days ago it was raining. As I looked out my window, I saw pigeons sitting on the branches of the trees in my…
When engaging with female owned businesses in Africa, you and your business sit on the opportunity to transfer skills that can lead to the acceleration of the African business. One of my first clients…
I attended a dinner about overcoming obstacles to scale your business last week put on by The Supper Club, where business owners share challenges and learnings on how to grow. My SEO company BlueGlass is a small fish in the world of UK agency services, so…
For some, you may decide to go after it and build a corporate career. I think that’s…
By Michael Buzinski
This month I celebrate 5 years being within the iHub community. Throughout the five years I have been…
“Ideas are a dime a dozen”. You know about this phrase, and as soon as you will hear hear it, you…
Hi Viktoria!
You definitely bring up a good point that there are those who have the financial cushion from family members of parents and family and I agree with you, but I just wanted to say it isn’t impossible to achieve your goals because you are penniless.
I recently read a book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb titled ‘Anti-fragile: Things that Gain from Disorder’. It’s a book that…
Elk om beurt houden we met bijzondere aandacht de actualiteit, (sociale) media en het wereldwijde web in de gaten. De drie zaken die ons meest bijbleven bundelen we op vrijdag. Deze week was Daphné aan de beurt.
Thirteen years into my entrepreneurial journey, I have come to realise that I am better positioned to achieve great success with a smaller team. I can get things done with less effort and most likely a shorter…
Today I want to write about the importance of having a plan prepared for the day in order to accomplish your goals…
I was terrified of solving math word problems when I was in 6th grade.
As soon as I saw one of them I felt like my IQ immediately dropped by at least 30 points.
I never managed to solve any of them.
Accelerators and incubator programs are increasing at a tremendous pace across the world, but what does that really mean for a Startup? Is it a successful model? What does it look like? While East African programs rarely appear in the world top incubator program, we…
The future of all work is widely assumed to be adopting a creative industry model…
Tune into the as our very own founder and community manager, Greg Monterrosa gets interviewed for the 5 o’Clock Hustle podcast.
Every SEO Consultant has felt what I felt…
Stomach knotted…
Dry throat…
Hands shaking with nerves…
Generalists and the Traits of Growth and Greatness
TLDR: Extending the concept of Hot and Cold data to physical storage.
I have seen plenty of waste in the area of print when dealing with ad executives and brokers looking for perfection. Many would demand the reprint of printed material that have just a slight shift in color. Or the paper cutter shifted. Many of the times it really is unnecessary to reprint. Why?
Collaboration is widely defined as a working practice whereby individuals work together for a common purpose to achieve business benefit.
However, most office spaces don’t do a great job of reinforcing collaboration…
Nothing is more important in life than to be able to start again.Nothing is more important when starting something than the timing…
In the summer months at Bank of America in New York, my next-door cubicle neighbor and I had a running joke that Fridays should be optional. Why? For my brash coworker, it probably meant that they could head to el Rio Grande on 37th and 3rd a…
Before diving head first into the world of self-employment and entrepreneurship, I tried to minimize as much risk as I could in advance. I didn’t want to be worried about money or whether or not I would fail so without really knowing when that jump would happen, I did…
Hi everyone, this is my first post on Medium ever and I’m very excited to about…
Once upon a time, entrepreneurship was considered a “man’s world” and the presence of women in the field was overlooked and underestimated. Entrepreneurship has, over the years, evolved and women are becoming major players in the…
Agree with the direction of thought, but it’s I’d recommend not only considering handouts as this is at times paralysing to the economies of developing countries. I wrote some recommendations to a Tech Director I was advising in UK on making positive impacts with tech in developing world. They may or may not be useful to you, but thought to share…
If hard work would be the key to success, then those labors would the most successful people in the…
This is Part 3 of the Companies Giving Back series. There are some amazing organizations using practical and…
Working with small businesses, we are constantly amazed by their great ideas and their enthusiasm. But we have seen this fail to translate into high growth time and time again.
Why is this?
That feeling of constant fear, discomfort, and anxiety.
I’ve still got some notes to share about the first set of events and activities this year that have got Albuquerque on track for a great 2018, but let’s get set for a great February!
