Startup

Three Types of Triggers for Habit Designers

Like every designer, Habit Designers operate under constraints. Triggers are where…

Why a Visual Really is Worth 1,000 Words

Skill in visual communication has become nearly as…

How to Create Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) For Your Business, and Why It’s SO Important That You Do

You know why people go to McDonald’s? Because they always know what they’re getting.

Não quero mais brincar de startup

Faz mais ou menos 6 meses que iniciei um novo negócio, minha primeira startup. Confesso que apesar de ter participado de diversos lançamentos de produtos, criações de negócios, empresas em primeiro estágio de maturação, a experiência em ter um negócio incerto é bem…

Why Some SaaS Hit a Wall at $20m in Revenues

Part of my job when I invest in a start-up is to get folks excited about the company. It’s not that hard. Because I am genuinely excited. Or I wouldn’t make the investment. And part of the picture I try to paint for the The Next Investor is where…

The Top 6 Paid Slack Communities

There’s a whole host of reasons paid Slack communities work wonders for small businesses and social…

A good idea isn’t enough. 3 lessons from building Skype and TransferWise

There’s No Place Like Home

An entrepreneur on a quest for meaning finds her true calling at home in…

You are not special. WE are special.

But lately, I feel WE are divided.

未来の仮説としてのスタートアップ

Peter Thiel いわく「賛成する人がほとんどいない、大切な真実」を知っていることがスタートアップをするときの鍵だそうです。そしてすべての起業家は「今から 10 年から 20…

How to Develop Your Product Intuition

The Squishy Skill that determines product success

Here’s the Big Problem with Thinking You Have to Wake Up Early

Why Do I Have to Test Your Shit? (The 5-Minute Sniff Test)

If you can’t spend 5 minutes testing your…

Design Your Paid Parental Leave Policy Before It’s Too Late

We are a 7-person seed stage company and we just put together our parental leave policy. I interviewed a couple of other founder friends to learn what they did because I couldn’t find much online, and I thought I’d share ours…

Gotta Catch ’Em All: How Pokémon GO Could Change the Way Apps Make Money

The Longform Startup

A paradigm shift in the way we measure failure and success.

The end of code as we know it

I started learning how to code and play piano the same week. It looked a lot like this:

Finding Polaroid

A sharply dressed Englishman sat down with a small coffee, black. It was a sunny, but breezy San Francisco afternoon. He handed…

5 Lessons from Nature About Being an Entrepreneur

Last week I had the pleasure to submerge myself in the rainy, flat, yet beautiful landscapes of the Netherlands.

Did Someone Say Beer?

Learn How You Can Build Your Own Simple Beer Service with Serverless IoT on AWS with Intel Edison

By Jeremy Wallace, AWS Solutions Architect

How Investors Fall in Love

It’s fast approaching a year since I joined Blackbird. I’ve had the opportunity to pause and reflect on how much I’ve learned about investing and its corollary, fundraising, since I joined. Particularly from the viewpoint of the entrepreneur, all my preconceptions were mostly wrong.

20 + Chrome extensions that let you get shit done

Почему Giraff.io?

Есть технологии, которые меняют все. Сначала это кажется невозможным, затем становится новой религией, а потом — нормой. Спустя…

I tried to ‘Connect the dots backwards’ using 'Theory of Relativity’. Crazy story of my life!

Aboard the Oriental Express: An Indian Perspective on China’s Startup Success

Last month, I accompanied Kalaari Capital, one of India’s leading VC firms, as a Chinese translator and intern on the firm’s first trip to China. We heard how the best of China’s VCs and large…

What a Used Car Salesman Taught Me About How to Love Your Customers

Why do most startups fail? the answer is UX, no not UX as in UI/UX, real UX

The missing link

Have you spent too much effort, money & time on a web/mobile app or any kind of product/service to realize after launch that users only try it once…

The Greylock Minute | Summer 2016

A quick update of our recent investments, portfolio news, and partner perspectives

As we move into summer, we wanted to share an update on our newly announced investments, a selection of…

Stop being mind-numbingly bored at work and feel the pain instead

You stand at a crossroads. You have to decide how to spend the next 18 months of your life. Which is riskier? To throw caution to the wind and quit your job to set off your grand adventure? Or to continue to work…

Soyez indulgents : nous ne sommes pas à la Silicon Valley

9 razloga zašto treba da radite u startup-u

Pitali smo buduće zvezde digitalne industrije zašto startup

Saving for retirement — can startups solve the pain points?

