Well this sucks to write: This. will go offline at the end of the month.
I’m tempted to make the explanation for that complicated, but it’s pretty simple: we worked ourselves to the point of exhaustion, struggled to raise money and just ran out of time. The site, newsletter and…
For our existing customers(AdServer and PivoxIO) — My team would be working as earlier. My involvement in customer engagement would work as earlier. I would be involved part time in PivoxIO. We have stopped…
Carousellというのは、シンガポールのメルカリ。…
VP of Corporate Development Don Harrison: The Secrets to Get Acquired by Alphabet
This week, a group of funders got together in Philadelphia, for the first time, to discuss software infrastructure.
We had a range of funders in the room, from philanthropic foundations (Ford Foundation, Sloan Foundation, Media Democracy Fund) to…
In May, Colony competed in the Consensus 2016 Proof of Work Pitch Competition. We said going into that…
Interview with Mr. David Margendorff | Co-Founder of PawnHero Philippines
In the Philippines, pawning jewelry, electronics, mobile phones and gadgets with a…
We are excited to be expanding the BlueYard team with an Analyst position. This is a two-year role based in Berlin, supporting the team in backing entrepreneurs that decentralize markets, empower users and liberate data.
“I’m not interested.”
Toute personne étant impliquée dans une startup ou ayant vécu cette expérience le sait, il y a une…
The single most important job of a software manager is to hire the best people and retain talent. That’s it. All the rest comes in second. However most young managers have a fear of…
Story, story…
Yes, you have to say “stoooooorryyyyy”.
“The only way to win is to learn faster than anyone else.” — Eric Ries
John Gannon, a well-known “connector” in the VC job-hunting market, is launching a new academy: GoingVC.
What is GoingVC, you might ask? Well, it’s a mentoring program, an exclusive VC network, and a job placement service all mixed into one. For an annual membership fee, an aspiring VC can join a cohort of like-minded…
Top of the morning to you! We’ve got a splendid set of featured apps this week (especially because two of them are built with message buttons). Our first app helps sales teams get quick insights on prospects and leads to close deals…
Acordamos na semana passada e os anos 90 tinham voltado! Do norte ao sul, leste ao oeste…
หลังจากที่เราได้แนะนำให้รู้จักกับ peer-to-peer lending กันไปในบทความที่แล้ว (มารู้จักกับ peer-to-peer lending กันเถอะ) ในบทความนี้ เราจะมาแนะนำให้ทุกคนรู้จักกับการกระจายความเสี่ยงในการลงทุน…
“I can’t eat and I can’t sleep. I’m not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?” Ned Vizzini, It’s Kind of a Funny Story
Entrepreneurship is fraught with a lot of hype.
Beberapa minggu ini, kalangan startup (dan mungkin kalangan lain, saya kurang tau, soalnya yang berisik ya temen-temen startup juga) ramai memperbincangkan Gerakan 1000 Startup yang diluncurkan Kominfo bersama Kibar yang ingin membuat 1000 perusahaan baru di…
What do you picture when you hear the term “User First” ? We often hear people say “That company…
Five valuable lessons from our first Bento Cam release after being in development for six months, and why having a private beta might or might not work for you.
I once had an idea, that many cars with drivers sat idle in their parking spaces in offices around Jakarta, waiting for their boss. What if we could utilise that idle fleet as a sort of on-demand car service for people who need them?
I first heard of EezyNaukari when it came to our college, Kanpur Institute of Technology, to hire interns. We were told that the Founding team will be coming to interview us and the job location would be Kanpur itself…
A startup journey through different perspective!
We don’t have the cute story of college friends becoming founders. We are not born out of a startup…
If we were in an elevator today…
For a little over a year now, my good friend Maria Gibbs and I have been thinking about issues of innovation, (social) entrepreneurship, human-centered design, community, and much more. Both coming from the intersection of civil engineering and…
My mum always told me not to go inside strangers’ home but we STAYED at a complete stranger’s…
buzz ってた記事。投資先が多様になってきている今、next big thing のサーチモードに入ってきているという説。
以前のサーチモードの時期の例としてはインターネットバブルが終わった後の 2002 年とかで、Clean Tech とか Nano Tech などに多様化したけどリターンが出ず。で、あれよあれよと Facebook や Twitter が出てきてソーシャルが、そしてモバイルが出てきてアプリやシェア領域が盛り上がったという過去が参照されてます。
Lúc mới bắt đầu khởi nghiệp vốn là 1 trong những nguyên tố đặc biệt mấu chốt đối với các thương lái trẻ bởi khi này họ có đông đảo dự định và hoài bão muốn thực hiện nhưng lại không có được số vốn nhiều để có…
Diversity Math
A model of how bias propagates in the recruiting process
Tech startup teams often suffer from the many limitations of having a monoculture —…
Week 1: A Recap + A Big Announcement
It’s been a year already, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
From high intensity discharge lamps used in commercial farming, to power saving carbon…
Every Friday I write a few notes about what’s going on inside Convivio, as we’ve decided we want to work…
Let me start by introducing myself. My name is Charles Boyd-Bowman, and I am based in Hanoi. My passions are innovation and investments. When you combine those two components, you have part of the equation for a successful startup foundation. Another vital…
Original Interview: http://www.techiesproject.com/dan-miller/
Today was my last day as Program Coordinator at AlphaLab, but … tomorrow is my first day as Digital &…
Inspired by Anna Marie Clifton’s writing, I also decided to jot down my learnings more often. You can find topics such as…
One of the initiatives we launched as added value to the $199/mo subscription for TourAndEventWebsites.com (TEW) was an online community. With TEW being so incredibly niche, we’re able to bring all of our subscribers together in one place. They…
Michael Scott, of The Office, is one of the greatest fake bosses in TV and actual history.
