“What is your Product Strategy? YOU NEED A STRATEGY.”
When I replay this scene in my head, I can hear the CTO very audibly yelling (slash pleading) with our product team. He was on edge. We had been experimenting towards a very concrete goal for two…
If you read articles on career development in software, you’ll already know there are many things a senior engineer is not. They are not, for instance, just someone with ten years of experience. They are not just someone who maintains a popular open source project. They are not…
I love to present. Love the Big Show, the Dog & Pony, the Old Razzle Dazzle ’Em. Occupational…
Cuando estábamos a punto de empezar a construir un mercado para comprar y vender Bitcoins en Chile, nos preocupaba que el bitcoin fuera legal.
Lo primero que hicimos fue correr a preguntarle a los amigos abogados. La respuesta no era fácil de…
Because you might be interested in picking up a side gig.
Whether you’re responsible for managing your company’s social media accounts or…
Wait, how did we get to four?
The first agricultural revolution is generally the one we think of as the agricultural revolution, when ancient (~8000 BC) people started to domesticate plants and animals. This period coincided with the first…
On June 2nd 2015, Wunderlist announced its acquisition by Microsoft. As a founding investor and co-creator of the first product version, I…
By Isaac Madan
TLDR — I’m moving to Australia; I’m joining Airtree Ventures; cue gushing over the people and trajectory of the European startup scene…
After 5 wonderful years in London, Karen and I have decided to move back to Australia. The…
We are pleased to announce Thrive V, a $700MM fund to support transformative businesses at all investment stages.
Just as we have across our first four funds, with this new fund we plan to incubate businesses (e.g. Cadre, Maple, Oscar), partner early from Series Seed to Series B with…
Formatting a retention data set is critical whether it’s for yourself or in a situation like a job interview. Once you’ve asked all of the questions necessary to understand the data set, you…
We’re launching Republic today, an online platform where everyone can invest in innovative, mission-driven startups curated by our team.
Chewse calls itself a love company. But, given the refrain of how fast growth kills…
Ever since 8 years of age, I have had a low eyesight number of .75, and been suffering at the hands of prescription glasses and eyewear making and selling stores that always claim to be the best and promise me that they will make my reading glasses on…
What we’re all thinking yet don’t like to admit.
Vieš, čo majú spoločné React, Slovensko a úspech? Chceš vedieť, ako vyrásť zo študentského projektu na úspešnú firmu? Zaujíma ťa, aký je život startupistu a CEO? Čo je na ňom najťažšie?
How students in India are learning engineering by building real products while in…
Wenn du einen Facebook-Account hast, dann wirst du sicher schon mal morgens aufgewacht sein und hast in deiner Timeline einen dieser “Heute vor 3 Jahren”-Erinnerungsbeitrag gesehen. Da sind bei mir oft belanglose Dinge dabei, ab und…
I’m sure you’ve had an idea for an app or website before and thought to yourself “This…
Republic goes live today. Read on below and about our vision from our Founder, Kendrick Nguyen in his Medium Post.
I’ve always known some day I’d build my own company. I knew it was going to be a part of my journey, but I was…
trail·blaz·er: a person…
We’ve been grinding in NYC for the last 4 months working on the latest iteration of our product.
Public Full Node Release Candidate
Miyamoto Musashi was a badass samurai with 60 duels and 6 major battles under his belt. In…
Originally published on Startup Grind
The original version of this post has been published in French on July 14th, 2016. Thank you so much Bartosz Jakubowski from XAnge for offering me to translate it into English.
Three weeks ago I started doing CrossFit again (insert eye roll here). I know, people who do CrossFit love talking about it, almost as much as people who are gluten free. I can make that joke because I have Celiac’s. I would kill someone for table bread at a restaurant. I am getting off track…
Reid Hoffman, the co-founder and chairman of LinkedIn, said once that running a startup is…
Almost 3.5 years ago, Jonas, Daniel and I set out on a journey to transform the way people communicated using video. We started by iterating on multiple ideas until we landed on one that stuck, Dubsmash. It felt like overnight, people around the world experienced the product and began…
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西元1637年 法國的皮埃爾•德•費馬 （Pierre de Fermat） 在一本拉丁文版的數論頁面空白處寫著：
Muita gente não entende o porquê de eu me envolver tanto com eventos como o Startup…
Edit: It came to our attention that we didn’t mention we offered the IOTvillage an edited talk with one drone and more information on other subjects.