My first February highlight event is still coming together, but… I’m ecstatic…
Do what we love — we just got to try hardest everyday to put ourselves in a short term position so to what we love in the long term! … it’s supposed to be tough, but that’s the fun part
One of biggest benefits of starting my career as a programer was learning to solve problems. In my view, the first step in resolving any issue is to feel empowered to fix it in the first place. The dictionary has two different definitions of empowerment: 1) give someone the…
It’s difficult to counteract obsessive tendencies. Especially when it comes to goal-setting. Here are three strategies that I’ve used to stem the tide of anxiety that comes with wanting to accomplish a goal, and obsessing about doing it within…
My friend recently went to Mexico on a holiday and the moment he reached the airport got this text message.
That is 1 GB = £7,200 or $10,124.30 damn rip off. Whereas through DENT app you…
You can’t go wrong with skills!
So you’ve got an app idea, but no idea what to do with it. This is the position a…
Everybody wants to achieve their dreams, and there are so many people out there telling you that you can…
One of the greatest inventors of all time once said
“when you need a word to motivate you to succeed, don’t do it” — Elon Musk
I was 20 that year, watching the videos and struck by the words realizing that…
How to figure out who you are.
Recently I had attended a really good event at Launch Academy where non-technical founders spoke candidly about their experiences, learnings, and successes with doing tech start ups. A few comments that really stood out from the presenters for me:
Excited about the technology.
What drives human beings? Why do we make progress? Why do we want to cure cancer? All…
The first days in New York really shaped the way I consider power & influence today. The preparation literature was a fascinating prelude, but it was mostly the in-class discussion on Keltner & Greene that twisted my beliefs. In the story below, I tried to capture my train of thoughts;
↑ is my response to the prompt “17 syllables on feeling like the world has chewed me up.”
Scratch work:
Over 1,600 exhibitors spread over two halls of the Moscone Center in San Francisco. The aisles are…
Put all those business books down and put those textbooks into storage…
Help Desks are very handy to companies. Period. But still, we don’t think they solve the problem as…
To get straight to the point: the US module was my most rich experience ever. From the moment I arrived in Manhattan, it was one chain of unforgettable moments. I built a strong friendship with somebody I hadn’t seen for years. I went to amazing parties in Brooklyn, San Francisco , Carlos’…
As an entrepreneur, and you are the driver of your own business, you have so many things that demand your sole attention and you cannot afford being distracted. If you are, you will hit a bump on the road and chances are, your business may come crashing down.
I can’t believe it has been 2 weeks of school already. Time does fly as you get older and attend school. In my Opportunity Generation, Assessment, and Promotion class I completed my first module. It’s safe to say, this class is not bad at all; reading books, posting blogs, and looking through videos…
Hi, Colin Fitz-Gerald here, and I’m creating CareGetaway.com to offer recharging moments and getaways for family members taking care of loved ones. My family has experienced three crises in the last two years and we would not have made it through without these revitalizing breaks, and of…
To succeed at the highest level, your mindset must evolve through these three stages…and…
Thank you for being with us. This week we had a chat with a VC person, about how we can improve Certify College. We reached them and they kindly accepted to help us a little. We talked about: #Google #Analytics #Data #MachineLearning #DigitalMarketing among other topics
State government officials who are associated with the Gujarat Maritime Board conducted numerous meetings with senior representatives of Port of Rotterdam and the Netherlands. The purpose…
Many companies make people believe that they need a single application for every aspect of their company, so…
Thank you so much!
Going deep, having reliable facts, and demonstrating a solid business case is the only way to get VC funding — passion doesn’t do it.
Passion often gets compared to fire, but the element of fire both creates and destroys. Remember passion for extinguishing the burn of failure. What are you so passionate about that if you fail and fail again (and you will), you’ll keep pushing forward?
Your article is based on an extremely limited view of free trade — actually trade of any kind. There are always local effects produced by any activity. Where the effects are negative for some, they will generally (if not infallibly) be good for others. If we are talking about freedom they will be win-win or win-neutral (maybe a new meme created right…
An explanation of the Frugality Profitability Continuum.
I’ve been known to say, “people either have more time than money or more money than time.” As business owners we invest both every day…
