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7 Reasons Why Customer Feedback Is Important To Your Business

The rise and fall (OK — mostly fall) of Yahoo

Today Yahoo announced that it will sell its core assets to Verizon for a mere…

How to use “the steak clause” to win your next negotiation

The right words to say goodbye

It’s over.
And the more I think about it the more I find myself stuck trying to find the right words.

The truth is, we have put so much love and effort into this adventure, giving everything we could for the past four years…

How to Build a Startup & Understanding Venture Capital

AARRR Metrics ตัวชี้วัดของการทำธุรกิจสตาร์ทอัพ (Startup)

ในการทำธุรกิจสตาร์ทอัพสิ่งสำคัญอย่างหนึ่งที่ขาดไปไม่ได้เลยก็คือ “เครื่องชี้วัดในการทำธุรกิจ” ซึ่งในแวดวงสตาร์ทอัพนั้นก็มีหลากหลายตัวชี้วัด และหนึ่งในตัวชี้วัดที่ได้รับความนิยมก็คือ “AARRR Metrics” ซึ่งคิดค้นโดย Dave McClure…

Wrexham, what a shithole

Last week, I spent a bit of time in the town I was born, Wrexham, with a bunch of people who are helping to create a new identity for the town as a vibrant and creative capital of north Wales.

How To Organise An Amazing Hackathon

Let’s start with the basics -

What is a hackathon *?

A lesson in doing the right thing — David Sacks & Zenefits

Clouseau: A Postmortem

How I vetted and dumped a startup idea in ~20 hours and for under $1000.

Honing in or setting out?

I saw this tweet recently:

30 must read books for tech entrepreneurs

For me, time to read is never enough. I find books one of the best information and…

Pokemon Go is Sparking a Creative Revolution

It’s rare for a new product or technology to spark a movement—a change in how we…

How A 28-Year-Old Got Fired Then Built A $500K-A-Month Business While Traveling The World

Whose Life Are You Living?

“One of our greatest and longest tenured employees, John Doe, died from major congestive heart failure.

10 Toxic People You Should Avoid Like the Plague

What is Ghana’s Largest Retailer Up To?

Why Melcom’s discount loyalty cards might contain the seeds…

Food delivery: a winner-takes-all?

“But…is it a winner-takes-all type of market?”

I get this question a lot when discussing the online food delivery industry with investors, analysts and journalists.

Joy & Pain in Real-time — In-app Net Promoter Score surveys

Open sourcing our in-app NPS engine and dashboard

Why Slack is perfect for podcasters

Brands build online communities to improve customer satisfaction and retention and to gather…

Vodafone, Helpchat — Is this negligence? Or just plain dumb?

What exactly happened?

To begin with, Helpchat, the start-up that basks in the glory of the million+ downloads on Play store and the multiple millions backing it, has rolled out a public beta which I…

Go Away, Come Back Stronger

What I learned as German intern in a French start-up

What I Learned From My Hiring Screw-Up As A First Time Founder

And how to prepare your hires

Shutting down a failing startup

Whoof. Thought I’d walk through a few lessons that are (painfully) fresh in my mind as I am shutting down the project of the last few years.

A little background — I’ve been relatively lucky over the years, having started a few lines of business…

Cashflow forecasting for fast growth technology companies

How often have you heard people say things like “this raise gives us £354k of headroom in May of 2018” or “this raise gives us 17 months of runway”. No it doesn’t!

胆固醇被平反了吗？

“鸡蛋、海鲜含胆固醇高，胆固醇吃多了容易得心脏病，要少吃。”类似的说法讲了几十年，几乎成了健康常识。偏偏含胆固醇高的食物往往是好吃的食物，让人不得不经常抵制美食的诱惑。但是近年来在网上经常听到为胆固醇平反的声音，好像给美食家们带来了福音。比如最近有一篇火遍微信朋友圈的文章，取了一个很耸人听闻的标题，叫《关于胆固醇的说法是有史以来最大的医学欺骗》。文章中说，美国农业部发布的最新膳食指南不再限制胆固醇的摄入量，美国政府部门最终接受胆固醇并非令人担忧的营养物，那些富含胆固醇的食物从现在起被认为是安全食品。关于胆固醇的说法是有史以来最大的医学欺骗，根本就没有低密度脂蛋白胆固醇和高密度脂蛋白胆固醇之分，胆固醇在我们体内不会导…

Getting started with hello

Now that you’ve joined the hello, you may be wondering how to use the app to meet fun, new people who share your…

Past two months, pivot and a layoff

In one of my previous posts, I wrote about what has been happening over the past three months at…

Aggressive Patience

Businesses are created to solve problems.