He treated everyone in the office with respect.
“…The life of any startup can be divided into two parts — before product/market fit and after…
Things are starting to get hectic!
It’s been a big week for the software team.While writing the software for the B1 units it took forever to generate a decent Windows installer, and the auto update feature was pretty buggy. We expected redoing these two…
Esimene kuu Myitkyinas on lennates läinud.
Eelmisel nädalal akadeemilise kirjutamise tunnis arutasime õpilastega, kuidas abstraktseid mõisteid nagu vaprus või sõprus tekstis lahti seletada ja näidetega illustreerida. Või näiteks casual Friday või holi festivalid…
The area of investing that we at KEC spend the most time thinking/talking about is how to measure a founders resilience, perseverance, grit, tenacity and overall toughness. I received an email yesterday from a founder who originally reached out to me over a year ago and has kept in touch since…
Esta semana diré que he trabajado mucho y bien. He cerrado varias tareas que llevaban varias semanas abiertas y he de decir que es un gustazo.
Adeeb Shams and Saqiful Alam are two of the trend-breaking youth inspiration of Bangladesh. Adeeb Shams, Founder of Harriken — a tech startup providing one-stop solution to restaurants and dining options in Dhaka — and an MBA from Georgetown…
Over the past few weeks our team at Engine Digital has been hard at work developing our own digital product, Serjio.
This is a topic that has no shortage of commentary from the VC community. At this point, I expect most founders to have a reasonable understanding as to what early-stage investors at each stage expect to see in terms of metrics and financing history — admittedly there’s variability, but…
If you’re interested or involved in the tech industry, San Francisco and Silicon Valley are on your radar. Ain’t no…
Thankfully being a part of the NASSCOM’s 5th batch, WeDoSky had the opportunity to be present at one of their networking events in…
I always have great expectations when I fire up the Uber app. Instead what I see is a ever more confusing UX…
Why You Should NOT Invest In Our Upcoming Equity Crowdfunding Round
Our goal is to make our fundraising campaign one of the most transparent crowdfunding…
A few months ago, we were facing a huge problem of managing our ‘work’, in one single place. We were using more tools…
This post is copy of my quora answer — https://www.quora.com/How-necessary-is-a-co-founder/answer/Sandeep-Mukhopadhyay
Gaurav Gupta’s answer to How necessary is a co-founder? is really good and gives insights to why one should have a co-founder. I…
I was inspired by Pieter Levels blog post 12 Startups in 12 Months. If you haven’t read it you should…
Good features don’t always deserve to be in your product - an opinionated summary.
What you create should be governed by what you’re trying to achieve. If you don’t have clarity of vision and a belief in its…
We’re getting closer to being ready to ship batch 2 printers! All parts except redone bridges have now arrived at our office, and we can really make progress with the assembly process.
When we were children, the adults asked us, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” We gave answers like, “A fireman!” “An astronaut!” or “A professional baseball player!” No one said, “I want to be compassionate!” or “I want to be a good member of my community!” Well, there was…
Tenho vários amigos mas um em especial me motivou a escrever esse texto, e espero que possam entender o núcleo…
Communication Technology in the Future: Communicating #Change
How Will We Be Communicating Change in the Future?
By James Harris, guest writer at ProFinda.
Practical tips for founders who are fundraising
Will be publishing fundraising tips every Friday for entrepreneurs who are embarking on the arduous journey of convincing VCs to give them money.
India’s Real Estate sector has been on an unpredictable ride from the boom in…
July 11 — CornerJob raises $25M Series B led by Northzone
CornerJob raised $25M in a Series B funding round led by Northzone. Other participants in the round included e.ventures and Azteca, who is specifically aimed at…
“If you want to be interesting, you have to be interested”
Austin Kleon
Sometimes, you have a problem. A problem that itches and maybe even hurts.
