When the story of how I landed a job at Airbnb went viral, I was surprised at how infatuated…
By Hubert Chen
for Investors & Startups, by David E. Weekly, written mid-2016
Hi! I help run two separate syndicates on AngelList; drone.vc (focused on drone tech) and neuron.vc (focused on applied deep learning). Many people are unfamiliar with how…
via Muzli design inspiration
How do you go about setting the context for the feature or capability your product team is going to build? To…
還是可愛小朋友的時候，我總是以為，創業只要有網路就可以賣到全世界啦。長大一點我略懂略懂，啊，有些文化啦資源啦市場啦不是那麼簡單的事。
This is a true story about us raising our seed round for Talon.One. The following happens:
We are in talks with couple of investors, some drop out because they don’t like what we are doing, some what other terms etc. etc… Finally we have two investor…
In today’s world, you are probably living under a rock if you do not have some inkling of how severe a problem “Identity Theft” is. Most likely you, or someone you know, has had their personal information used against them in some way…
We removed the blog post that analyzed WeWork’s business metrics using alternative web data.
If you have any questions or would like to contact us, please visit thinknum.com or email jzhen@thinknum.com.
We’ve been trying hard to keep Zenreach under wraps while building and scaling the company, but are excited to finally pull back the curtain and show you what…
As we announced earlier this year, the teams of Earlybird and Heilemann Ventures have joined forces for a brand new Early Stage Digital West Fund. With our joint investment and operational experience, we are looking to back the…
Updated: July 19, 2016
Everybody’s heard of Blue Apron, and most of us have an UberEATS habit. But how does an Austinite go local when demanding food?
You’re not that busy.
Bootstrapping in SaaS it isn’t that hard, per se. It happens all the time.
Companies like Atlassian and Qualtrics have cruised past nine-figures in ARR (and IPO’d in the case of…
a16z流「こんな会社になら投資する」の本音と建前
なんて仰々しいタイトルをつけてしまいましたが、最近とある起業志望の大学生から相談を受けたところ、彼は自分自身でもa16zなどの海外の大手VCの動向をよく見ていてすごいなぁと思う反面、彼らのポジショントークというか本音と建前がよく見えてないのかなと心配になったので、a16zの共同創業者であるBen Horowitzの2013年2月の講演資料”Why Do We Invest in a…
“The company you are building should exist forever” is a failing preconception. The few companies that managed to stay alive longer…
Yesterday, I learned a valuable lesson: jobs don’t love you back.
Anu Hariharan and Jeff Jordan cover marketplaces and consumer sectors for the a16z. They spoke with with Sonal Chokshi about network effects, which they define as what happens to startups when “as more users join the platform, the platform becomes more valuable to…
Anova is quietly outpacing and outperforming our smart kitchen rivals to become the leader of the category. We generate more…
Is it worth your time to read this?
I’m fascinated by tech ecosystems, and the network effects behind them. I wrote about Berlin (here) and about Paris (here) But of course, as an NYC venture capitalist, I’m particularly interested in New York — I wrote about the strong NYC data…
You can now join a Slack community for Pokemon Go. The future is here.
This is Part Two of the Rocketrip story. In Part One I spoke about Rocketrip’s strategy to educate a brand new market of buyers via content marketing and customer evangelization. In Part One I also made mention of the complete alignment of incentives for…
Aiden has always been a rising star. From a modest, working class household in the Midwest, he carefully labored his way to the top of the educational and professional worlds.
Four years ago today, I hit publish on MizzenAndMain.com with the goal of building the next great…
When I woke up this morning, I thought to myself that I had been oddly silent about my newest venture as a founder and CEO. For the infinitesimal cohort of folks that remember my time at burrp!, and to a lesser degree at FreeCharge, I wasn’t shy about…
What do Lean Startups have in common with Chinese characters? By the end of this article, you’ll have learned a new visual vocabulary, inspired by Oriental wisdom, to help grapple with challenges in your startup journey.
