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I often used to tell anyone that asked that Catster.com was the best big online community on the Internet. Dogster.com was well above average, but Catster was amazing. Tens of thousand of people speaking daily on the Internet without ever fighting, or…
Hardware is expensive to build, complex to produce and has to be perfect from the beginning. Additionally, hardware is often merely a Trojan Horse to sell software. Software, by contrast, is boring, abstract and has to endure more…
via Muzli design inspiration
In case you’ve been too busy with Kanye/Taylor Swift gossip, a start-up called Dollar Shave Club (DSC) just got bought by the international consumer packaged…
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In the previous blogposts, we had a look at the amount of registered investments in information security start-ups and companies, but also at who were the top investors into security…
Я умный! Нет, не так. Я, блять, гениальный!!!
In the pantheon of business books, Geoffrey Moore’s Crossing the Chasm ranks…
Yesterday it came out that Unilever is acquiring Dollar Shave Club (DSC) for $1 billion in cash for what is probably the biggest exit so far for a direct-to-consumer brand. Garnering a 5x revenue multiple, capturing 5% market share, and achieving…
If you have been working in the tech or media sector since the late 90’s you probably remember a web site called FuckedCompany.com set up in 2000.
Fall Seven, Rise Eight — Japanese Proverb.
You’re going to fail and you’re going to struggle. It’s critical you understand failure is not endemic, it is a stage which can be progressed though. Whether you think you can, or think you can’t —…
(Disclosure: This is likely more helpful for folks who have never worked at a tech…
Compiled data and commentary around the fast growing tech and vc markets in the MENA region
I’ve always admired the consistency and nuggets of wisdom that U.S. founders and VCs are able to communicate through blog posts, tweets…
This week, we’re getting coffee with Suzie Prince. Suzie is Head of Product at ThoughtWorks Products — where she started as a graduate in 2005. Suzie writes for Mind The Product, is an all-round badass, and a fellow Brit in San Francisco.
Next month, it will be 3 years since Swapan and I first started building Haptik. Over this time, the company has gone through various stages, twists and turns and I am sure there are a lot more to come. One of the elements that has probably seen more changes than anything else…
A designer’s guide to Parkinson’s Law of Triviality
文/莊佳宜
首先，非常感謝老師這學期的教導，每堂課都充滿著深度的反思與答辯，以下是我這學期探討議題與學習想法總報告，期待未來還有機會向老師請教。
A while ago, I rebuilt SnapChat using Facebook’s React Native.
Why? Because it’s cross-platform, it’s javaScript, it’s great.
We teamed up with TechCrunch to give away 2 free tickets to this year’s Disrupt…
Bridge for Billions is the online incubator for early-stage entrepreneurs to…
The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise — Tacitus
The second mouse gets the cheese! — Terry Pratchett
Living an entrepreneur’s life over the past few years, I have constantly pushed myself to create a world class, global product and company. But I have always wondered why is it that very few Indian…
It is easy to rush into building a company.
Куда поехать, если задолбался и устал? Если целый год по городу мотался, с ног до головы заколебался, долго и много работал, вел социальные сети, был активным, но потом села батарейка и теперь хочется ни-че-го? В Клайпеду. Тут идеальное ничего.
In Germany there are too few entrepreneurs. Single reasons such as high tax hurdles, little unbureaucratic funding, or the fact that few women and migrants establish businesses, contribute to this finding…
→ Yann Girard
He asked me what he should do.
I said I don’t know.
He just graduated from college. Had a good job. A beautiful girlfriend. But he felt somehow stuck. I don’t know why we all seem to get stuck these days…
Writing this post is not easy. It’s something that I’ve thought a lot about in the past year and it’s time to come out and say it. Goodbye, Apple, I’m leaving you. It’s been fun…mostly.
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Just If you have a team, & you have no experience on how to deal with it. Well, if you have experience, just check If…
Top 10 Tips to Maximize Your Career Success
A few days before the UK voted to leave the EU, I wrote a welcome blog as the…
A few pointers for everyone who have never been to Web Summit from somebody who has — and is not going to return there ever again.
I wrote this while taking a class in the Information School at UC Berkeley
When it comes to investing in startups, venture capitalists constantly operate in a world of hidden information. The ability to…
I guess you could say I’m obsessed with flight. You know how some kids go through a phase where they spend nights building model airplanes, intently tracking jets overhead and helicopters as they fly by and dreaming of pulling Gs and doing barrel rolls? I took that a bit further.
