Startup

The eight lessons we learned

Social media team: one year later

A year ago, The Economist placed a big bet on social media. We expanded our editorial social-media team from two to ten people with the aim of delivering our journalism to more globally curious…

How to Stay in Control of Your Meetings

Meetings.

Medium with custom domain vs my own host

UPDATE: As of November 2017, Medium is no longer offering new custom domains as a…

Australia, the startup capital of brunch, surfing and Frontier Tech

“From the beginning our goal was to build a…

Don’t Ever Make Anyone “Head of Sales/Marketing/Engineering/Whatever”

5 Awesome Plants for Aquaponics

Picking the right plants to grow for your aquaponics system can be a bit trickier than just picking…

Marsbot. (aka: some thoughts on the types of things only Foursquare can build)

A primer on Drones and UAVs (Part 1): Segmenting the market

Drone startups have been attracting a lot of investment in the last couple of years and here at Balderton we thought it would be good to discuss some of the key trends. There’s so much going on, in so many different parts of…

SpaceTech Market Map

As SpaceTech startups are getting more familiar to VCs and tech community in general, in order to structure the…

新しいことを始めようとすると“嫌な感情”が先に来るのは何故か

行動を起こす前に必ず陥る、あの嫌〜な感情。恐れ、恥ずかしい、失望。。そんな感情は一時的でしかないのに、何故こうも行動の邪魔をしてくるんだろう

Thinking of changing your Brand Name? Here are the pros and cons..

Stranger Hidden Things and Radical Principles

Hope you had a great weekend! Here’s some of the best media I enjoyed last week:

Why it’s a bad idea to deceive your investors

Investors are optimists. They invest in concepts and ideas presented by eager…

5 Startups That Prove The AngelHack HACKcelerator Breeds Awesomeness

Правила успешных переговоров: проверяй, уступай и «обнюхивай»

Как многие из нас видят деловые переговоры? Ты надеваешь нужный галстук, пьешь черный кофе и настраиваешься на абсолютную победу. Ты расчетлив, хладнокровен, машину ведешь одной рукой и хочешь слышать только «да» на все твои…

Правильные книги

В конечном итоге нас всех интересует долгосрочное развитие, рост. Я понимаю, что когда я пишу “нас всех”, то это не более (в…

Why I made an app called Go Away, and why we need more software like it

How to be a Phenomenal Summer Intern

Attention, Millennials: My generation thinks you suck.

20 Must-Read EdTech Resources

Each year, the momentum continues to grow for investing in EdTech. In 2011, venture capital invested in the…

A List of Australian Startups That You Should Know About (Part 9): 201–225 ~ Special Adelaide Feature.

Young and Successful Real Estate Entrepreneurs of India

Speaking about real estate as an independent business, it is one of the most profitable industry/business in India followed by agriculture. As per the latest study, India is one of the leading countries in developing some of the best…

Valuation is an art, not a science.

• While formulas such as the classic “net working capital” test are necessary to support an investment analysis, value investing is not a paint-by-numbers excercise. Skpeticism and judgement are always required. For one thing, not all elements affecting value are…

Put a frog into a vessel fill with water and start heating the water.
As the temperature of the water begins to rise, the frog adjust its body temperature accordingly.
The frog keeps…

How to register a company in Bulgaria?

Who can register a company in Bulgaria? How much does it cost…

1. Don’t be scared of Object Oriented Programming

Why choose Google AppEngine for starting-up

Startups are fundamentally different from enterprises. While enterprises try to sustain and expand their business, primary objective of startups is to figure out a product-market fit. Hence, they need to be agile. They should be able to experiment with…

You’ll Never Succeed in the Business World

During my senior year at college, a friend got sucker punched and knocked out cold coming out of a bar. It was a drunken feud that escalated. Nothing more, nothing less. Next thing we knew, a crew of us was at the ER, and a 3-month-long-ordeal would…

First Conversation With An Investor — 7 Best Practices

If i can offer lessons in sustainability from the former USSR. These sound like the lessons Montana survivalists might describe, but hey, they kind of work today. These include 1) living a semi subsistence life, or at least having ready access to your own agricultural means of production to grow not herbs or kale, but corn, potatoes, and preservable…

The Wolfe: Supercharge your Laptop

The Wolfe brings desktop-quality graphics to your desktop.

