You have just a few days to learn everything there is to know about a subject you know nothing about. Now what?
Some of you who’ll be reading this already know me and my entrepreneurial journey. But those who don’t, here’s a brief introduction to who I am.
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By Gary Shapiro, President and CEO, Consumer Technology Association (CTA)
There’s no magic formula for creating a profitable app but you can certainly improve your…
スタートアップをするときは、会社から始めるのではなくアイデアから始めるべきだ、と Y Combinator の Sam Altman は言っています。なので今回はスタートアップ向きのアイデアを考えるときに参考になるであろう質問集を出典付きで以下に挙げていきます。気づいたものがあれば順次追加します。
これらすべての質問に答えられる必要はないと思いますが、思考の整理には役立つのではないかと思います。なお、ここでのアイデアという言葉の中には、Sam Altman…
Секс-туризм в Беларуси развивается и набирает обороты с каждым днем, в чем причина и какие последствия ?
Статистика, по данным сайтов из интернета, показывает, что популярность девушек из Беларуси для иностранцев, и не только для них, растет с каждым днем.
My grandma Dorothy circles sentences in the local paper with a ballpoint pen, cuts the story from the page…
Material escrito para facilitar el estudio y los exámenes de la Court of Master Sommeliers en español
“Pikachu, I choose you!” is a phrase most millennials know. For those of you who don’t it’s the catch phrase of Ash Ketchum the lead character in the Pokémon TV show. Why is this important? Well it’s the first exposure the masses in North America had to…
A few weeks ago, I moved to Chicago to join the investment team at Lightbank. Although our…
We’re pleased to bring you the NewCo Shift Dialogs, where we talk to the people on the front lines of the biggest shift in business since the industrial…
Despite its reputation as a highly progressive and innovative country, most of Japan is in fact very conservative, and entrepreneurial culture is only slowly starting to develop here. Nevertheless, there are…
The last ten years were about building companies. My career goals were the main focus of my life; since 2012 I was one of…
It was in 2011, and I was searching for an internship for my second year of my Computer Science school.Some friends put me in contact with guys that had a project of a mobile payment company.
After pursuing a venture opportunity for 1.5 years, I am calling it quit and closing the business. It is my first time on a number of levels: first time founded, built, failed and shut down.
How many of us are happy to do a boring mundane Job again and again? No one is ready for it today and every one of us want to get everything done in just few seconds.
tl;dr: Canadian tech startups tend to raise their seed funding from Canadian investors; while their growth capital, Series A, once…
Our planet is one giant Ecosystem. Whether plants, animals, or fungi, organisms tend to exist in a stable balance unless acted on by an outside force. These outside forces can vary greatly- invasive organisms can…
I was about 10 years old. Among the 7 wonders of the world, I learnt about The Great Wall of China. Who can decipher the mind of a child, I don’t know really why this wall captivated me so much — was it the fact that glutinous rice flour was supposedly used to bind the…
“A more diverse, more entrepreneurial economy means a stronger Sacramento: more jobs, more…
In 2014, I moved to Dublin not knowing what my next challenge would be after working in journalism for so long.
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Tapity is in a position to do something completely new after our main product, Hours, was acquired last week.
We know we want to create more products like Hours that we can build into thriving businesses. We also know that we would like to help others build products that we…
To remain consistent with historical precedents, we’d like to take a moment to add to the tomes of think-pieces regarding project estimates. We’re going to discuss a little-known (but…
I don’t do white boxes. I can’t. Blank white offices make me fall asleep…
By Asmaa Malik, EdJ Contributor
Produkt se nám posunul do prodávatelného stavu, a tak nazrál čas hledat k nám do PurposeFly markeťáka. Ve zkratce: jsme startup, dodávající nástroje a služby pro vznik a podporu efektivních týmů. Máme mezi sebou top programátory, zkušené prodejce a entrepreneury…
If you don’t have one, you need a verbal marketing strategy.
Si hay algo fijo es que al menos tienes que comer 2 o 3 veces en el día, y si eres un emprendedor que se…
Probablemente es un tema cultural, pero por alguna razón muchos emprendedores en el país esperan que el gobierno les de dinero para iniciar una empresa. ‘Es que en el país no apoyan’. ‘Los bancos no prestan plata’. ‘Acá es por…
Startups de moda
La vida es una moda. Ser millennial está de moda. Tener una empresa que no genere ingresos y llamarla startup está de moda. Lo que no está de moda, y no porque no quisiéramos sino porque no todos tienen éxito es ser verdaderamente exitoso con alguna o muchas startups.
How does change happen? In the advertising world we’ve been hearing about it for over a decade at least…
We’re happy to introduce a new cohort of Bridge for Billions entrepreneurs about to start their incubation…
Quem já investe ou deseja iniciar a fazer investimentos merece ficar de olho no…
By Vivienne O’Hanlon
Drones and their new surveying technology have started showing tremendous amounts of…
Colin Keeley: As a founder, you always have so many different balls in the air and an…
This is the second piece of a four blog post series, written with the goal of highlighting the journey and evolution of Comprend.io’s CEO and product simultaneously.