Someone recently asked me how Ola managed to grow as fast as it did. Many would argue that Ola grew…
By any measure, the impact of today’s new luxury businesses and entrepreneurs has been gigantic.
Musing: To contemplate thoughtfully — —
I started Focus Asia — community to connect entrepreneurs, makers & do-ers in Asia last year. Right…
Em tempos de crise, é preciso redobrar a atenção quando o assunto é iniciar um negócio…
From an idea to successful business
Na correria do dia-a-dia às vezes esqueço que a abeLLha tem somente 7 meses de vida.
If you’re a SaaS business owner, you’re very familiar with the “5 C’s” of SaaS metrics — Cash, Churn, Committed Monthly Recurring Revenue, Customer Acquisition Cost, and Customer Lifetime Value…
So, you’re done:
You’ve typed in those final lines of code. Ironed out few technical problems beta testers have reported. And uploaded that last interface revision.
In 2007, I was living in Miami Beach, just above 42nd street. A nice, tony area. Manicured lawns…
A Greenfield project has no prior constraints, it’s something that hasn’t been done before…
In the previous post, we had a look at the size of registered investments made by Venture Capitals into information security companies and start-ups over the past two decades.
By Phone2Action Co-Founder and CEO Jeb Ory
By Harry Chan
個人的に気に入っているサービスをおすすめする記事です。
起業家は一人で事業をしているうちはプロダクトや開発に専念出来るのですが、ユーザの課題が明確になり、そのための製品を作ろう、継続的に改善していこう、売っていこうとなるとチームが必要になってきます。
会社というチームに人を巻き込んでいくためには、様々なタスクが出てきます。例えば、入社の手続き1つとっても、
Not too long ago, a bunch of enthusiastic folks, brave enough to follow a dream, played with the concept of a ‘fashion social network’. They brought together a huge pool of users, creating a social feed around what is trending and how! It took us no time to welcome more than 2.5 million users…
To start things off, I was in no way told to write this article or am in anyway affiliated to the DBS Hotspot team. But rather, I would want to share the thoughts behind a startup that undergoes a bootcamp from decision to pitch day, particularly when…
“Welcome aboard! Here is your laptop. Go sell.”
Uma das principais publicações de negócios do mundo, a Harvard Business Review…
Consultants believe,
“Hard work isn’t a substitute for a solid…
When Dos Equis made the decision to retire its “Most Interesting Man in the World,” perhaps it was because the company knew he just couldn’t compete with our Taylor Aldredge.
Máš podnikateľský nápad, ale stále odkladáš jeho realizáciu? Cítiš, že si chceš vyskúšať podnikanie alebo freelancing? Chceš byť v budúcnosti nezávislý a užívať si slobodu?
This is the first article in a series on creating consistent, reliable growth over a long period of time.
Posted by Joe Garza on 2016–06–30
Are you thinking about leaving your job to start your own company? Don’t dive into the world of entrepreneurship just yet, as you should assess your goals…
Have you ever told someone you were going to the gym and then not gone? Have you ever…
Do you feel like you’ve exhausted and struck out with the entire available employee…
What began as an experiment last winter has officially grown into a cornerstone for the…
As a startup that has to grow double digit week over week, we are forced to follow our metric’s plan. In…
At HyperTrack, we are building SDKs and APIs for developers to integrate location tracking into their workforce and consumer apps. To build a service that developers around the world can trust and rely on, we are always looking to hire the best engineers. I’m extremely…
Zhongguangcun, near the 4th ring of Beijing, was just a suburban area, not too far from the Summer Palace where the Qing Dynasty emperors took their excursions. Even twenty or thirty years ago, it was merely known…
If you’ve been keeping up with our 5 steps to become a customer success hero, you’ll know that we’ve already covered the location and timing of NPS surveys.
