Or is it all downhill from here? Have I jumped the shark?
Do you remember that one time you had a meeting where everyone was prepared, knew the objective of the meeting, and truly valued one another’s unique contributions? Sure, these meetings…
“Women as a Market”
Bad investors ask about market size.
L’exercice de création ou de refonte de son logo pour une marque a toujours été périlleux. Au-delà de la…
The life of an entrepreneur is exciting. It has constant ups and downs and often many surprises. When it’s good, it’s great and when it’s not…it can sometimes be a lonely place. The reality is that when you actualise your visions…
หลังจากที่เราได้นำเสนอบทความที่เกี่ยวกับ p2p lending กันไปบ้างแล้ว ไม่ว่าจะเป็นการแนะนำให้ผู้อ่านรู้จัก p2p…
6/30 當天，心元資本創辦人鄭博仁 (Matt) 受邀到 2016創業小聚年會分享美國的新創趨勢，除了數位時代這篇報導提到的創業者思維，Matt 希望透過心元投資的公司，補充分享美國創業者的思考方式，以及心元資本在不同市場的投資策略。
全面的創業者思維造就了矽谷
心元資本投資的物流創新 Flexport 和航太衛星 Astranis 等皆在團隊只有一兩個人、產品僅有概念規劃的時候，便融資了超過五百萬美元。很大的原因來自於美國環境的「創業者思維」。
On July 17th Cliff Josephy made the final table of the 2016 WSOP (world series of poker) main event or as its better known, the November Nine. They call it the November Nine because the final nine players have to wait until November to play each other for the gold bracelet. Cliff is…
民间传说红糖能够补血，所以有些妇女，特别是产妇，都习惯喝红糖水，认为这样就能够避免贫血。网上有文章说，现在市场上卖的红糖都不是真正的红糖，是用赤砂糖冒充的，赤砂糖是用白砂糖加了糖渣做的，就是红色的白砂糖而已，没有红糖的营养价值。然后有记者去采访一个网上著名营养师，说红糖的功效虽然没有那么神奇，但是红糖的营养价值的确要比白糖更高。是不是真的这样呢？
在回答这个问题之前，我们先来了解一下红糖是怎么来的。把甘蔗榨汁，然后熬煮，水分蒸发了，甘蔗汁被浓缩，成了糖浆。糖浆结晶出来糖晶体，剩下的棕黑色的液体，叫做糖蜜。用传统的土办法是没法把糖晶体和糖蜜完全分离开的，得到的糖晶体都会…
In this section I go through the method used during this research project to answer the research question “How might we enable startups to build their culture?”. I touch on subjects like my scientific approach, implementation, analysis, diversity, and ethics, along with a…
Last Friday night, amid an unlimited flow of coffee, tea, energy drinks, beer, rolls, cookies and pizza, a group of people got together, yelled at each other, talked, laughed away the stress, and continued the excitement well into the wee hours of the following day.
Ask me what I do. Chances are, I’ll leave you more confused than where you started. See — I’ve been a…
Melbourne is the marketplace capital of Australia, having produced a stable of…
Today I share some difficult news: Monday Envelope will cease operations at the end of July.
Parent engagement is the number one predictor of a child’s lifelong academic success. However, it is unbelievably…
Il y a deux mois j’ai eu la chance d’être interviewé par un jeune entrepreneur qui m’avait…
My brother is the smart one in the family.
Unlike me, who only flirted with the idea of going to law school, he did the time and got the degree. Unlike most law grads he didn’t go to a firm or join the in house legal team at a big…
Je m’appelle Mouhidine SEIV, ou « SeivJobs » pour les intimes, 24 ans, mauritanien, arrivé…
In short, what’s needed to enable startups to build their culture is setting up a habit of a reflective and experimental practice based on conversation, self-exploration and empathy where the outcome is explicit behaviors that aims to reach the…
I started my tinkering with hardware first. As a kid I used to trek down to the “electronics bazaar” in New Delhi, known as Lajpat Rai Market, and go store to store to try and find the components I needed for whatever I was building. It was both fun and…
매미 우는소리가 아직은 반가워요. 시원한 사무실에 앉아 창으로 불어 드는 바람과 함께 들려 그런가 봐요. 그래도 바깥은 꽤 더워 보여요.
