What you eat makes a huge difference in how optimally your body operates. And what you spend time reading and…
A Recap of Stockade FC’s Inaugural Season in the NPSL (2016)
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by Andy Grayson and Graham North
Puns, slang, and other dorky ideas to get you ready for trick-or-treating.
In light of Hipmunk’s recent acquisition by Concur last week, I thought I’d publish an excerpt from my book, Without Their Permission, about the story behind its launch.
A year ago Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown said something on stage at Web Summit that…
Si je devais résumer mon aventure Teads en une courte phrase, voici sans hésiter ce qui me viendrait à l’esprit: « Que l’histoire fut belle! ». Oui, cette phrase serait à composer au passé, car mon aventure opérationnelle chez Teads s’arrête officiellement aujourd’hui, mardi 4…
The last thing I thought I’d ever make was a card game. A fucking card game, but I guess what…
An open letter from Evan Baehr, cofounder of Able.
Today is my last day at Able.
Five years into this extraordinary venture, I’ll step out of the cockpit to leave my incredible cofounder and…
When I was in college, I spent a lot of time in the library.
This is part 2 of a 4 part series. You can find the intro post here.
If you recall from the last post, I borrowed the metaphor of the “black box” from Andy Grove’s High Output Management to help us think about scaling.
TechCrunch Disrupt SF, which wrapped up last month, was packed with announcements and launches such as the new $999 autonomous driving add-on from Comma.ai and the new strategic plans of Pokemon go’s Niantic for the popular AR game. But we at Zirra found…
I thought I’d learned what I needed to know about negotiation. I went to a prestigious business school and took their negotiation class, learning all about Getting to Yes, BATNA, and other fancy acronyms. I’d also bargained my fair share in both work and personal life.
Reading through Geoff Smart’s and Randy Street’s “Who — A method for hiring” I came…
Onlab卒業生にインタビューをするLearn from Batch。今回は、語学学習サービス「Lang-8（ランゲート）」、ネイティブ・スピーカーに質問ができるQ&Aアプリ「Hinative（ハイネイティブ）」を開発するLang-8代表 喜洋洋氏に取材しました。
Plus some personal “oh-did-you-figure-that-out-yourself” thoughts!
I’ve settled in Tokyo for exactly a month now, and after joining events, visiting coworking spaces and talking to several people, I thought about…
At the beginning of the year, I wrote about my first five years at Europe’s number one e-Commerce company. It was a spontaneous piece I wrote while enjoying another great day at work (even though some friends in Berlin…
It’s been a crazy journey to get where we are today — and it’s ridiculously…
If I had to sum up my adventure at Teads in one short sentence, this is what comes immediately to mind: « Such a wonderful adventure it was! ». Yes, this sentence is to be conjugated in the past tense, because my operational adventure at Teads officially comes to an…
Have you ever wondered what is it like to be in the most star-studded capital of India? Let me pen down my experience.
As a VC, I work hard to earn the trust of my entrepreneurs. The moment I wire the money…
If you ask almost any early-stage B2B FinTech startup selling to banks what their biggest challenge is, the…
Benedict Evans made this observation in his latest technology newsletter:
“More than half of US shoppers start online with Amazon rather than Google…
Former RI student Gabrielle Ong made the Straits Times headlines recently, praised for pursuing her passion in coding and her decision to not enter college. Read the story here if you have not:
What is a business model? Like everything in business, there is no simple answer, as we can see in What Is a Business Model? (Andrea Ovans, 2015). The simple answer is “a plan on how to make money”. The more elaborate definitions go into business strategy territory.
Kidding. Or am I…
“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.” Joseph Campbell
I hope I hit the right button to respond to your comment...
Louisse, I was touched by your comment and may be able to offer some support or perspective. Perhaps this is just my attempt at being “useful”! In any event, helping people create purpose and meaning in their lives is what I do and I would be happy to sit down with…
Every new company has an official “first day”. In most cases, this is only meaningful to lawyers and HR/payroll systems. Most often, founders have been thinking and building for weeks, months, even years before that official first day. Despite its potential ephemeral nature, however, the…
In my last post, I told you how we structure our team at Datafiniti. Now I’m going to tell…
Every week, my DVR records the latest episode of Shark Tank. And every week, when I’m done…
Mainer, Performer, Silver Fox.
When I started studying Computer Science, I used to say as a joke that I chose IT because I just wanted to deal with computers, not with people. The truth is, in the end of the day, to work with IT, effectively communicating…
Below are the results of a query I ran in CB Insights — seeking to identify venture capital (VC) firms only (expressly listed as a VC firm) which have invested in at least 2 startups in…
This article is part of a series called “The Data-Driven Product Manager,” interviews with…
Poor UX can be the bane of a system. Even if your UI is polished and fashionable. Even if…
7月より社内向けに、前週一週間何があったのか、のレポートを書いています。取材記事が掲載されることもおかげさまで多く、Facebookでは都度報告をしていたのですが、Facebook…
Nés à la fin des années 1980, nous avons grandi en même temps qu’Internet. Ce même Internet dans lequel — en tant…
As of today, eCommerce specialist BE EXCELLENT has become an official part of Dept. The German agency is…
This is going to be short. What are white spaces in business, they are useful spaces that are currently ignored or unexplored. Simple! In Nigeria, there are so many problems to solve and the people passionate enough to solve them may not be as competent as they need to be to get maximize…
Creating value in your own life is definitely worthwhile.
