Manners Matter.
“During the 17th century, in France, manners became…
The data for this model was gotten from here. It is customer data for an unidentified telecommunications company.
The model used to predict churn was K-Nearest Neighbours. The overall accuracy was 90%. 9 out of 10 customers who…
“How much is my…
Charlie Munger, the billionaire business partner of Warren Buffett, frequently…
Over the last years, Berlin has been on the path of becoming Europe’s most active…
My barber is one of the most brilliant people I know.
By Janet Napolitano, President of the University of California
When you think of a startup’s humble roots, you probably think of a college dorm room or someone’s basement. But in 2006, a small utility room was set aside…
After France, we’re continuing our tour of the different European SaaS landscapes with the Nordics region — Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway and Iceland. In an attempt to get a global picture of this ecosystem we’ve listed 200+ SaaS…
To serve your customers, you should understand them. And to understand them, you need data…
I have been talking to a lot of friends and friends of friends as of late about their careers and life aspirations.
Something about being in our late twenties has awoken us from a dogged sprint in creating our careers since entering the workforce…
Knowing how to get your idea off the ground…
by John Feighery and Annie Feighery, co-founders at mWater
A brief history of Matterport and Virtual Reality
When we founded Matterport in 2011, virtual reality was beyond the horizon, a technology that had captured everyone’s imagination for decades but had never delivered. We were focused on a…
To kick off our first blog post, I figured it made sense to spend some time explaining why we started DNSFilter and where the idea came from. So, here it goes:
Approximately ten years ago I founded Anaptyx while attending Boston College. Our original focus was…
A few months ago, at Gorgias, we decided it was time to open up our beta program to more companies. Therefore, we started looking for companies that we thought could be a good fit for our product. Here’s the method and the tools we used…
This week on our Org Designer Slack channel, a conversation came up about how to best organize teams and depict organizational structure. These questions have been around since at least 1855, when the New York and Erie…
Back in August I went on a creative retreat in the Tasman Peninsula for two weeks. It was quiet…
This week we acquired workhound.com. We’ve be trying to do so since launching…
If you organize an event, this might be of interest. We used it successfully for some of our own Leade.rs events and a few event organizers liked it so we made it a co-branded product any event can use.
One of my favorite things to do as an entrepreneur is to emulate those that I look up too.
There’s been chatter over the years about Fund economics — specifially whether carry should be calculated on a fund level, or on a deal by deal basis. With the rise of Syndicates and SPVs (and the rise of Angelist as a platform for both), I…
Despite her unorthodox methods,Tutu Soleye left a strong impression on me at the end of my orientation classes at ARM. As opposed to many who didn’t like her, I did, and I wish I had stayed in touch with her post the orientation classes.
As a Series A and B investor, one of the most common questions I receive from founders is: “what metrics do I need to be a good candidate for Series A funding?”. I completely understand why founders ask that question. It’s a valuable input into their planning process and directly…
tl;dr: OfferUp and LetGo built effective hyper-local marketplace tools and drove liquidity but are threatened by the newly launched Facebook Marketplace. VarageSale, on the…
スタートアップの初期の戦略とビジネスモデルを作るためのツールセットと考え方のスライドを書きました。
などについて解説してます。
At KiteDesk, we are working on finalizing our Sales Playbook for our entire sales team.
“Follow your passion.” Bar none, this is the most common career advice I hear given to young folks these days. The idea behind this statement has a lot of power, however I fear its underlying sentiment is misinterpreted. Dangerously, I think “finding your passion” has been conflated…
It’s been over a month since we announced our US Investment office. In that time the…
While we’ve seen drones fail to perform human tasks like cutting hair, Telia recently teamed up with DDB Oslo to successfully bake a cake with a swarm of quadcopters.
I want to start off with some context for you guys.
In this series, we profile entrepreneurs and their journeys from idea to actualization. From proprietors of well-established businesses to…
Do we know what we are doing? Yes.Do we do it the same way every time? No.
We have a toolbox and an attitude. The attitude is simple — work hard, be nice to people and be brilliant at listening. We are an experienced and skillful team. Our process is modular, adaptable and designed to support bold…
It’s a long story. But, I’ll sum it up in three words. I got tired.
