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Multi-Sided Platforms — Uber, Airbnb, and ZoomThru.

So…what exactly is a “multi-sided platform (MSP)”? Andrei Hagui of M.I.T. states that MSP’s are “technologies, services, or products that add value primarily by enabling direct interactions between two or more participating parties”…

Why I am moving to Africa

In a few weeks I’ll be taking a one-way flight to Rwanda to see what happens.

“Проблемы индейцев вождя не волнуют”

— это замечательное высказывание является дополнительно расшифровкой таких фраз: “Do your…

Eric Schmidt Predicts Future Unicorn Companies

Guess what? They’ll be using information crowdsourcing…

Assédio Sexual: Precisamos conversar sobre esse assunto!

狂ったアイデアへの巻き込み方: 駆け出し起業家へお勧めの「オリジナルズ」

Wharton の Adam Grant…

SimFin — Breaking the Shitty/Awesome Spectrum

Why the world needs SimFin and why I joined

My 10 years coding at Uniplaces

If you think that working in a product is boring, you’re (probably) wrong!

Some years ago, I saw myself working in a lot of projects at the same time. While studying Computer Science I had a research grant in INESC and at the same time I was…

Chronicles of an Uber Commuter — Baptism by Fire!

Day 1: Baptism by Fire!

The Prestige: How I lost my job soon after grad-walk and found myself again

วางแผนให้เป็น…มันก็เห็นอนาคต

บ่อยครั้งที่ธุรกิจจะมียอดขายและทำกำไรได้ทันทีเมื่อเจ้าของธุรกิจเปิดร้านใหม่…

Prendre des risques, ou saisir une chance - Empowerment

La semaine dernière j'ai enchainé deux…

Esusu Deserves Better: Time for Radical Change

Life Lessons From An Injury, A Business & 300+ Failed Job Applications

Some of the lessons I learn as…

Ahmed Fathi — Students In Tech

Why did you chose to study computer science/pursue tech? How did you begin your tech journey?

Three reasons to fire your accountant - immediately please

Sole proprietors (SPs) and micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) typically hire accountants to help them handle all the clerical stuffs ranging from tax filings, payroll processing, payroll tax filings and bookkeeping —…

How small companies can compete with big business employers in attracting talent

It’s All About Benjamins

It’s All About the Benjamins

Maybe there’s a better way of doing this?

It’s been seven years since I graduated from LSE. Since the summer of 2009, I’ve worked…

Don’t Hire A-players, Hire an A -Team

There is a logic that goes around Silicon Valley — A players attract A players. B players…

Июль 2016. Поехали дальше.

Каждый раз, когда проходит какой-то этап, я останавливаюсь для рефлексии. Я не делала личные записи почти полгода. И не то чтобы мне было нечего написать, скорее наоборот, слишком много, но сейчас я решила сделать такой “хайлайт” по всем тем выводам, к которым пришла. Наверное…

How This Startup Is Helping Uber and Airbnb Stay Ahead of the Game

Hire Marketers and then Let Them Work: Introducing the Concept of Marketing Mermaids & The Minimum Two Week Deep Dive

Signs that tell that your company is no longer a “startup”!

Employee Engagement — Reducing Employee Attrition ​

“Businesses that would withstand the test of time are those that find a way to motivate and keep their employees for a sustainable long term”.

Speak Up, Woman!

A few months ago, I spoke with the young, male CEO of a startup I was interested in joining. We had some things in common like an…

SaaS Founders: Crossing the Series A chasm

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about what it means to be an amazing Series A stage tech SaaS company these days. In the venture capital (VC) value chain, like in any other system, there are inputs and outputs. Outputs in VC can be thought of as the…

The Funding Divide — Increasing Gap Between Angels and VCs

Should your Startup be a Side Project?

It takes lot of inertia for you to start your own venture. Not just on idea or, finding a…

Introducing Startup Framework

A consolidation to Lean Startup concepts for first-time entrepreneurs.

Becoming a Gold Medalist in a Startup

Having spent the last 2.5 years in the Atlanta startup scene, I can say one thing for sure…

Blitzscaling Best Practices

“What’s luck got to do with it?”

42kura’s Magnifier; Dr. Bruce H. Krogh, Advisory Board Member & Mentor

Meet Dr. Bruce H. Krogh, founding director of CMU Rwanda, and a 42kura’s advisory-board member & mentor

Changed Perceptions on SaaS Pricing

OK, I’ll admit it. I used to think more than $50 on any product was super ridiculous. If it was…

30 ideas in 30 days (Part 1/3)

I wanted to do this activity so as to expand my thinking and appreciate the ideas other entrepreneurs are working on.