Flashback to 2011. Pretend that…
Do you ever wonder if you have what it takes? I do. Although the word startup may appear…
Posted by Joe Garza on 2016–01–11
So much has been written about the traits and skills one must have to be a successful entrepreneur that it’s easy to forget that sometimes it’s the little things in life that lead to the…
Recently, Tim Jackson and I have been conducting interviews with leaders in the tech community about their thoughts on leadership and talent management. Check out The Leadership Pad if you’d like to see the past interviews.
So you launch your startup with a mission and that mission feels good doesn’t it? You have clear ideas about what…
Del 1 de mayo al 30 de junio de 2016
No hi cap tot en un museu
No hi cap tot en un museu. Tampoc hi cap a la memòria col·lectiva ni dins de les fronteres culturals. Allò que, com a societat, escollim per a ser recordat requereix necessàriament d’un procés de selecció que integri aquells…
Being part of the SpeedUpAfrcia Bootcamp was exceptional and one of those periods in my life…
If you’ve watched business movies from the 80’s, you know that when a deal is won someone needs…
Dr. Shishir Shah and Dr. Pranav Mantini are the founders of Behaviorics, a company that provides a software solution to automatically detect and report security camera failures in video surveillance systems. The software aims to improve productivity, reduce security and…
By Patrick Boyaggi
If there’s one thing our stylists recommend again and again, it’s the textured blazer. There are two…
I’ve noticed recently since moving to Australia that other recruiters I talk to think I am “lucky” to work for a company like BCG Digital Ventures who really are driving those buzzwords #digitaldisruption and #innovation into…
This is one of the questions that always crossing my mind, not only by me, probably every entrepreneur who likes to start…
At Forest, we are first and foremost developers. We’ve had the ambitious dream, one year ago, to create a universal admin interface. Our dream was not only about building a product, but also about having it used by thousands. Thousands of our peers, other developers that grew…
I mentioned in a previous post that giving feedback is one of the highest impact activities that you can…
When I was very young, I fell in love. With music. With the cadence, the groove, the passion…
As you might have guessed I’m not one of those selfie-loving teenage boys (ok, maybe just a bit). Anyway, I decided to join Snapchat the other day (@suleiro if anyone asks) just to check out what it’s all about. After a few days I discovered that…
Colin Keeley: Do you have any parting advice for founders or potential founders that may be listening?
You never know when you may have to present your elevator pitch. But no matter how well put your one sentence…
By Amy Westervelt + Julia Ritchey
As rents and the cost of living in general continue to skyrocket in the Bay Area, companies are beginning to look elsewhere to set…
If you’re like most of the guys in the Thread office, you’d do a lot to avoid tucking in your shirt…
From AirBnB to Uber, marketplace businesses have disrupted industry after industry. Their ability…
We live in an extraordinary world, where everything seems possible. We have reached a level of technology expertise that makes even our craziest dreams conceivable in a not so far future.
MY WRITING RESIDENCY: PRE-DEPARTURE, OR WHAT IT TAKES TO GET THE TRAIN OUT OF THE STATION
Hello there,
After spending about a month or so interning in San Francisco and then recently attending the…
The views in this blog post are purely personal. The only emotion the article attempts to invoke is humor.
Every now and then I do some self-retrospective to understand why I consider myself an entrepreneur…
Imagine yourself lost in the wilderness. Nobody around. No signs of where you…
The Department of Defense (DoD) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)/Small…
I have long been convinced that mentoring is one of the most useful, least talked about strategies in business.
Tell someone you’re a professional football player and it conjures up images of Tom Brady. Tell them you work in insurance and it conjures up images of Jake from State Farm. Insurance — like accounting…
一年間23カ国の旅は多くの方にとって長い旅でしょう。しかし山田進太郎氏にとってそれは、「メルカリ」と共に続く長旅の始まりにすぎませんでした。
Call them unfashionable, long, unread, or boring, business plans are still the main way to communicate what your company stands for to banks, potential shareholders, buyers…
I thought I would share this recent interview which outlines some of my fundamental principles and insight from over the years.
Over the past decade, Concordia graduate and Valsoft CEO Ouissam Youssef has…
I joined seven months ago as the lead recruiter for Australia and Southeast Asia. I packed up my life in London to join BCGDV and to contribute to the growth of what I view as one of the most exciting companies to work for in corporate venturing.
Meet Clement Uwajeneza, CEO and Founder of RwandaOnline, and a 42kura’s advisory-board member & mentor.
Sometimes when you love an app so much you have to see what life is like on the other side. So, on June 30th I entered the world of rideshare as a driver for Uber. Call me Uber Mike. The process of applying to be a driver was relatively simple and had me approved in less than two weeks.
Venture debt is an asset class that I feel is ripe for new entrants with fresh models. I’ve long thought a fund under the umbrella of a VC, dedicated for only its portfolio companies would make sense for a number of reasons. As an existing investor, you have asymmetrical…
Last week Wildcat Venture Partners co-hosted Product Sync, a meet-up for Silicon Valley’s top product managers, entrepreneurs, and VC’s.