여름에 어울리는 시를 찾아봤어요. 류시화, 김용택, 나태주 시인, 이해인 수녀님 시를 한편씩 읽다가 그만뒀어요. 다시 어라운드에 접속했어요. 평소 북마크 해둔 글을 천천히 보기 시작했어요. 여름에 딱 어울리는 글 2편을 발견했어요.
Last year my wife and I were struggling grad students, and to top it off, I’d lost my Visa sponsorship…
People often tell us they don’t need help. “I don’t need a butler. I’m not the 1%, and…
How do you explain culture? During my primary research and talking to people within the industry I can tell it’s hard to define. Most times people sigh deeply and say “I’m not quite sure”. Culture is very fluffy and abstract. But as soon as you throw the word “startup” into the…
Amazon has launched its Prime Now service in the Spanish capital, charging €5.90 for one-hour…
Many people have asked me what I looked for in a candidate. Even though there is no…
It’s been 3 and a half years since we started working with Buzztala. At the time we built a platform that helped aggregate user generated product reviews on e-commerce sites. A couple of pivots later…
A couple of really interesting reading lists for product managers have been…
When I mentioned that Bonafide was shutting down, some people were surprised. They were surprised that we’d disband a strong and cohesive five-person team, that we’d shut down a startup with enough cash to survive another year, that we’d throw away 2.5 years of work from great engineers, that we’d throw…
Hello folks!
It’s better!
Let me start with what we don’t have.
Every day, more than a few sales people find my email address out of the ether. They try to…
If you found this post after August 2021, I have an interesting update. I’m back at Dialexa and you can read all about it here.
Original Post Written in 2016:
By the title, you know what this blog post is about. It is about change. It is human…
What does the customer experience mean to me and how does it affect my organization? How do I build a…
A rooftop. Pastries. Muffins. Strawberries. And even a hint of sunshine.
It was the perfect morning for the inaugural Female Founders Breakfast at Entrepreneur First. We’ve held breakfasts for women on our cohorts before, but this is the first we’ve opened…
OcuRhythm is building a customizable set of glasses that ensures you can maintain a desired sleep-wake cycle…
Startups are embracing design thinking and setting themselves up to succeed
Autor: Prof. Ramón Alí Mogollón Trujillo.
Evaluación Final de la Asignatura “Economía de la Educación Superior”.
First, you have to get over “I don’t want to bother people in my network issue” or the “feeling weird.” Once you are over those feelings and remember why you started your company then we are ready to roll. Most people in your network have no clue what you are up…
Tl;dr: My friends and I created an online lost pet database and app, funded by…
Dr. Mark Oleynik, Founder and CEO of Moley Robotics will present a session about robotics in the kitchen at the ReThink Food Conference in Napa Valley…
I hit a low point with my business last week. Every entrepreneur that I talk to goes through this…
Last week I wrote about a pitch meeting with a potential new client (with one of our partner agencies). We came out of it feeling pretty certain we…
It’s already been a year since I’ve left San Francisco. That’s a good chunk of time to reflect upon. I often tell people that I’ve been learning so much, but without recording it, it’s hard to explain. Learning’s not automatic; reflecting upon something is makes you…
Google のインドアビュー、ご存知ですか？ストリートビューをご存知の方も多いと思いますが、Google Mapでは屋内をパノラマ写真で見ることができます。それがインドアビューです。
建物内を静止画で撮影し、その写真を繋ぎ合わせることでストリートビューと同じ、建物内を歩いているような体験が可能になります。ストリートビューの発展系として、美術館を始め政府関連建物、歴史的建造物、ガラパゴス諸島などもありましたね。面白いものとしては、アメリカのテレビ局の中や、エミレーツ航空の機内なども。
Greetings…
The summer is quickly speeding by and Alana, Anabell, and I wanted introduce our…
One thing I notice very frequently in startups is how the business can be poorly structured from the outset. At scale of hundreds of people, I’ve experienced and observed how this breaks the company.