2 Secrets to Designing for Delight

Is “Designing for Delight” Worth It?

An Inside Look at What Angel Investors Want

Data on recent angel investor deals highlights entrepreneur opportunities

How I got my messenger bot in Product Hunt top 5, and what did I learn from it?

On 28 Jun, I released…

Workplace diversity matters — so how are we all getting it so wrong?

How to Get from Junior to Senior Developer?

It’s true that a senior developer is someone who has mastered the art of programming…

CTO Corner #5: The Power of Technology in Creating Human Connection

The Hardware Revolution

Early 2010, Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson highlighted a major shift both in the ecosystem and in the…

Place Matters: The Capital-C Capital Problem for Startups in Underserved Communities

A New High Bar for AR — The Post Pokemon GO Era

Le LevelUp Camp, ou comment passer au niveau supérieur

Remodel Journal 08 — The Demo Day!

处女座：“我发现，我越来越喜欢我们家门口的路灯了。晚上出门有灯照着感觉比较安全，而且门口这条路上路灯不是很多，但我们家门口有一个。”

射手座：“我们家门口有路灯吗？”

－－－ 日常之对话

终于等到开工这一天了！周末的最后几个小时 devote 给了把厨房和 dining 区完全清理出来。虽然我们是抱着 “马上要装修了，厨房简单用一下” 的心态，但还是收拾了两大箱厨房用品出来。

How Making Money Can Make a Difference: Bringing Transparency and Choice of Impact to Banking

An inside look at the Polsky Incubator company, Mighty, and their upcoming speaker series on the impact…

What Twitter, Medium, Airbnb, Netflix and Spotify can teach you about hiring engineers

I didn’t understand what was going on.

My stuff was good. I knew it was good. Or I thought it was good. Not sure anymore. Still, no one even seemed to care. No one seemed to notice. I had no clue what I was doing wrong.

Blue Apron Review Part One: Box received.

Another day. Another dinner. Does it leave you delirious? Does it suffocate you? Drown you in a sacrificial nightmare of submerging leafy greens in water with your own hands?

Does it?

Key advantages of doing business in Egypt

• Cheapest and skillful labor (average labor cost =100 Euro per month)
• Cheapest…

What is Kesar?

Kesar is a company at the intersection of computer science, biology and design. Our mission is to create the world where revolutionary bioproducts are designed with focus and care towards…

5 Ways to Apply Innovation in Your Role (No Matter the Company)

The concept of 4E and 4R in Talent Management

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One the questions I am always asked when I run an industry event (like the one I ran last month) is how do folks ensure they remain ‘employable.’ Simply because jobs and job functions change dramatically in the…

How to Really Value Your Early-Stage Startup

Prologue 1:

I love startup clip art. This is, after looking for about 15 minutes, the absolute worst thing I could find on the subject of startup valuation. It’s magnificent.

Experiencing Failure: My Journey After Grad School

by Luciano Colos

The Secret Stuff of Staying Competitive

Giant corporations can’t be beat alone. No matter how good…

Interview with Michael Katchen, CEO of Wealthsimple: Leadership and managing rapid growth. Part 2 of 2.

Tengo 20 pero no vivi nada

Tal vez tendre 20 años pero cuando me pongo a pensar en que hice en estos 20 años no logro recordar nada bueno porque tal vez no vivi nada memorable. Me siento tan solo tan sin amigos tan aislado es tan deprimente prender el celular y encontrar 0 mensajes de nadie saber que no le importas a nadie…

Diary of a Digital Nomad

It all started when I was 16 years old. I came across a book with an interesting title that caught my attention…

How to create an exceptional workplace culture without the gimmicks

Remote Responsibility

It’s been a log time since I’ve worked in an office.