Not starting sooner.
The UnSchool Emerging Leaders Fellowship alumni community is filled with…
I was at the Afrika Handmade gallery yesterday at Alliance Francaise. On show were locally made interior and garden crafts. Artefacts ranging from clay crockery to lighting fixtures made from baobab to garden furniture. All locally designed and…
The First Post
When I do things that are close to my heart, it motivates…
Hey you kids, get on my lawn. On Monday 10,000 people attended a party in the White House’s yard celebrating tech…
Originally posted on rebeccageorgia.com/stories
A few months ago, I saw a Destinesia featured on Product Hunt — a coliving/digital nomad company that moved around the world every 6 months. This summer, they were heading to Lisbon and…
I had a call earlier today with one of my CEO's. He tried to convince me his company had found product market fit. He shared how his team’s messaging is beginning to take hold in the market. They’ve been invited to speak at conferences. They’ve won…
Born in India I have always heard the win of GOOD over evil. Our world is changing faster than ever and here’s a story I would like to share with my kids. The WIN of Vision and Hardwork over Mediocrity.
There is no doubt cultural diversity is a growing issue today be it on the street or in the Board Room.
Zurich has created a new format for developers to access their insurance backend over APIs. This helps teams and startups to focus on innovation without having the hassle of handling the complex side of insurance backends. This is one of the…
El “cafecito de negocios”, aunque con buena intención, no conduce a la acción.
A few weeks ago, I sat with my buddy Oluyomi Ojo E (Founder of Printivo) at TerraCulture, we had decided to meet up after work and just chat about business and what we’re both doing. We both have eyes on East Africa and possibly will join forces as Naija…
Lately I’ve heard a few seed stage startups respond to questions about their current metrics with forecasted metrics. While forecasting is a useful tool (and I’ll get to that later in this post), when current…
Every time I say that most of venture investors think about portfolio companies from buy/sell perspective with little romance, people look at me as at a heartless creature. Well, nothing personal, just business.
Limakilo minggu ini punya agenda untuk berkunjung ke lahan petani mitra di Sleman. ‘Perjalanan dinas’ kali ini menitikberatkan pada penanganan pascapanen bawang merah, mulai dari treatment, penyimpanan, tempat penyimpanan, dan cek kondisi lahan. Lahan milik petani mitra di Sleman dikelola oleh…
In my first Medium post, I discussed how I disrupted a project presentation at my university. Today, I’d like to go over the main point of that article in greater depth.
October 9, 2016: This week’s essay takes a look at the personnel issues of trying to scale a company. A…
Workaholism can be defined by the fact of working hard, for hours and hours without being able to stop even during lunch times, week-ends, the whole day, even by nights. The digital helps to be more productive and effective but it…
스타트업 노매드 참가팀은 샌프란시스코에 위치한 액셀러레이터인 파운더스 스페이스(Founders Space)에서 현지 프로그램을 진행 중입니다…
As everyone knows, Facebook announced a few weeks ago that WhatsApp’s last update…
We have great news — we were chosen for the largest government-supported…
With all the splashy headlines, awesome perks and stories of large pay days, working at a…
BY: JAMES ALTUCHER
When you are in the Idea Machine, nothing can stop you. This is where abundance is. This is where seeds are planted. This is…
Having the vision and patience to build a sustainable company is no easy task. With Patience being the top characteristic in this formula, here are some of the keys.
Disrupt Cards is a card game that highlights and makes fun of startup culture and the tech industry in a way…
This month, we are thrilled to invite Karen to join our blog session to share her experiences in user research. Karen is UX consultant with over 9 years of experience working with multinational Fortune 500 companies, startups & nonprofits. Her studies in behavioral psychology have led her…
Reflecting upon my career as challenger, innovator & leader, I can safely say…
To meet the requirements of legal compliance, CosmEthics offers retailers an analysis of cosmetic product compositions, covering the entire product portfolio of their retail outlets in EU.
UIデザインカンパニーのグッドパッチが、海外拠点として台湾に子会社 谷德帕奇設計有限公司（Goodpatch Taiwan）を設立した。
Martin learned to program as a kid on his Commodore 64, but turned to economics for his studies before starting a career as a teacher. He then shifted to software development, which he has been doing for the past 15 years…
A hardware startup is like a train
What’s pulling the train ahead is the locomotive. For a hardware startup, the locomotive is marketing/branding, which…
A not so fascinating daily chronicle of a software engineer working in a startup located in Singapore (The tiny dot located between Malaysia and Indonesia in Southeast Asia).
Comparing the quarter that just ended to same quarter last year, startups got less than half the funding.