What can the bard teach us about coming out on top against better-financed, better-educated, and better-connected competition?
Late-Sixteenth Century London was a melting pot of global culture and Theatrum Mundi the popular medium of its day, promising to…
→ Yann Girard
At least not the type of entrepreneur that’s all over the news.
An entrepreneur is a slave to investors. I want to be free.
Hey there!
As you know, here at Nest we’re promoting our Summer Internship. And if you haven’t read our first post, now’s a great time to do so.
When an economic crisis arrives or when cost is to made within companies usually the norm is cutting the R&D budget in order for the company to survive in staying in the black. But it has been observed that through open innovation it is possible to stay cost effective as well as…
Today and Every Day I am going to tell you stories. That is right as the official Storyteller and Marketing individual with super human mutant powers I am going to start documenting the journey I normally do not expunge upon.
Resonance Shattering…once in awhile, you will come across something, so amazing, so “on time”, so relevant, so awe-inspiring, so nearly perfect, that it is as if a more intelligent, perceptive and articulate version of you produced it.
Dollar Shave Club started as a company that sold razors to people for $1 per month. This week, they sold for $1 billion. How did it happen?
因为之前搬家的时候丢了数据，所以友链都丢了 qwq…… 如果你发现现在找不到你了，留言告诉我喔。
关于链接的排序，其实没有刻意去排，只是之前整理友链的时候想到谁就加谁，然后后面来的因为懒就直接加在后面了，所以排序对极大多数的链接没有啥特别的意义 _(:з」∠)_
MoeFront family
Office equipment, mobile phones and everything else seems to have evolved over time. Why not business cards? These small square pieces of paper still persist even though they are disposable, environmentally unfriendly and a…
Today, I attended a case study hosted by Mobiquity for the technical leadership institute. A technical manager at the company was discussing his experiences with one of our healthcare clients and sharing his ideas and what he learned…
It’s been 2 years this summer since we started working together. Back then I had been looking for a team to build a site I’d been having the idea for, Gamoloco of course, for too long. I was a bit tired of searching but still hopeful.
If you have ever felt lost and alienated in the working world, you are not alone. Some people know what they want to become from a vulnerable age and just stick to their guns. Some people have their futures force-fed to them and others stumble upon it naturally. I am the latter. Right…
Another big theme throughout the interviews has been reflection. Reflection is a way to look back at experiences and to understand and learn from in order to develop something, it could be yourself, a team, or an organization. Here I connect the concept to the startup reality…
Where are the previous Robot Launch winners now?
Catch up with past winners: CleverPet (2015), Preemadonna/Nailbot (2015 runner-up), and Leka (2014).
The growth in the numbers of technology startups valued over $1 Billion, so-called unicorns, has abruptly stopped and even reversed.
Fun Raising
Forget what you know about fundraising. It’s changing. There’s more money available from more sources, and more people chasing that money. So…
For around 200 years, since the industrial revolution took place, we’ve had jobs as we know them today. This turning…
To preface, i’m writing this in the closet of a gym while I should be watching out for kids. I am a camp counselor this summer in wonderful Boulder, Colorado. I moved here two months ago after attending…
Since we’re moving from the perspective of organizing as factories and assembly lines…
This is a list of all the links and articles that helped me conduct user testing successfully. Thank you to all the Medium users for their articles below.
Important tips for user testing — the what, how and why
As soon as someone finds out that I spent closer to a decade in Silicon Valley while working at all kinds of companies, large and small, a question that I immediately get asked is whether I have any plans to return to Silicon Valley and create my own startup.
La enseñanza más grandiosa que…
Maybe it’s time.
Maybe it’s natural progression.