Since moving to Portland in early 2012, the vast majority of my work has been performed remotely. While I’m currently working as part of a fully distributed team (with members in Chicago, New York, Germany…

Jak jsme si užili první letní Company Day

Minulý měsíc nám přinesl hned dva Company Daye. Ten červencový jsme totiž měli z…

The most competitive zip codes for renters

You have to be persistent to land a rental in these coveted neighborhoods

Most people know what makes a neighborhood great, whether it’s parks and affordable housing or public…

The Entrepreneurship Opportunity in Egypt — 3: B2C Tech products: are they free or sell-able?

Money makers or money pits?

Don’t Write a Single Line of Code

Important Lessons for First-Time Engineer Founders

Does this sound familiar to you?

1. Get an idea for a business.
2. Run the idea by some friends and co-workers who…

7 Personality Traits Startups Look For

We will never tell you enough: being successful and efficient at your job definitely has…

How to Transform Your Business for the Digital Age — Unleash the Last Mover advantage.

One of the unspoken problems America faces is that it developed too early. it’s urban environment constructed on the…

The Makings of a Lady Boss

“Sometimes, it takes balls to be a woman”

Those who have a passion for antique furniture will tell you how it makes them feel connected in some way to their past. Like the time you raced with your father to be the first one to…

Q2 2016 ‘Dev-Native’ Funding Roundup

We’re halfway through 2016 and funding for dev-native(1) companies is up more than 12% over the…

What if my partner takes off with the source code?

More exciting partnerships, sponsorships, and opportunities!

The importance of giving feedback in startups

Giving and receiving feedback is one of the most impactful contributions inside…

Хорхе Букай: Главное — это дать себе свободу быть тем, кто ты есть

Известного аргентинского психотерапевта и писателя Хорхе Букая читатели и критики называют «профессиональным утешителем»: его книги…

What we learned about ideas at the Knowmads

Last week, I was lucky enough to spend two days working with Tribes 12 and 13 at the…

Going East: Will The Chinese Market Be A Bumpy Ride For WeWork ? | TMTpost

WeWork’s predecessors in…

Ahí está el problema, Chato…

Algunos piensos, preguntas o dudas que he tenido a lo largo de mi vida. Están relacionados con problemáticas…

NRE for equity is a dead end for everyone

From time to time startups told me that their EMS companies wanted to invest in them…

What role should the Canadian government play in FinTech innovation?

Late last month Ottawa sent two very different messages to the financial technology (FinTech) community. The first was from Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development, on June 14th…

Stop Blocking Your Company’s Growth

To build a successful engineering team you need three things: a solid engineering culture /…

Early customer acquisition — Do things that don’t scale by Paul Graham

Recruit

• Recruit users manually first — perfect the product first before scaling
• Collision installation — don’t wait, setup for your customer to try it out

DirectScale Officially Launched, Announces $4M In Series A Funding

We’ve been at this for awhile and really see a huge opportunity to serve this underserved market.

Clef Website Redesign

Clef has launched a new website and a big brand update that is representative of our growth into enterprise markets. Here, we unpack the site and give you a little background info…

Pulling a Beyonce: What the “surprise release” says about Modern Marketing

Avocode at 500 Startups; Week #10: Paradox

Last week can be summed up in only two Missions, which are surprisingly contradicting…

Why You Shouldn’t Incorporate Your Startup, Just Yet

The PayPal Mafia

This is the world’s most powerful mafia that you may have never heard of. Its power doesn’t come from guns or violence or its…

The 3 Most Common Early SaaS Mistakes (And How to Avoid Them)

Entrepreneurship and Design

What can designers learn from successful entrepreneurs? What can entrepreneurs learn from successful designers?

Why I started Guitar Design Challenge

Did you notice that all guitars tend to look like Fender or Gibson? And sounds like all the…

Navigating the Pros and Cons of Hiring Older, More Experienced Employees

One of the easiest ways that we can gain a competitive edge on rival employers is by considering hiring older, more experienced…