Around 3 years back, as our team walked into the executive board room of India’s private largest bank to pitch the idea of Connaizen to the who’s who of the Indian banking scene, our nerves were certainly higher than our confidence…
We are often asked if we see equity crowd funding as a competitive threat to early stage…
Gandhi Ji once said, “The future of India lies in its villages”.
As part of my work at FirstMark, I have the privilege of meeting a large number of talented people who are interested in startups. If that describes you, please join our Talent Network now to apply to 60+ innovative companies across the country and world with a…
What can white people do to show that they support the #BlackLivesMatter movement to some extent? No one has outright asked me this question, but after sharing recent posts of mine like this on Facebook, I’ve…
I worked at a startup and one day I go into the kitchen and one of the guys says, “Someone broke the toaster.”
This post was written as an homage to http://a16z.com/2012/06/15/good-product-managerbad-product-manager/. We all read it and felt it changed something in the way we set expectations.
Interesting PhD Research Topics in Human Resource Management
This post originally appeared on the Kissmetrics blog.
You’ve heard that marketing automation can help you nurture leads, increase your conversions…
Many times every day, and hundreds of times every year, we pour hours of our time into meetings. And yet, for all this time spent in meetings, we haven’t gotten very far in making them better. At their worst, meetings can be huge time and productivity sinks. Too often, we leave meetings…
See App #1 and App #3
I have decided I will create 1 web app every month. I have “finished” my second app and it is live.
Here is App #2 of my series of apps (app 1). It is the same stack and very similar template as…
by Benson Fan
When building any startup, founders should always look for mentors and advisors that…
They say time flies when you’re having fun and time has certainly whizzed by for me since the beginning of May! Over the last couple of months, I’ve been getting stuck into the vibrant startup scene in London and flexing…
One of the goals of INITIATE is to boost the voices of founders and entrepreneurs…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVwW6mG9_zY&t=2s
“It took us about 18 months to get permits — the no-objection certificate took the longest. One of the things that took a long…
No começo deste ano nós liberamos o acesso à conta free do Planrockr e com isso foi possível coletar feedbacks dos nossos novos usuários. Aprendemos muito neste processo, entendendo como poderíamos melhorar a ferramenta, que funcionalidades eram importantes, quais eram nossos gargalos…
Culture…yawn.
Some quick bullet point thoughts on Dollar Shave Club getting acquired by Unilever for $1B:
I have met a lot of people who have great business ideas and want to plunge into the start-up ecosystem. And many of…
by Sunil Shah
Kenya has demonstrated high potential for a thriving creative economy. The creative economy is broad and includes fields such as tech, music, arts, media, fashion and publishing (Kenya needs to agree on its own scope of what constitutes the creative economy). This…
At dinner several years ago with long-time friends, I dug into brick-oven fired pizza while we spoke…
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…
After months of waiting for the Oculus Rift to ship — and a few more weeks to find a retailer with nVidia GTX 1080 in stock — I‘ve finally gotten a taste of VR. I put it through its paces over the past week in both passive and interactive media (read: VR videos and video games)…
Sometimes we create as a form of play, for fun, or to satisfy unguided curiosity. Other times we create with a purpose, an intent to move the world in a direction we want it to go.
モリニュー氏は日本についての思い出をこう語っている。「日本では信じられないことに、タイトルテーマ音…
As you probably already know, we’ve come up with Skriware to make 3D printing available…
There are plenty of places to share pretty food pictures, but what about the communities that are looking to forge deeper connections?
Today we are launching the alpha of a new product — Tonkean Tracks!If you are a startup founder, this one is a must have!
We live in a world obsessed with margins. Obsessed with ROI, measurable returns, and maximizing efficiency. With cutting costs…
Things going wrong on a continuous basis, things breaking, and near-death experiences is a typical day for a startup. No matter what happens each day, you MUST stay sane when leading your startup, especially if you are…
As the ITT Tech commercial states, give us more $$ than it costs to attend USC or Harvard and you MIGHT be qualified for for an ENTRY level job in the tech industry. So cut your est. Of “qualified candidates” by 50% best case 80+% worst case..
483 newly classified institutions in the 2010 classifications (from a universe of…
The thought that makes every product and service different from the others, lies in the hands of the marketing team.
