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Say hello to Street FC — a mashup of social + tech + cities + soccer — Back in 2018, I met up with a guy named Kyle Martino at a coffee shop in downtown NYC. Kyle is a former pro soccer player (USMNT, LA Galaxy, Columbus Crew), was the on-air face of NBC’s Premier League coverage for many years and, at the time, was running to…

每年都有許多新的創業風潮湧現，市場總會找尋新的風口而熱錢則蜂擁而至，從 Metaverse 到 Crypto ，這些 Buzzword 在投資人和媒體的推波助瀾下相繼獲得新高的估值，成就光鮮亮麗的故事。而近期整體市場的崩跌（或是說校正回歸?），正好能讓過熱的市場冷靜下來，好好審視更多不同型態的公司，關注穩健打好地基的企業，而非僅聚焦在 Hype …

We’re excited to announce today that Forma.ai has closed its Series B, led by ACME Capital. Crosslink’s relationship with Forma.ai began at the seed stage when we met Founder/CEO Nabeil Alazzam and his team in Toronto as they were transitioning from a bootstrapped startup into a venture-backed business. I was…

Companies like Google, Apple, and Amazon have proven that it is possible to build products that customers value. However, developing such products is not as easy as one-two-three. Customers don’t see the pain product teams go through to build winning products, but we can’t blame them for that, as most…

Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers. — “Product designers have never had so many tools and techniques at our disposal to help us do our job. Research, journey maps, Figma, code, Keynote, data analysis… the list is huge and keeps growing. With so many options, how do we know which ones to use for our projects and…

When you think about hiring your first designer, it’s probably already too late. Too often when building a product, there has been the misconception that “design can come later” — and this often results in developers doing the UX themselves and building up usability debt that is costly to unwind. …