You’ve heard of…
It has been a very long time since the last time I wrote anything in the public domain. The last time I did so was when I…
Money. The more the better, right?
“Every life seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow? As tall as it possibly can…
It’s summertime, and Facebook is awash in summer interns getting a taste of “real world business” in Silicon Valley.
Summer of Tech is a non-profit organisation devoted to connecting tertiary students in New Zealand with 3-month paid internships during their summer break. Xero is extremely proud to have been a sponsor every year since 2007, when both…
¿Cómo se diseña “empatía”? Con pocos sentidos a la mano (no se puede cambiar el…
A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes.
Among all those classes, assignments and other shenanigans, college life just whizzes past leaving you in a total haze. You can make clever use of this time to chase your passion and build a life on your terms. No time like college to give a…
Hi there!
As a Nest Collective follower, you’ve probably seen that some companies here were promoting a bunch of Summer Internships. Not much time elapsed since we though about creating our own separate Summer Internships…
You don’t have to be a hipster from California to be an…
Atualmente, é quase impossível sair pelas ruas de qualquer cidade grande e não ver pessoas jovens…
I spend a lot of time around a lot of rich people. I live in Manhattan, work in industries like tech, politics and venture capital and sit on non-profit boards. And even though I’m surrounded by it, I’m always surprised…
So it’s gonna be foreverOr it’s gonna go down in flamesYou can tell me when it’s overIf the…
To start with, you should be able to answer clearly: whom do you see as your…
April 1st, 1976 was by no means a joke. It was the day that a man named Steve Jobs founded Apple…
There’s no denying we’re already in the first phase of a global AI revolution at this point. This statement is in fact true, regardless of how sophisticated your understanding of AI is. We choose the term deep-learning since it’s much more…
How to analyse the answer of question B with the results of question A
Ecosystem investment rises, but not where it is needed most
By: Robert Adelson
“Sentiments” is a tool you can use to get feedback from your users and for the first time they will love to give it.
Christoper Froome, Vicenzo Nibali & Bradley Wiggins tienen algo en común, son los últimos ganadores de Tour de Francia…
…but it isn’t a great thing either. I recently wrote a working paper together with Demos…
Uli Erxleben |LinkedIn
ขอเกริ่นก่อนนะครับว่าผมค่อนข้างหงุดหงิดมากเวลาที่ได้ยินโฆษณาของทางธนาคารออมสิน หรือการโปรโมตจากทางรัฐบาลเกี่ยวกับการผลักดันให้คนรุ่นใหม่พัฒนาธุรกิจด้วยโมเดล startup เพื่อเป็นการผลักดันยุทธศาสตร์ “Digital Economy” ที่ทางรัฐบาลได้วาดฝันไว้
Every day at Jelly, we’re working on ways to make it easier to connect people with helpful answers. We want to make sure everyone gets their answer with the least amount of time, energy and interruption spent. That’s why, today, we’re announcing browser notifications.
Entreporn, a term brilliantly coined by Amy Hoy holds us back from our true…
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a bootstrapped entrepreneur in possession of a good business model must be in want of an investor.”
Just a short post today.
While scanning my way through some social media outlets, I had to pause.
Are things really this bad?
梅雨が開け、晴れの夏日が続いています。現在モロッコ、マラケシュの日中の気温は、連日46~47度を記録しているそうで、想像もできない暑さです。マラケシュに暮らす人々は、暑さのため、早朝と夕方の時間にゆっくりのペースで働いているとのこと。そんな中、今月は6枚のベニワレンが届きました。今回は、smallサイズ(約2,0x1.2m)のものが二枚と、largeサイズ(約3.0x2.0m)のものが4 枚届いています。
I’ve heard people say, “India is a country that can’t be explained; it must be…
How accounting works in most companies…
I was going into my second year of college and my buddies and I were just about to…
Here at Charlie we’re always excited to introduce you to ideas and individuals that are shaping the future of work. Today, meet the guys who are helping you to…
ข้อมูลจาก CBinsight พบว่าเงินลงทุนใน Health tech นั้นเติบโตอย่างต่อเนื่องมาตลอด ( ปีนี้ดูเหมือนอาจจะลดลงเล็กน้อย )
Are you afraid that your efforts at gaining a job are driving you to a dead end? That ‘tarmacking’ isn’t just a reality in real life but online as well? Many people start up their profiles as experts online to get…
My End of Tour. #LinkedInLife
Transformation of self.