TODAY, we are excited to open applications for the 2017 Cohort 1 Coaching Fellowship. This is our 8th program, and once again we are thrilled to be providing coaching opportunities to 50 of the most extraordinary young women…
参加者も関係者もあれは最高だったと言う。その魔法を解明したい。
ここではくりかえしお伝えしてますが、8月〜9月は「500 KOBE PRE-ACCELERATOR」というプログラムに参加していました。
先日、運営者と参加者が再度集まってそのプログラムの振り返りイベントを行ったんで、Mediumでも共有します。
By: Christian Hernandez, Managing Partner
Interview by Allison Grinberg-Funes
1. Start with an idea, and don’t tell anyone until you have it figured out.
We’ve been confronted recently with some pretty harsh realities about Silicon Valley. The Hampton Creek fiasco is only the most recent in a long…
Say hello to Benas — car racing enthusiast, vinyl music producer, graffiti painter and skater. He works…
Last week Leo published a great article about Startup Cargo Cults. Here’s a snippet:
Our brains are wired to take examples of success and extract “lessons” from them, but these lessons often range between innocuously…
Startup ideas are solutions. Think about it: Have you downloaded an app in the past year or two, then advocated it to others because it solved a problem for you? Citymapper is an absolutely fantastic solution for getting around London and many other cities. TransferWise is taking the…
This week we started Techstars Connection, in partnership with AB InBev — an accelerator program…
When you organize your meetups & how you time them can make or break your community. In this post I’ll tell…
University: Carleton University
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Please be reminded that all MCs are required to do the following, or else your MC status will be suspended.
Do:
The rise of a new energy era!
While times are getting exciting with…
Since we launched Quartz four years ago, we’ve been convinced that the extension of internet access around the world is among the most important phenomena of our day. And since 2013 we’ve been convening top thinkers and executives around this theme to…
Just like with any budding industry there are common problems we see time and time again within the startup accelerator community. None of the problems are major, but at Outset we believe a few tweaks here and there could help to bolster the industry if they are…
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement…
Through our previous story So, you want to build an app , you may have ironed out the details of how to make it work for you and your tech team. The next step would be budgeting for your app.
It kind of bums me out when investors say they won’t chat with a founder without an introduction from someone they trust. I understand why a VC would do this; if you’ve been around long enough — and are halfway…
Je viens de finir de lire le “grand” The Lean Startup, écrit par Eric Ries. Alors que je m’en vante largement sur Facebook me risquant à en poster une photo, je repense à toutes les personnes qui me l’avaient mentionné…
The length of the free trial for your SaaS or any other service, cannot be answered in absolute terms. Too often you hear “Short is better” “Put pressure on the customer” “The Shorter, the more engagement per day is possible” “Shorter means a lower CAC” etc. But I…
Over the past two decades, we have seen a revolution in physical health, and with recent technologies like Apple’s…
How glamorous ..Startup ..Being called a co-founder ..Being called a CEO ..Is this what you think?
Modern insan; bir işe sahip olup, haftada en az beş gün işine gidip gelen, kendisine uygulanan ücret…
I live in a world where, “entrepreneur is the new sexy”. Where not a day goes by, without someone calling…
With the startup wave hitting the country, and some major disruption seen by the restaurant industry has encouraged a lot of people to start up their own restaurant venture. Professionals and home cooks alike, people are now fueling their passion for food and getting in the…
스타트업 노매드 참가팀은 샌프란시스코에 위치한 액셀러레이터인 파운더스 스페이스(Founders Space)에서 현지 프로그램을 진행 중입니다. 오는…
It’s an overcast Monday morning in Chicago, Il. Coffee is brewing in a small two bedroom furnished apartment I’ve called home since late June. The TV has the morning news playing in the background and the neighboring Chocolate Factory is roasting and churning out chocolate the way…
É um pouco engraçado, cômico, mas também trágico. Andei procurando pelos milhões de gurus empreendedores que temos pelo nosso Brasilzão, e poucos, para não dizer apenas uma falam da apresentação em formato Pitch.
Fast Forward was founded in 2014 to bring the same level of support found in for-profit incubators and accelerators to tech non-profits. The firm provides its members with grants, pro-bono support, and a network of…
Churn is when a customer stops using a company’s product or cancels his subscription. Considering that retaining an existing customers is usually cheaper than acquiring a new customer, it will be valuable to a company if it could predict which customers…
What brought to Thailand to launch a start-up?