A Strong Team = A Strong Company — Six powerful concepts for building stronger teams

6 Important Steps to follow once you have Incorporated your Startup as a Private Limited Company

Pro Rats

“I’m one hundred percent certain that I’m right, and there’s a zero percent chance that I’m…

Imagine that you’ll never sell your business

This is a thought experiment I came to perhaps later than I should, and it is pretty simple.

If you’re planning to start, or have started a business, imagine that you’ll never, ever be able to sell it.

Can you teach entrepreneurship?

Yes and No, let me explain.

The case for No you can’t…

The Munger Operating System.

Charlie Munger is an American businessman. He’s a lawyer-turned-investor, and he’s prob best known for being Warren Buffet’s right-hand man. Charlie is vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway. He is also a great thinker and a multidisciplinary role model. His OS is something truly…

Strategies For Getting SaaS Customer Upgrades

Have you got your strategy down for encouraging SaaS…

The night before Nextt

(A personal promise to work tirelessly for your ideas)

How Lunya’s Sleepwear Evolved into a Mission to Empower Women

Helpful constraints for product development

The information below is learned from releasing 20 something products as agency and now a product company. I understand that you may have a different experience. This is just one set of constraints that in this particular combination have been found to…

Landing a Rocketship in the Stone Age

Let’s get something out of the way: getting a mortgage is a tedious, low-tech and painful…

Free Birthday! 10 things to do to make your birthday an epic one without costing you a cent. In Toronto.

Fear of Being Included

FOMO for the rest of us

After having the app on my phone for about 2 years, I recently started snapchatting regularly.

Screw FOMO.

Hello, Tech World. I’m New Here.

I began working when I was 14 years old. My first real work day was an eight hour day of corn detasseling in the middle of a hot, humid Minnesota summer. I made it through hour five before I told the boss I was itchy, having early onset heatstroke, hungry and tired (yeah…

When in Doubt, Do Less

If there’s anything I’ve learnt in my facilitation training, it’s that less is more.

I remember on the first full day of a Gestalt workshop, we sat in the circle and came to the last hour of the day. The facilitator turned to us and said:

Why Great Products Don’t Always Win

How to find the best lead generation strategy for B2B companies?

From Infrastructure to Accelerator

“Whenever and wherever societies have flourished and prospered…, creative and workable cities have been at the core of the phenomenon.”

5 reasons to register a company in Bulgaria

Corporate income tax in Bulgaria is the lowest in the EU…

Don’t be afraid to fail early

I was speaking to an entrepreneur in our portfolio who was going through a major pivot and asked him how he was feeling given the last few months of dealing with the business model change, jittery investors, confused employees, etc. We believe in the entrepreneur and continue…

Twelve Culture Series: Making Well-Being a Priority at Twelve. Namaste.

by Megan Henderson

How to manage a company in Bulgaria

Managing a company in Bulgaria is simple and cheap. However, there…

Finding the Superheroes of Our Time

Modern superheroes don’t wear tight pants and flamboyant mantles, they don’t bend steel or read minds; they tackle poverty, fight for equal healthcare access, and keep people healthy by crowdfunding for safe drinking water. These passionate change-makers hail social…

How Smart Companies Stay Smart.

The smart companies attract great people.

Learn + Achieve + Celebrate: Launching the Milestone Makers Program

Over $200K in training and resources complimentary to entrepreneurs

The lost guide of testing your business ideas on Meetup.com

Do you have an idea? have you planning on launching it for a couple of months? deciding on the right name for it? planning your site map, before even validating the need of the market?
Does it feel like the intial hesitation to…

Chalet, a big-small property management company

Building Your Customer Base

Knowing your customers and continuously engaging them

Which is better, native app development vs. cross platform app?

Typically there are three choices to develop the mobile apps native, web, and hybrid applications. Now, which one is better for you, can be decided only once you analyze each of them deeply and know which one best suits…

Office Hack #22 — The Imagination Hack

Turning employees into ambitious visionaries.

LA DIETA DE LOS IDIOTAS

DÍA 3 BRUSELAS

Las despedidas siempre saben a mezcla. Dejar París sabe a pena pero también a tranquilidad y a ilusión de saber que los parisinos siguen peleando. Siguen saboreando el verano en los campos de Marte y siguen yendo a cenar a la orilla del…

Друзья, отвечаем на ваш вопрос «Что такое линк?»