I did not put in any market research or google search, I just started to notice things, and tried to come up with the ideas. I don’t…

新しい道を築いていくこと

今年の２月に、もう一度コーヒー屋をやると誓ってから、早くも半年が過ぎようとしている。

ただ月日だけ過ぎてしまったのか？というとそうでもない。

あの後、突然目の前にチャンスが訪れて、バタバタと急に物事が動き始めて、次から次へとやらなきゃいけないことが出てきて、記事を書いている暇がなかっただけ。

とにかく色んなことをやった。

Organizing Talent: The “Secret of Success” at EURO 2016

It is never about the choices

It never got this difficult, do you invest in a purpose, in people or in self. It is easy to pick the first two in an idealistic situation. But then, you have experiences to waver you either ways. When you think more, what people pick, in their own terms, is not about the…

Grilled chicken is not something to scoff at!

The rare cases when it makes sense for platforms to create supply

I agree, stay humble and curious. Feedback is the key. Also when contemplating the reasons behind a criticism, I remember this lesson from the book “The Science of Fear.” When someone has a negative emotional reaction to something, they will intuitively turn that gut reaction into a reason and that reason into criticism and that criticism will be…

Lessons Learned #2

Products you build will be taken seriously, even if they’re just for fun.

部分科技新創公司先天不良的5個原因／解聰文

自己開公司永遠有風險。過去幾十年來，大約有90%的公司都在成立不久之後就提早陣亡。

Growth do Dia — Cegueira a banners

Cegueira a banners = triste realidade atual.

Aceite e encare isso — do pior para o MELHOR jeito (1–4):

1. Anúncios nativos (Anúncios na área de conteúdo principal, nada de “anúncio lateral”)
2. Anúncios que se…

What are 4 efficient lead generation strategies for B2B marketers? [Originally posted on Quora]

What I’m about to say brinks on marketing blasphemy is certain circles, but I’m sharing this anyway because as someone who has interacted directly with clients, this…

ภาพรวม Startup ในอินเดียเมื่อต้นปี

ภาพโดยรวมของ Startup ในอินเดีย ปี 2016 จากการสำรวจโดย LetsVenture บริษัทเจ้าของ Platform สำหรับ Startup ในอินเดีย รวมคำตอบกว่าห้าร้อย Startup มาสะท้อนให้เห็นกระแสของงานที่ส่วนใหญ่เริ่มต้นมาจากความท้าทายทางไอเดีย (7 ใน 10 เริ่มต้นเพราะต้องการจะท้าทายการแก้ไขปัญหาต่างๆ…

Working hard is the only key to success

Great article man!

Agree 100 percent. The only tried and tested method to success is working hard.

I kept looking for short cuts myself, but you soon realise that all successful people have already put in…

3 Key Insights for Sellers from eBay’s CEO interview

The simplest rule of hiring in my book is: stay clear of careerist professionals, those who jump from job to job for ever greater companies while moving up the ladder fast. Those are usually the worst in terms of personality. They exhibit one or more of the following characteristics:

1. Think of themselves as unique, better…

For every Mark Zuckerberg there are thousands of guys who think they are the next Mark, but they aren’t. These guys can be very destructive because they think they’re destined for the top, while lacking true capacity.

Also note that most companies shouldn’t be hiring the next Mark Zuckerberg anyway. They wouldn’t be able to…

Notable Spekaers of ICISTS 2016

Keynote Speaker

Dennis Hong

How Fake Credibility Can Destroy Your Personal Reputation

There are lots of great articles on the web about how to keep your business reputation intact. But your personal reputation is even more important than your business. When your personal reputation is harmed, it’s a lot harder to…

こんな感じで、スタートアップのビジョンを伝える伝道師のような役割もやっていくつもりです。

The Top Draft Picks: Let the Games Begin

What do a guy from Memphis with a BA in Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies (me), a Brit with a BSc in Computer Science, a Bostonian who just studied abroad in Barcelona, an Italian studying bio-engineering, and a Californian of Persian decent with a BA in…

Take Life Back to Basics and Enjoy the Rewards

Reward yourself with simplicity

What the experts know about OVERCOME FEARS …and manage them (every day) as entreprenuer?

Have you ever felt that overwhelming fear, hitting you from the clear blue sky? Felt is as an digital entrepreneur? Are you feeling it now?

Are there more episodes? » This is Modern Living

Yes.

Yes there are.

I’ve been working on them. They are in the pipeline. They are coming.

Also, I haven’t been working on them. I’ve been avoiding them. I’m terrified of them.

Think before you […]

I stayed up all night.

I kept dozing off on the sofa, but I couldn’t go to bed without knowing the result of Britain’s EU referendum. At around 4:40am, that result came.

Crossing The Coding Junction

Back in 2010, I took a keen interest in Physics which I was going to graduate in later. My best friend took up course which had coding in it.

I loved logic and mathematics, so I took an interest in coding. It seemed to me — some of the students of that…

Allow yourself to be a Beginner

No one starts off being excellent.

Starting small business can be more stressful than raising children or maintaining a healthy relationship with your spouse. Here are some basic principles to get you or anyone else started on a sane journey toward…

Now I’m looking to open source some of my Android projects 😃 Thanks for the tip 😃

La tentación de escribir me invade.

Sensaciones, sabores y sueños rondan mi mente y una vez más siento que hay tanto que me falta por descubrir y experimentar.