After a long brain storming and creative hunting session they come up with something which is unique and distinctive. But to…
A year ago today, I joined the BuyerDeck team. I knew I was embarking on an adventure, but I had no…
お金のお話①
新しく事業を始める人は「どのくらい儲かる？」とか「どれぐらいかかる？」とかで、どこかしらお金を意識するんじゃないかな。
何かを始めようと思った時のお金についての考えには２種類のタイプがあると思う。１つは何かを始める前「まで」のお金、そしてもう１つは何かを始めて「から」のお金なんだけど、たいていの人は何かを始める「まで」のお金のことしか気にしてなかったりする（ひどい人は何も考えていない。笑）
My name is Leon Moralee, I am at Campus North this week on work experience. I have thoroughly enjoyed my time at Campus North. I’ve met a range of people from different countries and cities who all have diverse roles at…
An easy to improve your productivity is by using tools that allow you to automate repetitive tasks. In automation, the…
Startups want to become successful and investors want to invest in successful startups. But how can one estimate which startup is likely to become successful and how can one develop strategies to increase the…
With 9 days left to apply to the IN2NYC program this summer, the program’s applicant pool already…
Hamburg, 20 July 2016. Prominent venture capital firms today announce they have invested €15 million in European fintech company Deposit Solutions GmbH, a fast…
This week we’re excited to officially launch Devpost Jobs in NYC. Our goal: Help developers find great jobs on awesome startup teams.
We’ve always been focused on helping developers grow and thrive — whether that’s by providing a place to…
A couple months ago, my company closed a seed round of investment. It has been an exciting experience as we have…
Mẫu trần thạch cao đẹp cho phòng ngủ hiện đại
Bạn muốn có một phòng ngủ phá cách, nó thể hiện hết cá tính riêng của bạn. Xóa tan sự nhàm chán khỏi phòng ngủ của bạn bằng những thay đổi bắt mắt, đầy cảm hứng nhờ trang trí trần thạch cao phòng ngủ. Phòng ngủ đẹp sẽ đem đến cho bạn những giấc ngủ thật ngon. Hãy cùng tham khảo…
Don’t let her smile fool you: when Meg’s on a mission, don’t get in her way! Like many of the Alfred Client Managers…
A Culture Built for Coders
At Axial, we spend a lot of time thinking about and focusing on our culture. We see creating a positive, compelling and inspiring…
Market segmentation is oftentimes the key contributor to success or failure. Here is how to get it right.
Marshall Baculi, Michala Padgett, and Chijioke “Ceej” Egwim are the founders of Fitr, a mobile application that…
It’s arguably the best time ever in the history of business to be a female…
For over a year now, this thing has been gnawing at the back of my mind, ever since I read this article about the components that make a startup ecosystem work.
In Your Innovation Roadmap, Part 1, I introduced the innovation matrix (featured…
Great post Zach, this has been making the rounds and really resonating with folks around our engineering department. I especially like this point. Our approach has been to encourage engineers (senior or otherwise!) to preclude those common failure modes by virtue of the fact that they will be the ones on pager duty — since we don’t have an ops team…
Originally published at www.exploreathens.online on July 20, 2016.
The value I add to an early stage startup is momentum. Particularly when the founder(s) is non technical.
Having joined 3 companies at an early stage, my objective from day 1 is to introduce new momentum and super charge focus towards delivery.
At the beginning of June I launched l8r, a mobile app for snapping ideas and sending them to Trello.
l8r has been a labor of love. It’s the most technically ambitious project I’ve launched, and building it involved a lot of firsts for me: my first time using the…
Gem Raises $2M to Empower the Next Wave of Developers With Easy-To-Use Bitcoin API
Gem, a Venice-based Bitcoin startup, today announced the completion of a $2 million seed round of funding to accelerate the growth of its recently launched full-stack API that provides developers with a complete solution, eliminating the pain…
The sound of these words would definitely bring a big smile on the face of a person who is born in the generation of 90's. Well, there is no need of a prior introduction of…
第二四半期(Q2)の資金調達事情についてです。Tech in Asia で東南アジアの資金調達事情がよくまとまっていたのでシェアします。
2016年の第二四半期には、東南アジアのスタートアップにUSD3.1億ドルを投資しています。去年の同時期のUSD2.78億ドルに比べると11.5%以上の増加になります。
Howdy, I am Nao from Kobe, Japan.
The ninth book I read this year was Brad Stone’s The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon. It took me roughly a month to finish it, half of it on paperback and the rest on Kindle. It proved a smooth and insightful read.
