There are 1.3 billion results in Google for the search term “learn to code”. Be it Google, Facebook or Twitter, you’ll find millions of ads sponsored by some sort of programming bootcamp.
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A summary of “Hooked” by Nir Eyal…
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The Shotput packing algorithm is used at present for determining the best box size for an order we receive into our system. Through a series of testing the accuracy of the Shotput box packing algorithm against the…
about French start-ups who reached 100m$ valuations
For a long time now, I have compared startup offers against that of established companies. The comparison boils down to this:
Startup offer:Base salaryEquity
My friend Rob likes to say, “Every services company wants to be a product company.” He’s right. Product companies are alluring, and they’re…
ConvertKit, an email marketing company for professional bloggers, has just announced they closed a funding round of $1.8 million from a large group of angel investors. While a traditional…
And why it speaks to a greater misunderstanding in the tech industry
NOTE: The following article contains spoilers regarding HBO’s Silicon Valley season 3. Please read at your own risk.
The only thing certain about startups is the uncertainty. The vast majority of founders will…
There is some skepticism right now about the long-term viability of the subscription ecommerce model. Today’s subscription box businesses deliver everything from beauty/grooming products to trendy outfits to healthy snacks, and many have a passionate and loyal…
Are you a shopaholic who spends way too much time planning your dream wardrobe? dreaming…
Amateurs talk about tactics, but professionals study logistics - Gen. Robert H. Barrow
Behind every great leader, there was an even greater logistician…
The success of platforms such as Airbnb and Uber has sparked a platform boom. Suddenly, start-ups as well as established players want a piece of this lucrative pie.
Talk to someone who is doing the regular nine to five kind of job about their…
Copyright is one of the most important parts of the world economy. It protects all creative works. Art, photos, songs, videos, literature, architecture and…
My name is Jeremy, cofounder & CEO of Growbot, a messaging bot on a mission to build better relationships at work through more…
The following was a posted I penned for CB Insights. [UPDATED on 7/18/06 to include StartX, which self-reported the #’s according to our parameters below]
I was reading Ellen McGirt’s post in Fortune, Why Employers Need to talk about Shootings of Black People, buoyed after 24 hours of drifting in waves of despair about the murders of Alton Stewart and Philandro Castile. And then I…
Pittsburgh, which was founded two centuries ago in 1816, was one of the great economic centers of the United States. It was the 8th biggest city by population in 1920, and it peaked at over 700,000 in the 1940s. A geographic center where the rail lines met between cities…
Ha sido un proceso largo, pero estamos cerca ya de dar el pistoletazo de salida de K Fund, un nuevo fondo de…
The Net Promoter System (NPS) is a simple yet innovative customer feedback system, ideal for measuring customer loyalty and predicting business growth. Unlike traditional market research and customer surveys, NPS asks only two easy questions of customers. This creates rapid feedback, high…
Surprisingly — or not, 75% of…
This story was originally published as GuestPost on AdEspresso, May 13th 2016.
Oh wait, sorry. Sorry, sorry, sorry. My mistake. It’s not “AdEspresso raises $20M” but “AdEspresso raises at $20M”. As in valuation, not amount raised.
One of the fun things about being the founder of Boost VC, is that we really are a startup. We are in year 4 of a long…
A version of this article previously appeared on Forbes.
Lots of people are angry at Evernote today for increasing their prices and squeezing functionality out of their Free Plan. But these upset users are a good thing and so is this decision — for 3 reasons:
I am having a hard time sleeping these past a couple of days. So after struggling to sleep for the last 6 hours, I decided to just get up and write them down. And one of the things I’ve being thinking is a theory about freemium pricing models.
Yash Sharma,Delhi NCR, Content
I’m often asked how I came to join Zomato and what it’s like to work in Content. Most people outside of Zomato have this impression that working here is all about the fun and coolness. They don’t get to see the hustle…
Все хотят учить English For IT. И это прекрасно, мы научим)
Instagram kod nas ne shvataju dovoljno ozbiljno. Povremeno vidimo mali logo na brošuri ili na dnu izloga neke turističke…
By: Ben Anderson & Xin Liu
When a customer posts a request on Thumbtack, we want to match them with the right professional for the job. When the marketplace was small, this was easy —…
During the recent GES event at Stanford University, a number of investors and entrepreneurs from around the world asked me what I was excited about investing in next. My answer was simple:
“I want to digitally finance human productivity.”…
After an amazing and intense five years founding, consulting with, and working at tech start ups — including the past year at x.ai, where we kicked some major ass — I’m taking the summer to work on an important, yet neglected, project: me.
