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SaaS investors spend a lot of time examining the different go-to-market models and sales efficiency of businesses. Given the nature of subscription business models, customer acquisition is one of the most important attributes of a SaaS…
We started Dorm Room Fund in 2012 to build an onramp for students to become entrepreneurs and investors while still in school.
Four years later, Dorm Room Fund is active at top schools across the country. We’ve invested in…
Getting a match on Shapr is pretty easy (most of our users get at least one match during their first few days using the app). But sometimes taking the next step can seem a bit daunting. Here’s our advice to break the ice successfully, with…
This past week, I received three promotions from three separate on-demand food delivery companies offering things from “free delivery” to “$10 off”. With restaurants opting into multiple on-demand ordering platforms, I could have used each promotion to order from the exact…
Doubt.
Once a year in November, something special happens in Korea. Planes are grounded or…
Some ideas are great, and others… not so much. But would you believe that some of these seemingly terrible ideas went on to make at least a million dollars? It just goes to show that with hard work and a quirky…
I left Mozilla in December of 2015. Since then, you might have heard from me, or read on Business Insider…
The folly of making your personal identity = that of your business
“I became unethical…
And 5 other lessons I’ve learnt from the failure of my first startup.
Clients want to know all the time what some good examples of growth hacks are out there for retailers. For those unfamiliar with the topic, growth hacking is a combination of marketing and technology to seriously grow…
It was stuck in traffic in an Uber ride, amongst the concrete jungle of the 101 in Silicon Valley, that Matthew and…
Top Google AI expert Dr. Huican Zhu Joins to Reinforce AI-, Data-Driven Focus
Over the past eight years we have invested directly in more than sixty-five companies. We have also…
Dorm Room Fund is thrilled to announce our recent investment in Stash, a cross-device bookmarking tool powered by artificial intelligence.
Stash has set out to solve a problem many high-volume internet users run into…
We started Grain in 2014. The idea was to make food a few things — delicious, healthy, fast…
Writer: GabrielleThomas
Within the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the UN agenda to be achieved before 2030, the 4th is « Quality Education». A Tech VC point of view about Impact Edtech start-ups.
by Jared Karol
1, Does working longer make us more successful. Think back to your biggest success, did that stem from just plain…
Vorige week tijdens de Amsterdam Capital Week nam ik deel aan een pitch workshop van David Beckett. Hij heeft 300+ startups gecoacht die samen meer dan 90 miljoen euro aan investeringen…
My name is Aarish, and I’m a generalist.
The business of technology, for an interconnected world.
By Brad Stone
In Seoul, Samsung executives accelerated the production of their newest smartphone, the Note 7. It led to battery fires in Ohio and China, a global…
The world has plenty of investment firms. You would have a tough time making the case that it needs another hedge fund, another private equity buyout fund, or another tech VC. Many LPs of those funds would certainly disagree with you if you tried.
It’s been an amazing 12 or so months for Zojul. We’ve created something real, and built a community. That takes a huge…
The Start
Non so per quale motivo in Italia si è deciso che il digitale non dovesse essere una delle industrie su cui…
I am often asked why we created Splacer.
I found my niche late in life. After working in tech, telecom, as an educator, and as a…
Now you can really can get almost any chore or small home repair completed with the Takl App. In addition…
Three years ago we launched Influx out of a widespread need to just answer tickets. I was running the Dropbox for WordPress plugin, which was doing really well as a side project, but I didn’t have any time to answer tickets. I needed someone to just answer tickets, so I…
Prenota il tuo posto e partecipa al migliore startup-workshop dove imparerai come ideare, costruire e lanciare un nuovo prodotto sul mercato.