The kind of problem where you wish “wouldn’t it be cool if…,” but then you follow that up and it’s clear that it’s either too difficult or would take more time…
You’ve got a great idea for an app. You’ve thought about it, maybe made a few notes, and you’re ready to get started. Inevitably the question arises, “How much is this going to cost me?”
A Paris, de nombreuses communautés de startups animent les rues et dynamisent la ville. En l’espace d’une décennie, pas moins de 23000 entreprises ont vu le jour et ont attiré un investissement total de 2,5 milliards d’euros. Parmi elles se…
At the end of my 6th week (which was my first group project week) at General Assembly’s(GA) Web…
メモがてら。UC Berkeley のが素晴らしかったので。お勧めは★をつけてます。
★Harvard Business School
★MIT (Spectrum)
★University of California, Berkeley
El vendedor de telas Si usted cree que es aburrido ir con su madre a comprar telas, no se decepcione, pero hay algo más tedioso que efectuar dicha acción y es sencillamente venderlas. Lo primero que debe saber es que son pocas las personas que van a adquirir géneros (como lo llaman aquí en Chile) sabiendo específicamente lo que requieren, el…
Did you know how Amazon Web Services was born?
In early 2000s Amazon was growing quickly and hiring new software engineers, yet they were still finding, in spite of the additional people, they weren’t building applications any faster…The…
This is the intro I’m considering for my book “How You’ll Save The Music Industry”. I’d love your feedback. Thanks!
Throughout the life of Tings, we have never owned or rented offices, opting instead for the life of…
Over the past few weeks we’ve been busy assembling printers and rewriting the software. Everyone has been really focused so we’re keeping this update short.
Production Update We have the majority of printer parts at our office in Canada now, but we are…
“Connecting students to a brighter future”
This past February, OHI/O sponsored GiveBackHack, a weekend-long event that brings together passionate community members to develop sustainable, technology-based solutions to some of our most pressing social issues. At GiveBackHack Columbus 2016, the…
Happy belated Canada Day, and Happy Independence Day!
We have some great news — we are ready to ship to earlybird batch 2 backers! Those of you who are earlybird batch 2 backers will have already received an email from Kelly regarding shipping…
Í nýjasta tölublaði Viðskiptablaðsins er birt viðtal við mig um nýsköpun í starfandi…
Videos are becoming an important tool to utilize when promoting a product online. Cisco says that by 2020, mobile video will…
“If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity, but you are not sure you can do it, say yes —…
If it can be imagined, it can be created. As creative minds have risen to positions of power within companies, or created companies as a result of their creative endeavors, it was simply a matter of time before the architecture…
Lite App provides millennials with a platform that helps them learn about personal finance in a simple and engaging way. That’s the go to one liner, but in all honesty Lite is much deeper than that. Time to elaborate….
”If you are someone who is creating something from nothing, you will encounter the darkness at some…
During last week, the NoiseCrunch team has continued to work with the customer side of the business canvas model. We have decided to be even more specific with our customer segments and have reduced it to the following segments: • Restaurants• Open officesThe team believe that there are…
I’m writing this prematurely, because I don’t have all the answers figured out yet. I’m writing because I’m starting to suspect that nobody has it all figured out. But there are a few things I know.
This is the fifth interview in our ‘Zealify Career Hustlers’ series. To learn more about the series and why we are sharing these interviews, have a read of the series launch post.
One of the recent positions that I’ve heard is the idea that a company is too small to need to worry about fostering a healthy culture and building employee relationships with managers and team members. Some potential reasoning for…
We are inventors, entrepreneurs, engineers, investors, researchers, and business leaders working in the technology sector. We are proud that American innovation is the envy of the…
Hello les startupers !
Building a product customers really want and marketing it to them are the most difficult parts of launching a startup.
Watch them interact with their natural environment, then come up with a design that fits gracefully with their related activities and needs.
One of the biggest mistakes well-meaning organizations tend to make is ask their customers…
Yesterday I should have worked hard to get our little startup running. Help with the first press release, improve the prototype and…
Lúc khởi đầu xây dựng một đơn vị mới các nhà khởi nghiệp trẻ sẽ siêu bắt buộc việc kêu gọi vốn, bởi vốn sẽ là sự chắp cánh cho sự thành công của mọi dự định cũng như những hoài bão để gây dựng nên sự nghiệp của mình.
Marketing your startup has to be constant. Manage employees and keeping customers happy, startups usually don’t have the time to create and implement a marketing campaign that drives brand engagement, generates leads, and boosts…
Greetings All !
In this week’s newsletter, I also want to introduce myself to you. I am Harshit Bandhu…
Creating a mobile application seems to be extremely simple: you only need a good idea and an experienced mobile app developer. However, when you look at it closely, you notice that your idea can be implemented in…
The Leader. His courage. Yes, end of the day, that’s THE differentiator.