Life lessons at 30.

Last week was great. Met my first boss (who’s now a world traveler and serial entrepreneur), after many, many years. He was visiting Bombay and came by my office. This man gave me my first job, a big moment for me. I was nervous and excited at the same time.

How To Measure & Analyze MVP Performance

A high-level introduction to analyzing a web-based MVP

What’s Rush?

Rush is a Mail app that improves communication efficiency.

The ‘Platform Economy’ has arrived. Here’s what you need to know about it

The One Thing That Helps Me Become A Better Person & Founder

VCs are nothing but really weird HRs and other thought rambles

Why most clients will not get a scalable server for just $100

Or why articles should not emphasize on the cost of “Getting It Done”

Pokemon Go

Pokemon Go is all the hype right now. There are two complementary app that are…

Best Pitch Decks: The Most Successful Fundraising Pitches You Need to Know

Girişiminizi Büyütmek için İlk Yapmanız Gerekenler

Son zamanlarda birlikte çalıştığım veya mentorluk yaptığım CEO’larda ortak bir problem görmeye başladım. Hepsi girişimini büyütmek, ölçeklendirmek isterken, genelde ilk aşamada net bir yol bulmakta zorlanıyor.

From Zero to a Million: Why A Shortage of Time and Money is a Fucking Competitive Advantage

For our next trick, we bring you… the Mixpanel integration!

What Business is Really All About

It’s the best, most sustainable business plan. Always has been, always will be.

Long Term Greed

“Strive not to be a success but rather to be of value” Albert Einstein.

The meaning behind the phrase seems fairly straightforward — it is more important to be of value (to others), than to be successful (as an individual). The…

I Lost My Job A Year Ago Today: Here’s What I’ve Learned Since Then

#ShareYourStory — Mary Fox shares her insight on entrepreneurship, risk, and values

SpotStory#2: Andrej Wallo: baví ma rozbiehať biznis na zelenej lúke

Andrej je COO crowdinvestingovej platformy CONDA na Slovensku. Je našim členom a my sme sa teda rozhodli s ním urobiť krátky rozhovor. Dozvieš sa, čo je to crowdinvesting a ako vznikla CONDA. Zistíš, ako sa Andrej…

Think Fast: 5 Stories You Need To Read

July 26, 2016

You can’t cheat building a great talent acquisition eco-system…

I’ve been working in the talent acquisition space for almost 10 years now and the evolution of how we hire talent globally has been somewhat huge in my eyes. Hiring amazing talent can be a strategic nightmare for any…

A day in a life at an early-stage tech startup

Essential Blogs & Podcasts for understanding the VC landscape

A Dose of B-12

A confluence of vastly improved technologies has moved artificial intelligence out of the sci-fi realm and into our daily lives…

Software ate cleantech

How will breakthrough energy tech be funded now?

Boring is Beautiful (with apologies to Peter Thiel)

It’s fun to imagine the vast potential of a new product that is attempting to create a brand new market. Space exploration, nanotechnology, virtual reality, breakthrough cures for diseases, etc. This type of innovation has enormous…

Entrepreneur ou salarié, lequel trime le plus ?

Games are the Most Important Design Tool that No One is Using.

Founder spotlight: Chiedo (Inc.)

One of the goals of INITIATE is to boost the voices of founders and entrepreneurs who are looking at…

A Note from the Makers of Project Merdeka: A Celebration of Malaysian Entrepreneurship

The New Products Facebook & Google Are Building With Massive Market Potential

Hint: It’s bigger than self-driving cars

Monter sa boite : Les erreurs à éviter

De par ce que j’ai pu connaître parmi mes différentes expériences, je tiens à vous faire…

What I know now: Initial lessons from starting my first company

This is a working list, for my personal use, but I figured I’d share it to get feedback.

1. It will be ugly.
2. You will be wrong more than you will be right at the beginning…

Why Startup Developers Integrate with RingCentral

Entrepreneurs — do you really want them in your business?

By: Ed Christie, Director, ?What If!

What Startups Can Learn From Nigerian Scammers?

What does it really mean to be an entrepreneur?

“I want to be an entrepreneur.”

VERDE MISERIA

DÍA 4 COLONIA Y FRANKFURT

Hoy no hay muchas fotos. El día no las merece y lo que ha pasado tampoco. Pero vayamos por partes.

Hoy dormimos en Frankfurt. Así que abandonamos Bruselas y nos ponemos en marcha hacia Alemania, el dueño de Europa. Se repiten…

How to innovate in an industry you don’t know s**t about.