Tantas cosas que quiero probar, hacer, sentir, oler, tocar, entender, aprender…

Chronicles Of A Local ATL Startup [Chapter 2:My Product, Log 7]

Building a sustainable business. Taking care of business processes.

All entrepreneurs and business owners have many goals when building a business. One of them is to ensure that they are having a sustainable business and lives through any market turbulences and market forces which…

Nueva Maillot Titular Reebok del RC Lens 10/11

Cashtivity’s Demo Day Pitch for the LearnLaunch Accelerator

Watch CEO, Marissa Di Pasquale pitch Cashtivity for Math in the video below. Educators, education administrators, investors, students, and industry experts were given a preview at the LearnLaunch Accelerator Demo Day.

11 Points of Difference: What Fast Growth Insurance Agencies & Brokerages Do That Others Don’t

(And Why They Will Own The Future)

Why do some agencies & brokerages win more than others?
That is the question that has…

SMA (Social Media Analytics). Part II. Perspective?
 
 This text (related excerpts from one really huge book) can be taken as an express-diagnosis for (not an)industry of social media analytics. A point of any diagnosis (medical, expert, anatomopathological), is to scare into doing something to remedy the situation: doing a morning workout, taking…

MU Online Servers: Take Your Gaming Experience To The Next Level

The gambling world that is online is growing at an extraordinary rate. You will find hundreds of games that can be got from any given location by game maniacs to make their experiences more satisfying. Besides serving…

Coding is easy. For that matter, so are brain surgery and writing. What’s hard is removing a brain tumor, or writing a readable novel. Just writing a bunch of words in a row or cutting someone’s head open is pretty simple, much like building a rails project that doesn’t do anything.

One Reason People Will Not Buy From You

There are many reasons people will not buy from you.

There’s also many reasons they would.

I want to mention one reason people are not buying from you.

How to get out of this trap of fears?

And manage to invite to ventures that generate wins for all — every time?

… .Even if you are new in the business, not on the charts and has less than 500 followers?

3 Unnerving eBay Tricks Costing Customers

Individuals hope to discover stunning arrangements on eBay, however that just makes it harder for them to recognize the arrangements that are unrealistic. That is the reason eBay is additionally a perfect stage for con artists.

Le buzz paradoxal.

Sous un coup d’éclat se cache une réalité plus difficile. 
Exemple, le mois dernier, un site internet de vente de chaussures…

HOW TO SELL YOUR PROPERTY (House) FAST?

On the off chance that you need to offer your home quick, the most ideal approach to do it…

How to get Best Cleaning Services in Malaysia ?

Looking at tippingTree.com and MeDoFi.com

Fortalecimiento de Estados Unidos

El módulo de globalización económica desmintió visiones sobre la realidad de América Latina, la región presenta un bajo crecimiento económico, debido a la recesión en países como Brasil y Venezuela. La situación en la región era distinta en el pasado con la demanda de…

Why Moving Industry Is Broken And Needs Fixture

On the subject of plans

The secret about plans is that they can change and that’s OK.

We are constantly told to plan our careers, plan our wedding, plan retirement, plan a project, plan the day, plan death etc. What is taken for granted is what to do when things don’t go according to…

Best ok point I’ve seen in a long time to stay focused and on track. The self help shit will kill you and leave you spinning the wheels of self doubt

Gary Vee is unique in what he does the best lesson he taught me is you got to give to get. You can’t pull his other stunts off work on pulling off your own.

Thanks for pointing out how culture has instilled this ‘only one’ moment get-it-right or your life might as well be over mentality that affects so many young people. It’s putting those that go along on such edge to succeed, like they’re prepared to do anything to just get through this test, and make others think that they’re complete failures who…

Tips for Finding a Reliable Window Cleaner in London

Summary: Finding the right service provider for your home is not always an easy task. Some promise excellent service only to deliver poor results, thus making you think twice of hiring them again. This is the case with most services, and window cleaning London is also not…

Search for help. Give help. We all need to.

How can we help you? How can we inspire you? How can we inspire you to thrive? To work, to build, to create vigorously and continuously? What do you need to make your mark in history? What do you need to know or hear that will help you be a better leader?

A lot of these points are true but it’s never black and white. I’m an Android and Web application developer and I solve problems not by always building from scratch but also by figuring out where bits and pieces of already built solutions — “called libraries BTW” — fit. Engineering is about finding solutions that work for certain scenarios. How else…

Reset your thoughts on innovation.

What do we mean when we talk about innovation.

1. Innovation means adding…

Positive Points About moving companies bay area

Bay area movers assistance a wonderful deal to overwhelm the strain during the .People today get their safeguarded and insured via these organizations. Likely refers back once more with the associates which individuals their merchandises from…

Time-robbing criminal activity

I’m writing this to you from my favorite hipster coffee shop in phoenix.

Picking out the Ideal Starting Poker Hands Guide

Selecting the Ideal Starting Poker Hands Guide

An easy online explore the keyword ‘starting poker hands guide’ reveals there are numerous such basic poker guides; that is as well, with there being several varieties of…

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