Линк — это название типа контакта, который организуется между вашим телефонным номером и номером абонента…

5 Key Factors In Choosing The Right Idea For Your Startup

Why be a programmer in the US, if it is all going away in the near future?

About a year ago I wrote my first Linkedin Blog post called “Is There A Future In Web Development?” I got a bunch of comments and lots of reads for that article. I still get people reading it.

How loss aversion can influence the decisions of startup investors.

Watching Yahoo! and the internet from Google in 2000

I remember for years watching Yahoo!’s spectacular rise with awe. Yahoo!’s stock began 2000 at an all-time high of $475 (pre-split). Weeks later on February 14th, Valentine’s Day and the very day I started at Google, Yahoo! announced a…

Building an innovative organization

Not even a week ago I heard the same argument I’ve been hearing for a while “We are trying to innovate through startups”. Immediately I feel some regret asking the question why they want to connect with startups. Don’t get me wrong. I get it, startups are awesome…

The Problem with Design Thinking

An empathic and creative design for a biased subset of users is more a problem than solution.

5 reasons why not to do a YES+ or Happiness Workshop with IAHV/ The Art of Living

1. If you don’t like meeting fresh new faces and making new friends

No somos meritocráticos, gracias

La verdad siempre es relativa, depende del sistema conceptual utilizado y las metáforas que lo estructuran. Por lo tanto, la verdad no es ni absoluta ni objetiva sino que se encuentra basada en el entendimiento común.

A Month of Pop, Culture & Panchayat

When we started, we had an idea in mind, we wanted to create an enthralling experience; by the…

The full stack challenge of most IoT & Industrie 4.0 startups.

Internet of Things and Industrie 4.0 (a German term for the industrialization of manufacturing environments) are hot investment topics these days. Collecting machine data, monitoring production cycles and taking steps…

The Perils Of The “Ideas” Board

Something that the modern era of development has brought with it is a new openness between development teams and users. Users love having access and insight into the development process, they feel like their feedback is important to the vendor. Brand loyalty is increased…

Quoi de nouveau chez Fluicity ?

Petit tour en images et chiffres de ce qui a changé…

Des projets citoyens pour construire la ville ensemble

Find yourself; then your team

It’s been a crazy week at SU. We started off Monday with dreaded “Team Registration Day”- an entire day of nothing and everything.

There was distinct mix of calmness and anxiety breathing heavily throughout campus- relief and excitement within the…

How to nail customer experience and super charge sales by making the most of feedback

Customer feedback is probably the best source of information we have as to how we can improve sales and service. It speaks straight to the bottom and top line, however we often fail to…

The #TechFail Of A Modern-Day Workplace

If you told everyone in your company to walk into the conference room and share their computer screen to a roomful of people, would they all be able to do it?

Probably not.

Evolución en la era digital

En el año 1859, Charles Darwin sorprendió a la comunidad científica con la publicación del libro El origen de…

“Kabali As It Happened” on ClipAwesome

Plans Schmanz

A 3-step business plan and the recipe for maturity

How to go camping with your coworkers

We’re a company of about 25 people, and we like to go camping together. A few years ago, we…

The engineering blog meta-post

You just finished a pretty big project at work. Congrats! Your PM is happy, your users are happy, even marketing is happy.

And then you hear this: “Can you write a blog post about that?”

Fix The Tease (Turning Your Org to 11)

Find and fix The Tease to keep your best team members

The Tease is real. And it lurks almost exclusively in some of the best organizations.

4 Must-Haves to Convert Developers on your Homepage

For this first episode of the B2D Series, we are going to look at the foundation of any successful developer’s tool: a homepage that converts.

VULNERABLE TO ACTIVISM PART II

Here is what I wrote for my Hedgeye clients on 6/13 about BWLD and why it was VULNERABLE TO ACTIVISM….

THE UPSHOT

For the past two years, BWLD has underperformed the S&P 500 by 11% and is down 8% year-to-date. There is a…

The big change in product management as a company grows — and how to be ready for it.

When Nulogy reached 30 people in size people warned us that the company would start to feel different. Passing 100 people they said it would change noticeably again. We have worked…

Simple lawyer questions for complicated software startups.