With the introduction of new businesses and technology, the strange can become normal and…
It’s been a year since I attended Draper University. Time flies so fast!
I went through my phone gallery to post a throwback on Instagram only to find a photo of my “Dream Wall”.The “Dream Wall” is the first thing you are…
I just got off the phone with Brian (real names redacted). Below is an approximate transcript of how our conversation began after the initial pleasantries.
Him: Let me start off with a…
Our latest investment takes a fresh, “Fintech” look at Payroll and Benefits!
Werbung zu machen ist nicht das Ziel dieses Beitrages … zumindest nicht für uns oder…
Vision statements: “We are doing … and aiming to be the best in … and our customers…
Implemented ideas differentiate businesses from their competitors.
No dia 18/08, realizei um talk sobre minha empreendedorismo no evento PME em Pauta da Gazeta do Povo e Endeavor…
AlwaysHired Expands Team as Tech Sales Bootcamp Grows
Sales Leader Jason Vargas joins AlwaysHired as Senior Advisor and Weekend Sales Trainer
Two weeks ago we made a decision that got a huge load off my back.
To a small business entrepreneur, work means juggling a never-ending series of moving parts. It…
Hi,
Wepic has an important message to share with you today.
Wepic started exactly two years ago with the simple idea to capture a moment. No vanity numbers, no filters: it’s “me now” — at the center of Wepic is you, your everyday moments happening…
Nhằm giúp mọi người có thể dễ dàng tra cứu điểm hơn, dichvumobile đã tổng hợp lại các cách tra cứu điểm thi trung học phổ thông 2016 các bật phụ huynh có thể tham khảo nhé.
It’s been a pretty incredible last six months for the Bunker Labs DC team (see: Harry Alford, Ray Crowell, and Emily McMahan). Most notably, we revamped, launched, hustled, and delivered our Spring 2016 cohort. We watched the growth of companies like Nautilus…
By Melanie Ewan
So here’s the thing. When you work for a technology company, it’s very difficult to explain to your friends and family what you do.
https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=F0OVpWItH7k
Muitos empreendedores querem começar na Ecotrend sem saber da forma correta, pois não fazem a menor ideia de como…
Having taken on the almighty challenge of running two viable and exciting businesses, I’ve realised that I don’t need…
Heilemann Ventures and Earlybird VC Join Forces
Posted on 26. April 2016 by Earlybird VC Blog
This is a very special day for Earlybird as we proudly announce the merge of Heilemann Ventures and Earlybird.
Let’s face the truth. Building a startup is really hard.
There are too many things to do with too little time and no money. You need web developers, copywriters, growth…
Большинство нормальных людей столкнувшись в жизни с экзистенциальным кризисом (ну там в погребе закончились запасы 30-летнего Макалана, или…
学び方＝勉強の仕方？ それを学ぶ？ってこと、何それと思いませんでしたか。
私が学んでいるtoiee Labでは、
To learn more and apply to work at Jackpocket, visit: Jackpocket Careers, and you could soon be a part of our growing team!
Over the last couple of years, it’s been a popular topic among business publications to ponder whether Chicago’s tech growth makes it a bit like a new “Silicon Valley.” I believe it is becoming one — the HBO version of “Silicon Valley” at least.
Hi Asim, thanks for the primer on Microservices. We actually spent the last 2 years and about $25 million rebuilding our global video platform completely from scratch using this approach. We also organized the Product, Dev, QA teams similar to how you describe with folks working across a microservice. Everything is automated including tests, so we’re…
Back in January, I made a few predictions for 2016 in between crafting theories for “Making a Murderer.” When it came to social media, I bet that 2016 would be The Year of Snapchat. I haven’t regretted it for a moment since.
