Before I started interviewing.io (which was inspired in large part by what I learned…
Or Why Charlie Munger has known no wise people who didn’t read all the time
Trigger warning: this essay is long. I attempt to build a first-principles argument that reading will make you better at life…
C’est un sujet qui me fait souvent réfléchir : Comment faire pour tirer le…
Why you should prioritize strategy over making
Never Pitch Again! Use These 4 Methods to Fundraise Online Instead
Quero te contar como o Estado tentou destruir nossa Startup.Meu nome é Éder…
I have a good job. Really, it’s not a job. It’s a labor of love. I get to work with entrepreneurs who are inventing the future. Some actually get funded.
You think you have seen it all then the Commonwealth Development Group (CDC) goes and invests EUR50mm in Jumia!! Do these Samweer brothers have juju? I haven’t shopped online in a while but I think I need to hit Jumia to see what local strain of black…
#GIRLBOSS written by Sophia Amoruso is a no BS straight up business/self help/memoir about how a dumpster diving chic girl into vintage grew a multi million dollar fashion brand. It channels your inner boss and boosts…
Failure is a polarizing word. In my experience, most people either view it as taboo or over-celebrate it as a rite of passage. My startup failed. It was miserable. I didn’t think that I was closer to success having failed. I…
Over the past year I’ve talked to many VCs — in the Valley and outside — to dig deeper into the psychology of how the best investors evaluate companies. It’s common knowledge that VCs have different styles…
We’ve written a lot on SaaStr on how to increase the odds your first management team is a success. How to hire a great VP of Sales (tons on that here). What a great VP of sales really does. What a great VP of marketing really does (tons on that…
Thanks for your thoughts K. C. Eleison.
Before addressing the rhetoric in your reply, I must say I don’t appreciate the condescension, patronizing and…
OMG omg OMG omg … Marketing Hell Week (MHW) is back and we’re busting at the seams with…
Picture this. You’re traveling to a new town for business. You pass a nice-looking store, and see a great…
A year ago, I launched Spacesift to the public. Here are a few notable updates on what’s been going on…
What I found surprised me…
O universo opera através de trocas dinâmicas. Você já deve ter ouvido falar sobre a…
s28 Capital recently launched a partnership with University of Waterloo, my alma mater, to…
I’m a great believer that the world is getting better.
As an average adult living the UK in 2016, you are half as likely to die in a car crash as you were 15 years ago; roughly a third as likely to be mugged or burgled; and about 30%…
Life as a home owner can be confusing at times. Sometimes knowing who to call is half the battle. Especially when you have to dig through lists of companies, cross-reference them with friend referrals and BBB stats, then wait three days for someone just to come out and give you an…
I was talking to an entrepreneur about his company’s OKRs and he said that one of the biggest problems…
Raleigh photo sharing startup FotoSwipe raised $530,000 this month to continue growing its global user base, adding features to its mobile app and building a revenue model.
I’ve just given myself a hard but needed kick up the arse.
Maybe I should be writing that as ‘I had an epiphany’ but since I’m Northern Irish and live in Glasgow, Scotland my language is generally somewhat blunt.
It’s been 2 weeks since I’ve written and the reason is I’ve been getting punched in the face…
A reflection on London’s on-demand food delivery ecosystem
Once upon a time, I went to college. I initially declared my major as business management with a minor in computer science. After the first year, I believed that I was going down the wrong track and decided to switch my major to interior design. Why? Because I…
Yesterday, I attended PANMA’s “Hiring for Culture” panel, where five experienced members of the tech scene talked about different facets of “tech culture,” the characteristics that move across organizational boundaries and become common sense understandings of tech companies.
Rob Austin McKee is the founder of Examtron, as well as a newly minted doctor of philosophy and assistant professor at University of Houston- Downtown. Examtron provides textbook publishers with an integrated software solution that can be bundled with their course materials to…
First looks are usually deceiving.
Urvaksh Karkaria recently published an interesting piece on “Why Atlanta cybersecurity firm Damballa flamed out.”
A startup failing normally isn’t news, but Damballa had raised over $60M in in investment, and their industry – info security – is…
The nma has won a new top mentor. When Hamburg’s mayor Olaf Scholz visited us in the Betahaus he demonstrated his longtime…
“What do you mean there is a bird in the kitchen?” This is the question I asked with…
Trust is something that is traditionally built up over time and face to face. In today’s sharing economy, how are companies like Airbnb using design to facilitate and grow trust between peers? Imogen Clark takes a closer look, based on her recent experiences.
As a sole proprietor, I try to be conscious of the steps I’ve taken to get my business where it is today. I’m by no means raking in money, but I don’t think I’d be where I am today if I hadn’t taken…
“(Venture backed) Startups are all about math. Sooner founders realize that, the less emotional trauma & confusion they’ll experience.” — Om Malik (@om)
Each week Parabol shares its progress in a ‘Friday Ship’. This post originally appeared on the Parabol blog.
Roma, via Flaminia 189. Anno 1998. Squilla un telefono, al quartier generale dell’azienda che, da sempre, fa squillare i telefoni degli italiani. Da 4 anni, quella che per…
Look around you. Your office is tidy — on purpose.