Following up on our recent launch event where we introduced the Traction Gap, we were excited to share the framework with entrepreneurs and…
By Tim Brunk
Snapchat and Facebook playing ping pong. Fintech serving the ‘unbanked population’ and the latest mindfulness craze to improve productivity.
News(ish)- Snapchat stalks Facebook and vice versa
The process of acquiring a new skill always has a learning curve to it. The rate at which…
Drumroll, please…
We at Snap.hr have joined forces with Workable and are very pleased to announce that we are now fully integrated with the Workable ATS!
For those of you with Workable, this means that tracking a candidate from Snap.hr has…
Incubated projects are born of an academic exercise, a viable target market is…
Луковый пирог. Рецепт лукового пирога с плавленым сыром
Стол на день рождения без этого французского пирога я себе уже не представляю. То есть я, возможно, и обошлась бы, но гости ждут это угощение каждый раз. А друзья моего сына готовы отказаться от сладкого: лишь бы был луковый пирог.Хорошо, когда хоть какое-то блюдо для…
I don’t know how better to write this, than to be as raw as I can.
What the fuck is wrong with investors that think SaaS means recurring revenue?
Have they forgotten that until recently it was extremely rare to hear of a business that…
Being resourceful is having the ability to find quick and clever ways to overcome difficulties. Have you ever…
Original post to: most profitable $500, 1-month investment on Quora.
A lot of people think this has to do with the stock market, money market, or other market related. This is out of the…
If you’ve ever taken an introductory coding course, you know the first task is always to output “Hello World!” It’s not hard, and yet you still feel a wave of accomplishment the first time those letters pop up on the screen. Perhaps it’s the realization that you just took the first step, and well, isn’t…
Parece óbvio mas é muito comum perder o foco e confundir crescimento real com números que enchem os olhos. ACORDE AGORA.
Cuidado com as métricas de vaidade:
Earlier this year, I had the pleasure of moderating a panel event with the growth leads from…
Het internationale fietsenverhuurplatform BimBimBikes zette deze week handtekeningen onder een groei investering van €250.000. De investeerders, die anoniem willen blijven, zijn aangesloten bij de investeringsclub van…
Perfection is a loaded term. Much like its cousins genius and awesome, perfection is…
As a founder, it’s always a little hard to sit down and assess the big picture. Usually we’re so focused on what happened last month and what’s going to launch next quarter or next year that we can’t see the forest for the trees.
Searching for engineering in investment banking vs startups returns so many results on your search engine of choice, that it is clear that many people are curious to know what the differences between them are. So let me preface by saying that this post doesn’t attempt to…
Speed of change is the double-edged sword that makes and breaks fortunes in the technology industry. To those following innovation, it would seem that radical transformations occur within spans of 30 minutes, and an idea that was hot an…
By Harry Chan
What is an emerging market? It sounds like hope and danger bundled in one package. It is…
Building an application is hard. Building a wildly used and successfully monetized application is even harder.
Beyond the technicals of making sure bits and bytes move from place to place, app makers must worry…
So my first post on Medium was about how I was founding isiboo.com, why I was doing it and…
Game-changing application relies on proprietary, next-generation technology
AUSTIN, TX, July 12, 2016 — Apposphere, the first all-in-one cloud-based business application platform, today announced the launch of…
by Thibault Duchemin
Sorry for the delayed response. I guess what I am trying to say is that the CPA should use Integrated Reporting to identify non financial KPI’S and then to demonstrate how those non financial KPI effect the profit and future cash flow of the company.
Damien, j’imagine bien que ton principal débiteur après les salaires de ton équipe c’est l’URSSAF… et que ce qui a du déclencher cette procédure c’est le fait de se dire que dans quelques mois Save ne sera plus en mesure de payer les salaires et les charges… Et là tu penses à tous ceux qui parlent des cadeaux faits aux patrons…. au fameux CICE…
As you can see from the screenshot above, around day 15, about 2 months ago, I created a placeholder for day 50…
Julianne Brands
In the last ten years, we’ve been lucky enough to see successful exits of our portfolio companies. Of these exits, we’ve noticed a particular theme — 10 of them have been SaaS companies.
Kelowna’s got good stuff going on. It’s beautiful, for one. Four seasons promote a healthy work/life balance and active living. There’s also a growing economy, a booming tech sector, quality educational opportunities……
The reduction of current and future costs, the improvement of customer satisfaction, global expertise, risk reduction, and startup enablement, are key goals of the third party logistics industry (3PL). To achieve…
You mayalready know that there are a number of companies who claim to be experts in the injection molding industry. Because there is more than one company that you can choose from, it can be difficult to decide which molding company…
I urge people to take a look at what ArtLifting is doing. Not selfishly because we’re investors, though I’ll take that as well, but because I believe they represent the role the private market can play in solving major social issues.
When implementing an ExO, the ability to manage high latency conversations in a more effective way is crucial. After all, you are building a global business by default. This has never been more true than it is today when…
You know the value of and how to measure the Net Promoter Score, now you need the responses from your users who would like to give you feedback.
These users do not want to fill out a survey, but one question with a metric and a…
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