Last month, Aquent Gymnasium hosted an awesome event, Designing for Real People: Making the Case for Meaningful UX…
Oddshot-worthy moments aren’t always 40 seconds long — for example it took only roughly 3 seconds for TimTheTatman to fall off his chair — so now you can trim your !shot to get exactly the moment that you wanted!
I sat down with Jessica Kim, the talented and successful…
Directors and officers insurance, or D&O, covers things that aren’t included in your regular general liability insurance. Say your company has a product, digital or physical, and someone is hurt as a result of that product. Your general liability…
Who hasn’t lived the ridiculous situation of printing a document, signing it, scanning…
Something that I’ve actually been asked while pitching for work is “What does a Business Analyst actually do?”. While I won the work in that instance, I was never happy with the answer that I gave at the time. I managed to babble something out about how a BA was the…
There are a plenty of places to see in New York but Central Park will remain one of the major landmarks that amazes and attracts not only NYC tourists but loyal New Yorkers too who make frequent visits to the park. According to Wikipedia, Central Park is the most…
It’s been a year since my wife and I moved to Los Angeles. We love it here. The people and places are [wicked] awesome.
Everyone admires the underdog. From movies like Rocky to comedies like Silicon…
Juntos por la equidad, para dignificar, crecer y difundir el trabajo de los escritores de Nuevo León
Travel trend or simply the hot work reality for a growing generation of freelancers, entrepreneurs, (and yes, employees with side-hacks), frequent travelers are mixing R&R with how they are earning a…
Skryv is ready for a next phase. We grew to a team of 10 and are doing some great work! We also see a lot of further simplification potential in various administrations … which we want to make reality!
Chaque semaine, NUMA, Le Figaro et le cabinet de conseil Taddeo proposent Le Crash Test, une émission dans laquelle les jeunes entreprises du Web viennent défendre leur projet.
Human and vehicles have had a love-hate relationship, not least when it comes to inherently lazy humans taking care of their hard-working cars. But, perhaps some things are not what they seem. Most of the cars spent is…
How we connect inner-city, underprivileged Los Angeles high school students to resources at USC long term
Economies are moving at a very fast pace in recent times and globalization is firmly…
Ideas come and go — you have many and even went forward to building some you felt can change the world.
Among many ideas, there is always one that stands strong and you feel it’s the right one to pursue. Once you have this, the next step is to…
While last week we focused primarily on bug fixes and enhancing our data collection processes, we did manage to squeeze in a few new things for you all.
My senior year of high school I had this constant desire to start something. Anything really. I would talk to friends that had similar desires, but we all had one thing in common. We hated the idea of failing and wasting precious time…
Starting a role as a new product manager or hiring a new one can be a big step for a company. It is key to plan ahead to make the most of this role so it can quickly become an effective asset to the company.
We’ve all seen the alien E.T. ride a bike over the moon, but have we all used our iPhones…
Not just Medium writers. I find myself unable to stand most online entrepreneurs and anyone telling me how to be successful, just like them.
Throughout my career as an agency lead and as a manager at Google and Twitter I have worked with a lot of startups and I see a familiar pattern: a company receives its first round of investment and promises ambitions…
Late noon today, I found myself telling my friend and “partner” in entrepreneurship, what the one compelling reason is for me to launch myself into starting on my own instead of being an employee all my life.
I don’t really know John Hanke. I met him once, when he visited Tel Aviv for DLD festival 2012, and spent a few days enthusing the Israeli tech scene about Field Trip, Niantic’s first effort to build an awesome outdoors mobile experience.
El próximo 20 de septiembre más de 500 personas serán testigos en Ciudad de México de cómo el…
That’s right… I don’t smoke then why does it feel like I just stopped smoking…
Intellectual Property is one of those things that can really damage your funding process.