When we founded DRVR two years ago in the garden of my Melbourne flat I did not forsee that we would be in Thailand and Myanmar. It’s a question I’m often asked. Why Thailand? There are many…
We are OpenWaterSwim team from Aalto University SCI project course. Our members are…
‘Would Bruce Wayne be Batman without his Batmobile and all of his other gadgets? Would Tony Stark be Iron Man…
Change. Excitement. Uncertainty. Three nouns synonymous with start-ups, and coincidentally, accurate descriptions of my life the past couple weeks.
Over the weekend, Inscope Medical officially turned two years old. This is the age when children transition from being called an infant or baby to when they’re called a toddler. It’s also when parents SHOULD stop counting their age in months. Ahem.
If you are raising a seed you are probably thinking of many questions along the lines of “Do…
In our case, the video game industry. Today we will review the data that, from our point of view, are the most relevant. We will also share interesting links that we believe deserve to be carefully visited.
We’ve decided to focus on small businesses! Here’s how our team narrowed down to one…
Dr. Piraye Yurttas Beim, CEO, Celmatix
— From our co-founder, Nathan, founder of Gamer Duel.
If you’ve ever heard me talk at a tech event in the city you know I’m the first one to complain about the glorification of failure in tech — so before we get into the story let’s get this one…
I’m exhausted. September kicked my ass. Once again net sales grew from the previous month. I…
Over the years I’ve bounced around quite a bit in the engineering world; I’ve found myself actively developing applications on the front-end, middleware, platform, and even munging around in data warehouses. I guess you could call me a “full-stack” engineer.
Right from checking the weather before stepping out of home to browsing…
India is the world’s fastest-growing big economy and a bastion of brainpower. It’s also an innovation laggard.
Blame its academics. In Thomson Reuters’ latest ranking of the world’s most innovative…
Of late, I’ve immersed myself in business books on the subject of entrepreneurship and…
At Hitch, we like to share what we are working on so we can get feedback as early as possible. This…
“Our company is based on the beliefs that our customers’ needs are of the utmost importance. Our entire team is…
Information extraction using natural language processing.
Here’s how to build a successful startup under 90 seconds …
Sometimes you come across businesses that seem to have most of the right ingredients in place.
This article is a synopsis of SMEs I would invest in, if I had the chance — more thoughts to come in the future.
October is a huge month for Uvolt. Not only are the first prototypes of an actual watch being produced, but we’re also leaving for the city of light next week!
That’s right; Uvolt was named amongst the TOP 50 startups worldwide in the energy sector! Which is why…
Invisibles, les femmes entrepreneures ? Plus vraiment ! Elles n’en demeurent pas moins minoritaires : en 2015 elles représentaient 39,6% des créateurs d’entreprises.
Today, an increasing number of start-ups and artists are utilizing the crowdsourcing phenomenon…
Tech Exclusion
Austin, Texas — When the two-cofounders of Austin accepted my application to Austin Startup week, I was thrilled and had also just received a complimentary…
Over the last few years, the mobile Internet ecosystem has become an increasingly difficult environment for new companies to emerge and grow compelling businesses. Sure, we have…
I’m watching you
A quick search on Google, or the Apple App Store for “friend finder app” will throw up a plethora of results. There are countless apps that…
Stress is part of everyday life, and for the majority, it is a serious problem. Stress does cause…
It’s not the right time.
In media, storytellers tend to present key breakthroughs by creatives in all kinds of fields as distinct, catalytic and movie-like moments of realization, where the creative protagonist suddenly puts pieces together that enlighten his path for the rest of his life. I…
There are plenty of “how to” resources for getting your foot in the door with VCs, but they all boil down to one thing: get a warm intro from a “trusted advisor”.
Se oggi vi condivido la foto di un pinguino non è per via del grande caldo di…
When this show was first conceived, I did not expect the overwhelming response I received for my request to interview fellow women entrepreneurs. I guess we all feel the same…
Recently the excellent team at Product Hunt facilitated a Q&A with a variety of questions for a bunch of successful entrepreneurs like Lori Greiner, Dave McClure & Jason Calacanis. It’s a great read and I…
This summer I started working on Median.fit. Great idea: Analyze data from your fitness trackers. Started coding.