I speak to a lot of people about their app ideas and I seem to ask the same questions on repeat. Before you pitch your app idea to a developer, it might be worth asking yourself the following:
You might have heard of the intention-action gap?
In essence, it is the reason diets are constantly falling by the wayside, grades are not being…
How most startups are built is super contradictory to both common sense, logic and what history has…
Here’s a compilation of my favorite email newsletters I’m subscribed to, plus links to sign…
This was my weekly newsletter for June 20, 2016. You could subscribe and all my newsletters are here if you want to read before you try. No spam, just me.
I recently was speaking with someone who mentioned that they had an idea for a healthcare/nutraceutical startup. It sounded like a reasonable idea, targeting a niche that was underserved. At the end of the conversion she said, “OK, well don’t tell anyone…
“Don’t. Screw. This. Up.” These were some of my first thoughts stepping into the creative…
Why should You start your Career at a STARTUP?
If twenty years ago, you had to decide whether you want to start your career at a startup or not. The…
With the expertise of over a million surveys behind us, at SatisMeter we like to think we know a thing or two about NPS. Over the next few weeks we’ll be sharing that knowledge with you.
We live in a world where the word ‘Spider-Man’ is far more popular than the word ‘Gene’. The fact being that Spider-Man is a genetically mutated teen that got his superpowers from a radioactive spider, we are still in deep science fiction territory than peer-reviewable…
A word that you won’t stop hearing in the upcoming years if you have heard it so much yet.
What about “Big Data” (trending buzzword)? As working in the e-commerce world and by experimenting myself with my stores I can tell you how much it is important and how much we don’t…
This was a guest blog that I wrote for IBM Social and published at:
https://www.ibm.com/blogs/social-business/2016/07/07/how-can-cios-can-get-ahead-of-shadow-it/
July 10, 2016: Unless you started ultra lean and have managed to claw your way to…
Everyone is quite excited about AI, deep learning, chat bots, and voice interaction. These…
When Get Becomes a 4 Letter Word.
I’ve been asked the question in a wide array of contexts…
How do I get people to buy my stuff? How do I get people to open my emails? How do I get people to join my community? How do I get people to sign up for my list? How do I get people to promote my stuff…
Medium es la red social de Twitter, que nos permite compartir nuestras ideas, experiencias, cuenta con un formato sencillo, permite al usuario escribir sin límites de caracteres, tiene un ambiente libre de publicidad y distracciones, él único protagonista principal es el texto. Cada…
This was my weekly newsletter for April 27, 2016. You should subscribe and all my newsletters are here if you want to read before you try. No spam, just me.
You are told you NEED one but sometimes nobody wants to BE one…… let’s talk about the lead investor, the ‘deal daddio’, the ‘money momma’ and exactly what that means for your round if you don’t have one.
Digital business needs designs that make people, not technology, better. Too…
Below is an interview I did with Paul Papadimitriou as part of Notion Capital’s Podcast series. It was a fun conversation, in which we talk about startups, my early steps in…
Imagine waking up to a day when you cannot have your kick starter cup of tea, no coffee shots…
NewselaはEdTech分野のサービスを展開している、NY発のスタートアップです。下記のような標題がウェブサイトに掲げられています。
Newsela is an education technology startup dedicated to transforming the way learners access the world through words. https://newsela.com/company/
Most great ideas are born from a pain. We felt our pain while operating our previous startup Driven — an on-demand driver hire service. With a strong emphasis on the customer experience, we regularly spoke to our customers but often received vague and overly subjective feedback…
According to Juliet (Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet), a name should mean nothing, but for a…
Dans l’actualité d’Igloo ces dernières semaines, plusieurs déplacements, encore et toujours pour…
Today was a landmark in the evolution of our startup, Mamoru. Three months after we entered the Nexuslab virtual blockchain…
Anyone who has read basically anything I’ve written over the last 18 months knows that “building the dream” is the vision, goal, and ambition of my company and, by proxy, me. And trust me, I believe in it. I mix up the kool-aid; cast the hook, line, and sinker…
Rice Bowl Startup Awards (RBSA) là giải thưởng thường niên đầu tiên tại Đông Nam Á tôn vinh những startup đột phá, sử dụng công nghệ một cách sáng tạo. 10 quốc gia Đông Nam Á sẽ tham gia tranh tài cho nhiều hạng mục khác nhau. Mỗi quốc…
As the CEO of Katipult, a software product that allows SMEs in private capital markets to design, setup, and manage an investment crowdfunding platform, I’ve spoke with thousands of firms looking to enter this emerging…
Karl Marx was known to believe that being occupied by good work was living well. He was under the impression that engagement in productive, purposeful work was the means by which people could realise their full potential.