We always want our team to be a reflection of our dream and vision. When we sit back and look at the way it is functioning right now, there is always a gap. In some places it is small and tiny and in some places it is vast…
There has been a consistent amount of importance given to User Interface Designing and Prototyping in the recent years . Design needs to be elegant and simple in order to make users transact specially in e-commerce portals
Simple accounting and financial processes that are fun? SMACC makes it possible. The SMACC software allows small and medium sized…
Coastline’s inventory management and e-commerce platform has been in private beta phase for several months. During this time, we have made continuous improvements to meet the core needs of our beta clients. Today, I would like to share the…
The business model we proposed — and with it, the app that seams it all together — would be incomplete without the partners that offer the benefits. What we propose is relatively simple: discounts and benefits to those who help maintain that which keeps the tourism afloat or…
OK so I made it through from beginning to end. Very rich, all over the place and yet focused at the same time. You wove a carpet with 100 threads on this post /philosophy / business plan / retrospective / futurologist exercise / action plan / Buffett deconstruction / brief history of the (tech) world. Lots of food for thought. Now you need a new name…
At Alfred, we’ve been hard at work building a service that makes the luxury of a…
En tant que membre d’une force militaire d’élite, vous devez vous battre pour défendre la Terre contre les agresseurs halo 4…
→ Yann Girard
Sometimes it’s about showing your vulnerabilities instead of your strengths.
Sometimes it’s about about doing your own thing. About finding your thing. And doing what nobody else is doing.
Startups are great at coming up with innovative ideas, but why don’t they ever do market research?
“A startup is a human institution designed to create a new product or service under conditions of extreme…
Did you know that ‘culture’ is the 11th most popular word of all time in Merriam-Webster’s dictionary…
Good Co-founders are the Hardest Pokémon to Catch
There is a common belief amongst entrepreneurs that having a co-founder is essential for building a…
In India, we have a culture of supplementing middle-school and college education with ‘coaching classes’…
The hard truth is that the vast majority of startups will fail. A business can…
At the end of a relatively long day, I drove miles into the hills, past some beautiful redwood groves, to a house in the middle of nowhere to meet a bunch of smart people who were building a.... Hardware startup. The office was a house way up in the hills. The engineers were set up in the living room of the house, the CEO's desk was a dining table…
どの企業も文化を育成していくために行動規範や価値基準などを掲げているかと思います。
例えばfreeeさんの「本質的（マジ）で価値ある」、サイバーエージェントさんのmaximsの「行動者のほうがかっこいい」、Wantedlyさんの「Simple is not Easy」。どれも私は好きです。
会社の価値基準は検証できる物がいいと思います。そして、上の3つとも、検証可能であると私は考えています。これらに共感してくれる人かどうかは、過去のその方のお話をお聞きさせていただけばTrue/Falseで…
Search and Discoverability in the Post PageRank Era
Chatting with my buddy the other day about his company’s blog, I suggested that he consider pushing their content via…
Preface: This text was translated from German. English is like German with other words. So I declare the following is English. Grammar won’t be perfect … but I hope the bottomline is.
Each month, Capitol Post interviews a veteran-owned business to hear the good, the bad, and the ugly on creating a sustainable and scalable business. This month, we spoke with StreetShares, who funds small businesses loans and lines of credit, backed by…
Coworking boom has caught up with literally everyone who is into workspace management, real estate or office design business. Some entrepreneurs are putting big bucks into creation of super-efficient and magnificently…
Startup founders everywhere lay in their beds dreaming of taking their company to stratospheric heights, gracing the cover of Fast Company (or Entrepreneur Magazine, or Inc.) and hiring dozens upon dozens of new employees to fuel their exponential growth. Everyone is aiming to be the…
Done right, Growth Hacking is good science.
Create a testable hypothesis, test it in a controlled environment, and if your hypothesis is demonstrated valid and true: test it again.