Simple design is not only how the product looks like, but more importantly, how the product functions; it’s about creating…
At Seedly, we only believe in doing meaningful work — to build a product that people love, with the…
Two-year-old startup Shipt, a fresh food delivery service based in Birmingham, Alabama, has scaled up and taken off in the startup world of Birmingham and beyond. Shipt now serves twenty-seven cities in nine…
Hi All,
This is my very first peeq post. As such, I’d like to start by getting you all caught up or acquainted with how peeq came to be.
Take up one idea. Make that idea your life- Think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain…
The role of a CFO has evolved from solely executing finance tasks to one that oversees highly strategic decisions meant to drive and manage growth.
If you think your business is ready to hire a CFO (read my post here to find out if you…
Indiana Company Targets The Employees Of Small Businesses
How important is the health and fitness of a company’s employees to that company’s success?
This article first published on Funding Note
One of the worst things you, a startup owner, can do is to leave an accurate valuation out of their pitch deck presentation. Nobody, not…
Here in NYC, a handful of industries still offer summer hours, which means at least every other Friday you get to cut out by midday. We wanted to find out whether the weather affects our customers’ schedules. Are they among the privileged few? Are they showing up later to…
Collaboration. Easier said than done. The ability to collaborate is being touted as an essential skill in today’s business environment. But there is no universally understood definition of what constitutes collaboration and, as such, myths have been created about what it means…
We are happy to be a part of AutoNebula, a Pune based accelerator supporting startups in the smart transportation segment making impact to Indian Automotive Eco-System…
It is common knowledge that people make friends easily in their younger years.
Programas de aceleração fora do Brasil estão disponíveis em vários modelos e muitas vezes…
Nowadays, one of the main problems for startups, freelancers, and even small companies is looking for the best office where they could work with comfort. Rocket-soaring costs could come along in renting or buying an office could be a huge obstacle for them to work creatively and…
Hello friend,
Hope you’re doing great 😊
A few week ago we decided to build Viral Loops in public.
Our goal is to learn faster than others. Only people who use our product will help us build something great…
The nice apartment I live in. The comfortable clothes I wear. The amazing food I eat. My friends and my family…
Wanna start a company? Is it so easy to jump in today’s market when you know that there would be many competitors waiting to hammer you down? Well, we have seen giants loose in this market and at the same time we have also seen people rise from…
What do you think was #Samsung’s first product?A #microwave? a pager? a #satellite dish? a phablet?Neither of those.
Entrepreneurship used to be great. It used to be something that select people could pull off, but today, that’s different. Over the years, entrepreneurs have achieved some kind of “rock star” status, attracting “wantrepreneurs” by the…
India still doesn’t get it!
I always cringe when I see the popular dailies doing full page spreads and articles on reading habits and life style, etc of entrepreneurs in the west.
Don’t get me wrong, I admire most of them but where I am coming from is how we always make the Indian counterparts second…
I learned this the hard way 20 years ago in my one failed startup. Three of us were in it together equally. I got voted out and it took me 20kin legal costs right now
My. Startup that I created three years ago is 100 percent owned by me and bootstrapped. My new venture will be the same.
For new ventures looking to raise capital or test their market/product, crowdfunding has proven to be the go-to solution with an ease and excitement that other methods of funding lack. With that excitement though comes challenges. As a fairly young…
Vou começar, com esse valor simulado de mesma distância usando um simulador de tarifas de taxi:
O trajeto, era partir da Avenida Santo Amaro, altura do número 1.500, até o metrô Anhangabaú. Trajeto de cerca de 20 minutos, e relativamente perto.
“Something innovative”
“Something novel”
“A spark of genius”
I asked real people this question. Among array of jobs, lifestyles, and backgrounds, people gravitated to these few…
Sometimes on the path to getting everything right, we don’t complete the creation or don’t apply them to practice.
When we embrace we can be wrong, we can fail and it’s okay, we go past the feeling and create something…
First, a classic:
There is now a website where white people can “make reparations” to black people. Most people want money, or tangible things that cost money, so I’ll frustrate them by offering free advice: become a founder of a #startup and stop waiting for people to just pay you in return for nothing.
Awesome! Gary, would love to pitch to you…but more importantly i want a rejection from you. Lol
Refreshing article Tristan Pollock. Didn’t know about Australia's ecosystem. Have you heard about Tel Aviv’s ecosystem?
Scherp van je, het gaat hier nog om een test versie waar de vertalingen nog aan toegevoegd moeten worden. Dat ga ik als een van de laatste dingen doen :)
Maar bedankt in ieder geval, het lanceren gaat zeker goed komen!
You are a true inspiration, in that you even tried. So many people just coast through life, never challenging themselves to see what more they could do, that is why it is so heart warming to see someone fight the good fight. I for one, am glad you tried, for if you hadn’t, I would have never met you. Thanks for the post! Hugs! ❤️
Recheado de funcionalidades e disponível para as plataformas iOS e Android, dispositivo móvel lançado pela startup Goleiro de Aluguel traz, dentre outras…
Everybody knows that public relations offer great benefits when used appropriately. To get your business noticed, to make your public image or just to create a buzz about your startup, public relation is the best thing you can do…
You are cornered
Cornered from all sides
Nobody is really with you
When you need the most
Should you be completely transparent
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