An eventful month! Despite some turmoil in the country and a few challenges of our own, we’re celebrating new…
ERP solutions, despite being highly beneficial, can turn out to be counter-productive for some companies. The following article explains the areas where ERP can go wrong.
Recoo is a group messaging app for building professional network, sharing industry news and career opportunities, and encouraging referrals among professionals within their network. Recoo is available as a web app at Recoo.us. As a demo, we build Twitter Alumni…
Hi Michael Smith
Thanks for the insights in your financial model. It’s great that you’re taking the time to share this. Thanks.
I have a question, and I might be missing some context on the workings of Enspiral, but how do you compensate individual members for sales (selling the billable hours) and…
We just on-boarded the youngest team member at MuseFind on Monday and here’s how Chief Boy at MuseFind enjoyed his first week:
“After working for 1 week at MuseFind, I feel as if I have been working here for at least 1 month. Walking…
Women’s First Coding Club in Gaza
After getting nominated as the top tech female in Gaza to join an intensive training at Klarna; the online payment company in Sweden; I wanted to build a grassroots female tech community in Gaza by training women and girls in tech and business. I launched the first Women-Only Coding Club as…
We’re 2 weeks in already!
We have all heard the expression, “Fear of Failure”. However, the “Fear of Success” can be…
In the previous chapter I defined what culture is and why it’s important to shape. As Tess mentions, it’s important that everyone in the company has the same foundation. Culture can, when shared with a group of people, function as a stake in the ground and in the…
10 years ago I got off the plane in Australia with a laptop and $15k seed money…
Startup, marketing, testing a product, pre-launch. Are you interested in any of these? If you are, you came to right place! Today, I’m going to tell you about my experiences and share an interview with two people who are working at a startup. Let’s start!
Who doesn’t like the idea of being remembered long after death? We all like it whether we admit it or not…
I get asked this question all the time.
So you have an idea you think is great, but you need money or talent or other resources to develop it. But you are afraid to talk to anyone…
This article was written by John Lamb and published in the Innovations magazine #5.
I made this list and it turns out I write mostly about entrepreneurship (and teaching it), web analytics, and web marketing (and teaching it).
THE BEGINNING
I am Takuya Beppu, a Software Engineer at Advanced Technology Lab of Recruit Technologies Co.,Ltd in…
Time is standard. Right? 60 minutes mean 60 minutes. It is exactly 3600 seconds. 1 hour. There is no two ways about it.
This is my fifth (should have been my sixth) monthly post from the One Side Project challenge — A trunk…
Taxa de conversão média de uma newsletter promocional = 0,17%
Taxa de conversão média de emails de recuperação de compra (cart recovery) = 4,64%.
Written by Neil Bellefeuille
The elusive unicorn of innovation
From the board rooms of Fortune 500s to the farthest reaches of the developing world, I’ve wrestled the elusive beast that is innovation in many different…
Fast, convenient, easy, efficient — is what comes to mind when one thinks of the Mother of all Fast Food Restaurant chains that serves 68 million people everyday in 119 countries.
This is a collection of the interviews I’ve made. The majority have been published here at Medium, and although the articles are not official parts of this research project they might be of interest to you to read as they go deeper into what each person finds important about their…
快速把我的Steve Jobs傳記心得寫一下這本書很有看的價值 研究產業 、研究創意 或是社會改革有興趣的都可以看
How might we enable startups to build their culture?
The world of organizations is changing rapidly. The trend is moving towards self-organization and seeing the organization as a living breathing thing. This isn’t reflected in the…
When a startup is about to die and is looking for investors to save them, they usually fail to raise money.
However, when the startup is profitable and doesn’t need money to stay alive, that’s when the flock of investors turn their heads…
Here are a few quick tips to make your next meetup more engaging and something to remember!
We are a handful of weeks away from sharing the first Sofiia™ humanAPI™ prototype— a first tool in the Sofiia…
By Seb Haire, guest writer at ProFinda.