I’m proud to say I’ve never watched the show, and I wouldn’t be able to name the people in it (except for Kim; I learned who she was and found her such a vapid succubus that I made a point of not learning more). I don’t have television and my car radio is broken so I never have to hear the “news”bytes, and clicking away from her name and face online…
When Uniplaces started most people in Portugal didn’t even know what a startup was, and many were skeptical that they could turn a traditional market on its head. But, since then, a lot of things have changed. Uniplaces has raised one of the biggest Series A in Europe, they have…
Apologies for the delay in weeknotes over the last few weeks. They’ve been a victim to my…
The importance of having an operational expert in your team — even at an early stage
Friendz è nata tra un caffè e una fetta di torta, nell’appartamento di mia Nonna Imelda, nella primavera del 2015, in un paesino sperduto nella provincia di Varese.
Mc Donald’s just hired Omni Comment Omnicom to build up their performance advertising for their future needs. Omnicom will grow whole separate company around this case study :).
The difference between a good idea for a start-up and a truly successful company involves knowledge, perseverance, skill, and often more than a little luck. But you can help get your business off the ground more easily by incorporating…
After almost giving up a few months ago, Tahir William’s dream continues to slowly grow closer to a reality.
You probably know someone with cancer. I know I certainly do.
For this project, I wanted to create my own custom ping pong paddles and wanted to mess with the materials and the shaping of the paddles. Since the blade of the paddle (the part you hit the ball with) has standard dimensions, I decided to focus my project on manipulating…
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Creator Spotlight: Ed Flood
Have you seen EVOSSI on Hatchli? It’s an adventure clothing brand that was inspired by the lack of pocket-less athletic wear. We…
CityFALCON Financial News API for £20 Donation to ActionAid
The story goes that Nathan Mayer Rothschild, once reputed to be the wealthiest man of his…
Envoy is all about making things easier and more fun in the office. In that spirit, we are proud to bring you our new Envoy Office Hacks podcast series. Every week, we deliver the coolest, most ingenious, and just plain fun fixes people have invented to improve…
Hace 4 años se inició a gestar un movimiento de cambio hacia la innovación y tecnología en la ciudad de San Pedro Sula. Luego de numerosos eventos y conexiones nacionales e internacionales entre los miembros de la comunidad de emprendimiento, se está iniciando un nuevo…
By Daniel Chui
Artificial intelligence is a concept morphed into a branch of technology that involves development of…
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New season, new happenings. We got ready for the fall with several new product releases, a night at HQ with the JavaScript…
I was a pretty active trader throughout college before joining Merrill (for a whole 2 months before Bank of…
Bridge for Billions is an online incubator that helps early-stage entrepreneurs to structure, develop and refine their ventures. But how do we stand out from all the other incubation programs available? We have five unique features that differentiate us…
The food and beverage industry is undergoing unprecedented change. Whether it’s…
Paul McNeal never went to college but he sure loves to hang around college kids. Paul recently…
Another pretty lengthy article from me :-)
* All the mockups presented are just for illustration only and do not represent any sort of endorsement by the product owners.
We all know the drill…
You’re on a Google hangout with your squad, and someone pitches a new project…
Then THAT guy asks those fundamental filter questions:
You realise you use an ‘ing’ word in your first example? And in the anti-ing example itself?
All for keeping things simple, but use whatever words and phrases you need to.
‘We think you’ll love this product’ is more personal than ‘You’ll love this product’ and also lets the reader know you’ve spent…
19 year old Khaing Khaing Htay grew up in the Delta region. She dropped out of school in eighth grade to help her family by getting a job as a…
We know that customizing your CRM to fit your exact business requirements is your…
[1st of september] It’s about time. We are completed with our MVP and have our…
The Journey of Building a Community
In my personal life, I love to create — I sew, knit, quilt, embroider, make jewelry and more. When I create, it is a time to reflect, a quiet time like meditation.
Creating gives us space to discover new things, techniques and allows us to bring whimsy to the world…
クラウド名刺管理サービス「Sansan」が、NPO法人を支援する取り組み「Sansan for NPO」を開始する。
“Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.” — Bill Gates
We can’t hide it, it’s every early-stage startup Founder’s dream. Every CEO nowadays in the startup scene wants to have a very low Cost of Customer Acquisition via a scalable traffic source. That’s the ultimate dream, that’s how…
After a private and a public beta, we are very excited to launch Heek, a straightforward way to create a website through conversation.
We’ve had a phenomenal response to the product since we started to show it. First, the team (and particularly Naïm)…
Many moons ago I spent the summer working in Porto, Portugal. At the time, the country was far less developed than the rest of Western Europe. Portugal was lightyears behind the economies and hustle and bustle of its neighbors. But the people were friendly, the weather was nice and the…
A high priced assistant to get more from yourself on a day to day basis.
What’s the problem?
Sara is an investor. She’s made a few million over the last 5 years.
Many comparisons are made when talking about corporates and startups and, to be frank, they’re often not favourable to the corporates. Corporates are given credit for things like their pragmatism and brand power, whereas startups…
Fashion encompasses so many different aspects of people’s lives. It could be clothes, automobiles, home furnishing or electronic devices among others. The people who follow current fashion trends do so as a way of expressing themselves…
Deciding to outsource might just be one the best decisions you could make for your…