Want to know the secret to creating better customer…
(More like a guide to keep myself in check.)
This is such a perfect read. I started on a journey several years ago and it was the best time of my life. I followed my every dream. Acted impulsely on every idea and it was great. Somewhere along the way i decided to allow input from my parents. That became the hole in the boat in the middle of the ocean. I began to sink. I lost the faith that…
As an ex-student of Sociology and Anthropology, I have become increasingly interested in how I can best use what I learnt in those formative years to become a better, more theory driven investor. This is the beginning of what I hope will be a long and…
Startups são conhecidas pelo baixo investimento inicial em seus projetos, e por…
This was my weekly newsletter for May 29, 2016. You could subscribe and all my newsletters are here if you want to read before you try. No…
Often when two sides disagree, one side is stuck being defensive, with no willingness to really attempt to understand the other side. It would be great and wonderful for disagreements to be resolved using mutual understanding for the other but it rarely works out that…
The following is a guest post by my co-founder, Kabir
9 weeks in on my journey with Sanctus. Of course, I’ve already had those moments of feeling invincible and times when I feel completely lost.
It’s been a good start, but I feel like something’s missing? I need your help to work out…
Colin Keeley: I know you are a competitive poker player. What similarities do you…
Que vous soyez en pleine création ou dans une démarche de modernisation de votre entreprise…
Yesterday at the CB Insights Future of Fintech Conference, Union Square Ventures partner Fred…
Do you want to automate your EBS Backup, AMI creation, Change Instance Types, Stop and Start your EC2 instances in…
…
It’s always easier said than done.
What’s even easier is to keep telling yourself that it’s easier said than done and then never do anything…
A/B testing (or split testing) is a method of comparing two versions of a digital asset (including webpages, apps, ads, or email subject lines) to determine which one performs better. Running more than two tests of a digital asset is known as multivariate testing.
Back from the desert with 5,000 friends
Greetings from San Francisco!
We’re seeking a mid-level full-stack software engineer for our mostly Rails &…
Previously, I talked about the purpose of consolidating the startup concepts and created this Startup…
‘QA’ is one of the less understood aspects of creating a product. Some misconceptions are that it’s simply checking, testing, and using the product. Sort of a once-over for bumps and scratches. And sure, some good old-fashioned…
They say write 500 word blog posts.
My most visited webpage is over 10,000 words of content.
They say send your emails on a Tuesday.
There are a lot of IP analysis and monitoring tools out there.
What they promise is ease and efficiency, but what they actually deliver is more work. There’s data inside, but to get it out, you…
Dear digital nomads from around the world. It is needless to say Bangkok is the HUB for remote workers right!? Being digital nomad is great but finding digital nomad friendly…
I am once again reminded of a powerful image shared by the Spotify engineering team.
I’ve worked with hundreds of designers throughout my career, with client rosters as varied as…
With over 15 million fans on Facebook, Lazada is the most followed brand in Southeast Asia. Everyday, there are also millions of visitors shopping at our sites. As you can imagine, it takes an army of community managers and customer service officers to…
Your toughest sell is not that you can create a great community, but to convince investors that you can make money from your audience. ~Jared Friedman, partner at Y Combinator
Did you invent it? Did you come up with it? Did you start it? Really?
Interesting things about how to Hack WiFi Password
Your Wi-Fi network is your conveniently wireless gateway to the internet, and since you’re not keen on sharing your connection with any old hooligan who happens to be walking past your home, you secure your network with a password, right? Knowing, as you might, how easy it…
This list of startup resources and tools was compiled in an effort to be helpful to startup founders and…
Entrepreneur First (EF) is a startup accelerator with a twist. They recruit individuals…
Thanks for writing this, Jesse. I think this points to an even larger issue. We are moving to an economy where everyone is an entrepreneur and has multiple streams of income.