A courageous leader -
「Mind 访谈」，是 MindStore（微信号…
When running a business with multiple task and assignments, not being able to delegate your work can be a mess. Now you can stop being messy and start being organized with this intuitive project management software…
When your June update comes in July, you know it’s been a full month.
HITLIST UPDATES
Debuted our new ‘City Guides’, in partnership with Condé Nast Traveler. We’ll continue to add content from select…
The events of the past two weeks around the globe have left many feeling alone and helpless, including me. I’ve felt a mixture of disbelief, anger, and mostly sadness. It’s impacted my day-to-day and makes what we are doing feel trivial.
Tunde walked into the office that morning with his trademark laxity, in his book, everyday was a good day, some were just better than…
Yes to everything here. The talent myth Malcolm Gladwell talks about juxtaposed against wholesale corporate intercultural illiteracy AND broadly superficial interest in professional equity (that often belies a deep seated disinterest in true equity) leads to the garbage contention of unavailable talent of color. Very sad to hear otherwise intelligent…
A few interesting strategic patterns in this excellent profile of the CEO of Niantic, creator of Pokemon Go.
VCs judge a company’s fundability by a test commonly known as the ‘truck test’. Loosely explained, if a truck runs over a company’s founder they invested in, they will lose all the hopes of getting their money back (let alone the hope of seeing their investment grow)…
I applaud your words. Tho my “black” brothers and sisters will never like anything you said. But what i really liked is #1. We as a people need to figure out who we are and stop letting white people tell us who we are. True indeed we are not african and we are not americans either. We need to be taking our case to the U.N. and start the process of…
Communicating with clients and coworkers internationally is different than working domestically. Time differences, cultures, and language barriers complicate cross-border communication. One of the more subtle but big differences is what tools…
Many new biotechs start off as virtual companies. But at each stage of development, you always…
Since modern school schedules were invented, kids have looked forward to summers off. Instead of enduring hurried mornings, kids look forward to the days when they can sleep in, take their time getting ready and spend the day playing…
On my first day as an intern at Hummock Island Shellfish, I was handed a pair of boots and gloves and told to “go clean the upwellers.” Having absolutely no background in oysters, shellfish, or any sort of farming to speak of, I had no idea what an upweller even was, much less how to clean one. My two…
Petang itu bawah hitam berkelip bintang bintang dan lampu kota temaram.
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“Eh tadi pas kita lewat Masjid Baiturrahman adzannya merdu banget..” ujar Arin memecah keheningan sembari bersiap meminum Froyonya. Arman berdehem diiringi anggukan pelan tanda setuju.
This short post is part of a nine part series: 9 Things I Learned While Starting My Own Company and Keeping My Day Job.
Para nadie es secreto que un cambio en nuestro trabajo puede traernos tanto beneficios como dificultades. No todo es color de rosa cuando cambiamos algo en nuestra vida: siempre nos encontraremos con algunos retos o dificultades que nos hacen todo…
Note: This post was originally published in 2014
One of my goals in life is to live like a digital nomad for some period. For those ones who are not familiar with this term, a digital nomad is a person who hasn`t traditional 8–4 working time. This person can work…
This is a guest post by Rishi Khiani, CEO and Managing Director of Antfarm, the business incubator that is home to Scootsy, a popular intra-city service that delivers from the best restaurants and stores in Mumbai.
In his classic book Think and Grow Rich Napoleon Hill defined a mastermind group as, “The coordination of knowledge and…
How to pick the right business software solution for your projects. See the list below to help you focus on the type of industry specific software you need. Once you know what software is best for your task…
In this article for The Next Web I talk to entrepreneurs in London about how the aftermath of Brexit…
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Looking for well vetted healthcare management software solutions, here are some tools to test. If you run a medical center, clinic or home healthcare service, these software solutions can be the key to better managing your…
Lo recibí con felicidad, aún sin entender su origen o propósito
contenía dentro de si las maravillas mas enternecedoras, aquello que cualquier ser humano aspira con el…
One of the things potential founders should do before they start a new company is competitive research. Are there companies doing the same thing & how would the founder’s business be different? Not asking this…
Bhavik Bansal: Very nice of you to share such a good insight on the problem faced by many engineers of product companies.
I agree that, instead of taking in the whole library we should only pick the modules that we need from it. And thorough understanding of the library’s code and its limitations should always be considered…
We had blink in beta for a while before we launched and a lot of people have made some really great stacks. Here are just a few of my favorites from the beta:
Sounds like a great opportunity! We’re going to try and signup. Not sure what our 1 minute video will be yet. Hope our app is up to par :)
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This year has been an interesting year for me because I have been through as many roadblocks as anybody the…
Now, you need customers to keep them updated about your new releases or that product you have been waiting to launch. Here you will see that I focused this post on creative and beautiful Contact Forms. Each contact form is has it’s own…