Facebook estimates 450 million people make exchanges in their local buy and sell…
Hoy estamos apenas en el inicio de una nueva generación de empresas. Si bien, ya son varios años que se escucha este movimiento emprendedor, aún no se consolida con el desarrollo de empresas que sean sostenibles en el tiempo. Hay muchos eventos y congresos que fomentan…
Editors’s note: This article has been reviewed and extended on 10/02/2016, after attending…
Tips and pitfalls from the not-so-fortunate campaign of our Network Startup Filisia Interfaces.
89 days ago I got a Tweet notification that instantly confirmed my greatest worry.
As I read the tweet from my phones lock screen I was overcome with the unexpected feeling of relief, which still seems odd to me, given all the time, hard work, and success my team and I had with SnapMemories — a third party Snapchat app that…
Seven tips for Sales Managers to make Operations Happy
Some time ago I took over a sales force that had average productivity for their industry. They had about average turnover of sales reps and about average order size and install time as well.
“Ireland is a bridge for the future & opportunity.”
Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft
Today, Microsoft gathered 500+ people from all over the country to share their view on the future of tech. Convention Centre was full of…
Skin care regimens should be a mandatory custom, rather than being an occasional indulgence. As the name suggests, Final Touch endows you with the last say you have for your looks. We thrive to mirror the image of a woman that is downright comfortable in…
Hear that? It might just be the death knell for Airbnb/vacation rental self-management.
No matter how you cut it, this was a rough week for those who believe owner-managed…
A strategic talent plan makes all the difference to your business success
Change happens. When it happens, there’s going to be resistance to that change.
Hace varios años y por diversas razones he estado en una relación cercana al mundo de los emprendimientos en salud, al menos en lo que a Chile respecta. Durante este tiempo, ya hemos realizado al menos dos MeetUp relacionados con emprendimientos, en…
When an entire company can agree and believe in their values it empowers everyone to make a massive impact on the business. Execs sitting around a table listing generic mottos and phrases results in a watered down message that likely is not what the company actually believes and is inspired…
We have moved to Shanghai 10 days ago and I get asked relatively often what are HK’s strengths.
For me, it has always been the possibility to test a solution very simply/quickly and see if it sticks. You would not grow large teams of…
Doubtlessly the most important fact when it comes to analyzing Unilever’s purchase of Dollar Shave Club is the $1 Billion price. That’s the amount of money you need to buy Los Angeles Lakers. But in the world of…
Here are three things you should never do with Illumineto Spark.
I’m sure that those who have studied (or who are still studying) find that there is never enough month left at the end of your money. I found a nifty hack to solve that exact problem, while at the same time starting my first business. This is my first Medium post so it may be bit…
Adriaan Esterhuizen, our Senior Creative, shares his guidelines on how to take a break from work without taking leave.
10 Minute Writes — 0001
I’ve been lucky to have met many entrepreneurs in my 25 years. Just writing how old I am astounds me — and I’m sure some of the seasoned vets reading this are just laughing their asses off (lol).
So I made it to Barcelona straight out of the Oktoberfest.
Tips to Get Your Compliance Program Going
“Regulatory compliance describes the goal that organisations aspire to achieve in their efforts to ensure that they are aware of and take steps to comply with relevant laws and…
Toby Larocque is an entrepreneur who is better known for business skills through which he took many businesses from bottom to the top. He has seen many ups and downs in his life which made him a strong man. When it…
On Sunday, I took a morning flight from Barcelona to Lisbon. It was my first time in…
The HandsOn Startup Tour will be in the city of light this October 4 to gather together the local community and identify its 2 most promising startups before our European Finals.
LinkedIn: Fernando FabreTwitter: @fabref
The World Wide Web has made day-to-day things in our life extremely easy. And it includes paying bills, shopping or even, travelling. And as you feel like you are ready to make a pilgrimage to the holy…
The past few weeks have been amazing for me. I finally got to enjoy the drive and…
So you are in your 20s and you have learned that your credit score will stay with you the rest of your life. Before you can have good credit you need to understand what credit is. Credit is a way for lenders to know if you are a reliable borrower. The higher credit…