ช่วงไม่กี่ปีมานี้ Startup…
In doing product work, I often think on a quote from Eugene Gendlin, a psychotherapist most famous for the “Focusing” technique. The “Litany of Gendlin”:
What is true is already so. Owning up to it doesn’t make it worse. Not being open about…
I’m naturally a skeptical person. Of course I am. I come from journalism — the land…
Sault Ste. Marie has a long history in manufacturing and harnessing natural resources to produce everything from steel, forest products, and even renewable energy.
37Signals (now called Basecamp) is a Chicago-based web application company, famous for having amongst other things invented the Ruby on Rails web application framework, and the “Getting Real” philosophy. 37Signals is one of the most highly respected authorities on web usability…
“Make sure you’re keeping score of the right KPI and being smart in how you push them forward.”
A music lover, Roy Povarchik started a record label at the young age of 19 with partners…
Perseverance looks like #BreathingWhileBlack. Perseverance looks like continuing to try and achieve…
Are all innovators alike?
Missouri State University’s grant-funded and donor-sponsored small business incubator and (soon-to-be) accelerator, The eFactory, has had numerous successes since it started in 2013. With some data showing a failure rate of 92% for start-ups in the…
Imagine you are 20 something and you finish university, or you might as well still be studying and you want to…
Our purpose for ReIntent was to make accessing high value prospect data dead easy and reliable. We tinkered with a bunch of different ways to solve this, and through some trial and error, are proud to have arrived at our final destination. We’re…
If you’re anything like me, your exterior is a calm facade for what is an interior in a never ending stormy sea of weird mixes — of self-love and self-loathe, sort of like banana and mayonnaise. Individually, and in moderate amounts, enjoyable, but when put together, just weird. Now that I have your…
In many professional services firms, 80% of business comes from 20% of the client base. It’s called the 80/20 rule or the Pareto principle. This can be especially true for newer firms eager to take on whatever new…
12 months ago, armed with little more than an idea and the right combination of tech and business expertise across its four co-founders, AI startup…
Every ambitious investor wants to find a new Facebook. But how would you figure out that, namely, this idea will turn into a multi-billion dollar corporation? Of course, there are no clairvoyants among investors, but we are able to get some valuable insights from Viktor Kompaneyets…
“Hay tres cosas que cada persona debería hacer durante su vida: plantar un árbol, tener un hijo y…
As the CEO of your business, one of your responsibilities is to continuously be evaluating all of your options for growth. Whether you are growing organically or considering acquisitions, your business is either growing or shrinking relative to your position in your market. Your…
I’m always a bit shocked when I hear the infamous statistic that “90% of startups fail.” The beginning of any entrepreneurial endeavor can…
Όταν το σχέδιο (σκίτσο) δημιούργησε τις πρώτες παιδικές φιγούρες στα παιδικά βιβλία, απόκτησαν τα παραμύθια μια σχετική εικόνα. Ακόμη από την πρώτη εποχή της ανθρώπινης ύπαρξης, υπήρχαν χαράξεις μέσα σε σπηλιές με διάφορα εικονίδια που εκδήλωναν κάποια παραμύθια…
I have a dream: Help an entire generation reach it’s full potential.
Based upon my personal experience with my current employer ( Furlenco : Series A funded company ) & my one failed start-up .
Here goes my evaluation criteria for startups :-
Paralysis by analysis is a well-known metaphor describing the state of over-analyzing a situation and an action is never taken. Additional data may be gathered to portray the picture that work is being conducted, however, what is really happening is that a decision is being…
Italy is the new start-up country, the Financial Times says |
Italy represents a great opportunity for those who want to build a start-up or invest in one…
Life is a journey, at certain points in our life we come to crossroads when we are faced with decisions of what to do…
Will Increased Entrepreneurship Deliver Growth?
The increase in entrepreneurial activity in Jamaica has been chronicled in successive versions of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) report, a publication which compares data on entrepreneurship from several countries. A unique data set highlighted by the report is the…
We are a startup in San Francisco and airbnb a house in the north (#GoTReference #nerdtime) cause San…
At my agency, FL+G, we often consult with startups. One of the first things we talk about with these new companies is the need for strong brand messaging. We firmly believe that a strong core message is essential when building a brand because this…
It is a subject which business owners and/or managers wrestle with on a regular basis. Should I outsource certain parts of the operation and what will it mean for the business.