“How do you know what to find if you’re not sure what you’re looking for?”; it’s an age old…
This was originally posted to LinkedIn on July 4, 2016
A slightly different angle for the ever excellent Tech Hub at Campus London’s…
Parisian streets are alive with energetic startup communities. Over the last 10 years, 23’000 new ventures have attracted €2.5 billion of investment. These include BlaBlaCar, the first French startup to achieve a $1 billion valuation.
This an excellent article. Honest. Timely. Well written.
I learned to code the legacy (dare I say the easier) way— i.e. going to school and getting a PhD in CS. My partner did the opposite. She learnt on her own. Here’s her story her conclusions are very similar to yours!
Your Salespeople Hate to Prospect? Who Cares! (You Owe It To Them Not To.)
Aaron Ross has no clothes.
Now if you don’t know who Aaron Ross is let me explain. The author of the tech sales “bible”, Predictable Revenue, validated lazy salespeople everywhere when he said salespeople shouldn’t prospect…
As Hello Alfred neared its first year of operations, we thought we’d celebrate with an…
Weeks 4, 5 & 6
Yep, you read that title right! By the middle of week 6, we are halfway to Demo…
Early this month, I heard Guy Kawasaki’s “The Art of the Start 2.0” talk at Stanford. Surprisingly, till today, I still remembered a lot of what he said, which made me decide to share some deep-graved notes. I will mostly share insights from the Q&A part…
Author: Vivekanand Pani — Cofounder & CTO, Reverie Language Technologies
I am sure you have been in many discussions, where everyone has their own idea and the ideas are not converging.
The topics could be some technical challenges, picnic plans, dinner places, etc.
In recent years, I have seen hundreds of Indian startups emerging; many of them are either successful or showing positive trend. The ecosystem of startups (Angel investors, VCs, Incubators, Accelerators ,Growthhackers, Evangelists etc.) has grown…
Following our most recent expansion to YouTube Gaming (read more), the next step was to expand our range of…
Forgetting that meetings in an enterprise environment are different.
Uber優步 是一間互聯交通公司，乘客可藉由其app預約搭乘，其行動程式能追蹤車輛位置、瀏覽各司機與車輛資訊，透明化搭乘資訊。
2016年6月獲得沙烏地阿拉伯主權財富基金「公共投資基金」高達35億美元的投資後，其市值已高達680億美元。 2013進入中國，目前涵蓋中國21個城市，佔中國共乘市場1/3。早期業務限於高端豪華車(BENZ、BMW)專車搭乘，2014年推出“Uber X”(中階車專車搭乘), ”人民優步”(拼車搭乘)，業務的車型開始擴展到中低端。
There are many factors to consider when deciding your MVP features: Feasibilities, efforts to develop, ensuring evidence-based decision making. These are all vital…
2014シーズンの終戦を告げる笛が鳴った瞬間、キューバンは何を思ったのだろうか。シーズン中に行ったトレードも歯車が組み合わさったとは言えず、事前の記者の予想通り1stラウンドで敗退を喫した。
優勝を逃したシーズンから、今に至るまでマブスの補強は一貫していた。FAでは大物プレイヤーを狙いつつ、安価なベテラン選手や他チームでうまく機能していなかった選手をミニマムで獲得し、次世代のローテーションを作り上げようとする。しかし、プレイオフに出場し、今後を担う可能性が出たとしても、その選手の契約更新は厳しい…
We originally planned to outsource fulfillment to a warehouse in LA that we visited and liked. We figured it’d be logistically easier and save us time. I didn’t give much thought to it again until recently. Now I’ve changed my mind and want to do fulfillment ourselves…
It seems like everyone outside of my immediate circle is all Slack all the time and it’s all love. I’ve been using Slack for two years — it’s pretty far from what I’d call a loving or fufilling relationship. I can only assume I’m doing it wrong — which I’ll get to at the end.
1. Flexibility and Adaptability
A major advantage that small businesses have over larger corporations is adaptability. Less inventory, fewer employees and flexibility with brand image means that they can move quickly to alter…