The experience of innovating in the highly specialized physiotherapy industry from our startup point of view — in 5 rules

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Terabytes

By Bill Bryant, DFJ Partner

3 Steps to Staying Healthy When Running Your Startup

Using Behavioural Design to Make Products More Engaging

How do you get users to want to do what you want them to do? No matter how much effort you put into an amazing marketing site, a slick launch campaign or a frictionless user on-boarding flow, you may still end up tearing out your hair…

Startups — such a messy world…

One of my favorite things to read about are the stories behind startups. What lead to their “ah ha!”…

Amazon Launches Prime in India. Can Flipkart Stay ‘First’?

On the 27th of June, 2016, Amazon launched the first of its first AWS (Amazon Web Services) data centers in India, in Mumbai.

On n’arrête plus Lemon Way.

Plus de 2 millions de comptes clients ouverts depuis 2012. Trois nouveaux bureaux à Milan, Berlin et…

Hiring the Best of the Best

I was recently asked about my strategy for hiring engineers. Do I only hire A-players, or am I OK hiring B players for certain parts of engineering that aren’t mission-critical or require hard-core algorithm work? Is a mix of A and B players sufficient?

Soddisfare i clienti del XXI secolo: cosa possono insegnare il crowdfunding e la co-creazione alle grandi aziende

Manila the next Silicon… Pearl?

The Philippines, a hub for call centers and back offices of corporations around the world, is quickly…

Things You Never Knew Existed

Or “How I Saved You $14.95”

Why We Implemented a High-Touch Customer Acquisition Approach

5 years | 5 Lessons in Inside Sales

After five years of employment as either an ISR or an SDR, I thought some people who are considering an inside sales role or are currently in one might find these lessons helpful. If you don’t fit either of those descriptions, hopefully you find a glimpse into the…

Don’t Freak Out! You Can Still Land a Summer Job in July

I need to confess…

More than 10 years ago I made my life mission to succeed in the big world coming from a small remote country. I was hoping that by showing my small wins, unique experiences and professional rewards I would inspire an army of young people with similar backgrounds not to give up, to push more…

8 Ways Coding Is Like Pokemon Go

All the ways the world’s most popular mobile app game is like the world’s fastest growing industry.

Moving (start)UP in life, or why I decided to join Hole19.

Hi. I’m Gil and I’m the COO of Hole19 Golf. I recently made a life changing decision, and I’d love to tell you about it.

Imagine you worked for one of the hottest startups in the world for its respective…

“Apprendre les uns des autres, c’est ce qui nourrit l’être humain”- Rencontre avec le co-fondateur de Speaky

Customer Support by Email: Dos and Don’ts

Oh, inboxes. Where personal and work emails are met with an endless supply of social media updates, promotional notifications, spam and more.

Rumors abound that email is dying. That social media is the new era method of customer…

Building a product for everyone is a recipe for bland.

Open Source, Open Society: Next Month in New Zealand

Guest Post: Anthony Cabraal, Enspiral

How To Bleisure: Mixing Work And Leisure Travel In Aruba

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 living. It’s a trend that is…

How Dollar Shave Club Used Brand Storytelling to Get To $1 BILLION

By Jane Hope

Dollar Shave Club’s brand story builds a distinctive brand and disrupts the brand story of their major competitor — Gillette.

The 7 Deadly Sins of Product Demos

Product demos can be a powerful tool in your sales strategy.

Unfortunately, many B2B companies are so eager to share their product with a demo that they are susceptible to clichéd nuances and practices that can turn-off their prospects.

We’ve Made Our First Sale!

So, after busting our asses off for a while, we finally got a breakthrough last week as we made our first sale. Needless to say the entire team was delighted as this called for a much needed celebration. But at the same time, everyone was thrilled as this avenue meant that more…

How can I market a startup on a very low budget?

Hiring Digital Nomads, Travellers & Student Interns

Digital Marketer

Triage, Timezones and Timeshifting

What we’ve learned about organizing our remote, technical Customer Support team members.

VCやスタートアップが増加している東南アジアは次なる大きなスタートアップのマーケットになりつつある

東南アジアのスタートアップの今後についての記事があったため、共有します。

東南アジアが次の大きなスタートアップのマーケットになることは驚くことではありません。以下に理由をまとめてみました。

まず、10の東南アジアの国々の総人口は6億人を超えています。中国とインドの後の3番目で、ヨーロッパ諸国や北米の人口より多いです。もっとも重要なことは、6億人の70%が35歳以下の若年層です。つまり…

eSports Startup to Watch — Stream Hatchet

In the world of eSports, content is king. Yet even as competitive gaming content makes its way to linear TV, its primary home is online. However, reliable visibility — statistics, analytics, and data — into the reach and effect of live online broadcasts are…