The last week was spent testing our hypotheses out as well as speaking to people in the industry. The thing about gift-giving that we learned from both our and others’ experiences is that it is incredibly diverse. As such, there are so many areas and variations to cover. We are…
It’s become very normal in today’s global society to connect with strangers via an app to a) get a ride (Uber), b) sleep at their houses (Airbnb) and even c) sleep with them(!) (Tinder).
A crisis is an inflection point in our timeline — a sequence of events are happening not as we expected. This situation can feel sucks, but with the…
While building the Draper FinTech Incubator program I had the pleasure of working with some great entrepreneurs. I am looking to take my experience at Draper FinTech to my next venture unbank.ventures. Here is what some of them had to say about their experience working with me.
Coworking is becoming more and more popular as prices of independent office spaces are…
My name is Jose Alfredo Martin. I am a co-founder of Apadrinaunoliovo.org and a graduated entrepreneur of Bridge…
As designers of products and engineers of experience, are we accommodating the behaviour of users or are we shaping it?
In this interview with Jennifer Rubin, Member, Employment, Labor & Benefits Practice…
“Balance is not something you find, it’s something you create.” Ideally, this is a great state of mind, but how…
There’s a difference when it comes to how we practice. We can either choose to perform in public…
If you are a business owner, you are most likely aware that your business MUST have a social profile on each of the gazillion social media sites……or at least that’s what you’ve been told.
Working from home, being what’s called a remote worker, is a really fascinating frontier of Work. It’s fascinating both because as a paradigm, it creates new challenges, and it also makes visible ways in which more traditional work spaces overcome old…
Многие спрашивали меня, как я могу путешествовать одна. Но если человек может в…
Let’s start by clarifying what we mean by a conversion, and why you should care. A quick definition search in Google defines the word conversion as “the process of changing or causing something to change from one form to another”. So in the case of our website we…
Ultimately you want someone able to act on the CEO’s behalf to make all the day to day decisions on product. They also act to research the requirements of customers and market potential of different idea’s to decide the key priorities at any time.
Don’t forget the most amazing Web Highlighter in the World (And Mars)! 100% approval amongst self-aware squirrels who pickup highlighter pens.
If you are into hotel business or is someone who owns a hotel, you probably must be looking for ways to improve Valet Parking Services for Condo and Hotel Clients. At hotels and restaurants…
You’ve probably heard the following piece of advice:
Surround yourself with smart, driven (…) people.
This is sound advice. Smart people will teach you a lot of stuff that you didn’t know before…
If you ever get married, and I suspect you will, throw this piece in the trash. It will not serve your best interests in that context. It will only be a reminder of the greener grass.
Marriage is merely a legal construct which generates revenue for the state and income for lawyers if the contract is not upheld.
Well written and a great glimpse into the Dollar Shave Club and its CEO. Just fantastic!
Arpit Agarwal, Principal at Blume Ventures. Blume is an angel and seed venture fund that backs startups with both funding as well as active mentoring and support. Arpit is a serial…
Offers budget-to-luxurious Short term rental in select locations
Why you need to PokeCare. Startups harnessing the power of communities and get bored this summer to unleash your creativity.
Why you need to PokeCare.
Given the political climate, it’s hard to pick just one news item over the last week…
As an early investor in Dollar Shave Club, David Pakman spoke with CEO Michael Dubin about the company’s acquisition by Unilever and the journey to this point on the latest episode of Venrock’s podcast…
Words by Wesley HollandImage: Pokémon
Mother’s Day may be the most celebrated time to recognize the important women in our lives, but we at Hello Alfred are…
On Daily Page we see random spikes in traffic and user sign ups due to different blog posts around the web.
We launched Daily Page over 1 year ago (November 2014) and basically just told our friends about it. Now we have over 25,000…
Ever since I was a kid (am I no longer a kid?), I have been fascinated by technology and its applications. I was one…
Ever wonder why so many bright developers in Silicon Valley spend all their time, effort and genius on trying to develop the next Instagram or Snapchat but not trying to cure the maladies that ail humanity as a whole such as poverty…
Failure is a choice. Let’s not sugar coat the truth. Most businesses fail due to owners who don’t…
I was surprised and delighted by the announcement yesterday that Unilever is acquiring DSC for $1 billion. I’m not a subscriber to DSC, but like many I love their video ads and the irreverence of the company. In reading up on the…