For example, you hire a developer on contract. You sign a nondisclosure agreement…
Envying the Efficiency, Economy and Integrity of Logistics Services in Foreign Countries
In my country, it’s not easy to send a package to anyone — even if that person lives in the same city. You would think that, “Oh it’s just a dollar…” but that’s only if the parcel’s as heavy as five sheets of paper. I really envy South…
By Abigayle Raucher
Our company Webconnex has been around for 8 years now and when our cofounder’s started this business they…
The purpose of this particular post is to create a framework that helps aspiring entrepreneurs to evaluate the likelihood of finding money at the end of the journey they are taking up. While this blog is about financial…
Be wrong today. Tomorrow you’ll be right. And if you’re not right tomorrow, then you’ll be the day after tomorrow…
The TapChief journey was set upon from the hostel rooms of BITS Pilani, amongst the heavy miasma of processed food(stale more often than not)…
Many traditional companies have been struggling to create disruptive innovation… and failing. Mainly because the essential ingredients for disruptive innovation have been absent from this companies DNA.
Hi, I’m Neil, the CEO of Ramp (we’re trying to make the process of buying t-shirts for your team quicker, smarter, simpler and more transparent), and we recently spent three days with a significant presence on the front page of Product Hunt, and I’d like…
Last couple of years we witnessed initiation, proliferation and eventual demise of the term…
The Net Promoter System, or NPS, uses only two surprisingly simple questions to great effect. So how exactly does it work?
It is easy to go slow. It is easy to bide your time hoping that someone else will do the actual work…
If you haven’t found a good way to get your ideas across, it can feel like you’re running in circles.
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Can a tidy workspace affect your productivity?
Does anyone actually like working surrounded by clutter? If you do then how do you cope? I’m not really a…
This post originally appeared on Forbes.com. This post is part of a series about effective management practices and how they benefit both companies and the people that work for them. Laura Faulkner contributed to this article.
First, you ask what is DBS Hotspot? The DBS Hotspot Pre-Accelerator is a programme designed to help startups in Singapore through experimentation, mentorship and training. Out of >250 applications, 29 teams are…
Not everyone spends a Sunday finding ways to get rejected but that’s exactly what I did at Rejectionathon.
In the process, I learned a ton about myself, my comfort levels, and about the general kindness of strangers.
Snapchat is one of the most misunderstood companies in the unicorn stable today. If you’re over 35, you probably don’t use it (and this author wishes to thank in advance the team of interns who helped make the first-hand research of this…
“If you want to be a successful entrepreneur, don’t chase the money,” says Tomas Gorny, a serial…
My company, Candor, Inc wants to help you create a culture of great feedback. In order to do that, we think you need to give feedback, get feedback, encourage feedback and gauge your feedback.
Most of the founders I talk with on my podcast, The Build, didn’t start their companies with huge investors behind them. Sometimes, they had a stockpile of cash from a previous “exit,” or from a nest egg they saved up from a day job. But, most of the time, they just took the resources…
(Todo é inventado)
O Concello de Miño soporta unha débeda de máis de 25 millóns de euros, algo difícil de dixerir para os habitantes desta pequena vila de apenas 5000 habitantes. Sen embargo, o alcalde Ricado Sánchez, o…
When you’re small and poor it’s tough to get known. Small businesses and startups face the same challenge when trying to grow or change. The good news is, startups play with a few advantages: Network, a clean sheet and and nothing (or not much yet) to loose.
Tesla is famous for their electronic vehicles, and they heavily promote the fact that they use no fossil fuels. Yet despite all the hype (and actual advantages) of using a non-traditional engine, that is not…
The Equidam Weekly is a curated collection of readings delivered weekly to bring you the most informative articles on EU growth companies, early stage funding and generally on how to…
En este tutorial usted aprenderá cómo realizar y explotar la inyección de Blind SQL paso a paso de forma manual con ayuda de expertos de seguridad de aplicaciones web y seguridad en base de datos.
As we continue to expand upon this new generation of entrepreneurs, it is…
If you are wondering whether you are born entrepreneur or yet-another wanterpreneur. Chances are high that you fall into second category. To help you solve this dilemma I have listed down some checklist to end your Wanterpreneur/Entrepreneur dilemma.
Coming soon on Kickstarter