I doubt that it would come across as a self-confession of mental instability — I just feel that it is a succinct, maybe open-ended descriptor of my love for introversion and seeing the world.
So this is an introduction. A lot has changed in the past year or two. I used to…
Who wouldn't want to see the future in their industry. Imagine how much money…
Each week Parabol shares its progress in a ‘Friday Ship’. This post originally appeared on the Parabol blog.
Every national or international business needs a strong communication system to connect with its customers, partners and employees. If you are going to run a business, you should consider that communication system will be really the backbone of…
“We are Ocean”
Imagine that your website had a public page where anybody could post their feedback. Would all the feedback be equally valuable? Nope. So how could you identify the most valuable feedback?
One possibility would be the Reddit approach. People could vote up or down the different ideas. The ideas with the most upvotes would be…
As mentioned in the beginning of this project, we’re moving rapidly toward a world where other expectations on organizations are forming. To tackle these issues it’s essential to build the organizational culture. So, how might we enable startups to build their culture? From this project…
In the late 60’s and early 70’s psychologists at Stanford University ran a test on a group of kids between the ages of…
At The Human Effort, we love prototypes and proof-of-concepts (POCs). They’re something we do really well, and good prototype work can be really hard to find.
When talking about their organizations or how the organization should look like in the future, one thing that stands out is the ability to keep learning and growing. Sam Spurlin mentions the growth mindset, a theory developed by Carol Dweck, and says that every…
An aspect of life that we all seek for either ahead or after money, success or happiness. At times, we all fail to see that these…
Disruptive innovation is happening all around you. It’s the younger people getting the job, instead of…
In 2014, coming off the failed implementation of a SaaS platform (due primarily due to budgetary shortfall and delivery slip…
Quiet week at home this week as the east coast summer hits some of its high water marks. So in the humidity and heat, I am writing this week’s “TK Thoughts of the Week”:
We all spend so much time every day, every minute, trying to figure out. Trying to predict-What is the next big thing? How can I ride the next big wave?
About four months ago, I was looking for tools or materials that I could use to learn foreign languages…
INTRODUCCIÓN: El matrimonio es como una gran sinfonía y…
It’s been 12 weeks since I started working full time on Scale Denim. The one word I’d use to describe these 12 weeks would be “exciting”.
It’s been exciting thinking about the idea; it’s been exciting working with Kabir and Mac; it’s been exciting…
Poker was now among the many most favored online games with films and collection devoted to it. It experienced often been a much cherished, thrilling and entertaining activity. Then, the introduction of online gambling or online casinos…
ピッチセッションに参加したことがあるスタートアップなら、それがどれくらいストレスを感じるものになりうるかご存知でしょう。ピッチの極度の緊張状態では、「ピッチ」という言葉が「売る、あるいは承認されるよう…
Frisco, Texas- July 22, 2016 — Le-Vel Brands was prominently seen on USA Today as one of the best ways to create additional income without the hassle of a set schedule and work hours.
There are many applications that are booming over the world and mainly designed to perform a specialized function. All these apps are stored in application stores, but many of them are a boon for travelers. Travel app users can…
Are you a startup company? It’s a rough, crowded world out there. You need to make yourself heard.
You need to make your mark. You need a blog.
Kass appið og Hlaupastyrkur hafa tekið höndum saman og gert það auðveldara en nokkru sinni fyrr að láta gott af sér leiða.
Á www.hlaupastyrkur.is er nú hægt að heita á þátttakendur í Reykjavíkurmaraþoni Íslandsbanka sem hlaupa fyrir hin ýmsu verðugu málefni með…
Business challenges exist in all industries, which is a reality that organizations need to contend with and work past. However, for businesses that are strictly consumer-facing, such as retail, some challenges can be…
We should also look forward to creating our own tech companies, if those who have created successful companies in places like silicon valley are no different from us in terms of abilities then we too should be able to do the same. We can’t continue to be feeling bad about the way the tech industry treats people of colour. I think we should do…