Dopo le tappe di Milano e Roma, arriva anche a Trento la Hardware Class: il…
Korporacje chciałyby być innowacyjne, dokładniej rzecz ujmując chciałyby być innowacyjne te korporacje, które są challengerami w swoich kategoriach. Sztuką jest chcieć się zmieniać jeśli jesteś najlepszy, dlatego…
By Carolyn King, RBC
If you’ve been hearing more about angel investing lately, you’re not alone. Because of widespread digitization, the process of starting a company has changed…
Change will never be this slow again. The Hyperloop One is…
O HQBeds é uma ideia ambiciosa de dois geeks que sabiam como programar sistemas mas não entendiam nada…
What’s the difference between US Government sales and selling to the Commercial market?
It’s like night and day.
Sales and Marketing to the government is truly the flip side of those functions in commercial…
I have been thinking about how I want my career to play out. Especially over the last few days. I am currently working…
*let me start by saying that this post is not intended by any means to admire Pablo…
I sat down with Ms. Green, owner of the Fort Collins consignment store Repeat Boutique, to hear about the store’s history, buying process, and some of the crazy items consignors sell (chimpanzee fur!).
Today we’re psyched to announce two new part-time partners at Notation. Christina and Joe join an already impressive group, and bring deep experience in product design and hardware. The Notation…
I cheated my boss into paying me tens of thousands of rupees while I sat in my pajamas at home watching Netflix.
He was too busy to assign specific tasks for me to do while I ‘worked from home’. I had the bandwidth of taking up at least 3x more work. I couldn’t be bothered though.
Has the DAM lightbulb clicked on with your marketing team yet? You’re in good company. It happens to every marketing department as they grow — and it’s a really good sign. Requests for images are up, demand for video content is…
Two years ago I arrived here hoping to be able to stay or, at least, find a way not to return to a Venezuela that had gone…
Say hello to Zombocam, a browser extension that brings you beautiful filters and effects for your webcam. You can use Zombocam on any web page where you use your webcam: Facebook, Appear.in, you name it! No dodgy…
The Flat6Labs family is excited to welcome its two newest Flat6Labs Abu Dhabi members, with Victor Kiriakos taking the helm as Managing Director joining early April 2016 and Omar Kandil as Program Manager joining late August 2016.
Há cerca de 6 anos decidi abrir minha própria empresa, naquela época eu nem sabia o que era uma…
For an owner, there’s nothing more frustrating than paying for rework because a building…
There are a whole assortment of tech events from The Bay to LA. However, since The Bay has a strong tech…
Would you like to get some advise from Seth Godin? Have a dinner with Tim Ferriss? Learn…
Who has never dreamed about quietly (or not, depending on your personal taste for drama) standing up and walking away from that 4 hours long mechanical engineering class, to only come back 5 years later to give a lecture on entrepreneurship, after having been ranked 5th on the…
“A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when…
The first week on the journey to building @salyuda. Starting from a deep understanding of who we are and from this creating a vision of the future we are going to create. From here we build.
When you find something you’re passionate about, you latch onto it and don’t let go. And perhaps Ryan might say we’re embellishing his story a little bit, or giving him more credit than he deserves, but we think he’s pretty awesome at what he does. The fact that he’s been coding and…
When you run a distributed team one of the hardest things to manage is your teams happiness. Not their happiness in life…
This response was prompted by Onny Chatterjee in our internal Slack channel at Continuum posting the…
Interview with the founders of CokoDeal | Africa’s largest locally produced goods marketplace ecommerce
A live blog on a startup experiment.
At 9:50 today I issued a challenge to myself, my team, and my community. I wanted to show that bringing an idea to fruition does not require years, months, or even weeks. Or so I hope.
I aint even mad, bro. in fact, who.dafuq.ru?
The long wait is finally over!
As of today the uKonect app is available on iOS and Android. Don’t waste a second…
先週の話になってしまいましたが、KVPの支援先のCBcloudがタイトルの通りサービスお披露目のタイミングで見事な結果を得ることが出来ました！
First off, I love the extreme level of transparency you gave about this season and how it all came together. The vision you have cast is ambitious, but your numbers show it is very doable.
I have just started doing some merchandising for a UK team’s supporters group local to me, and there were a couple of things that might…
From Watson to Tensor Flow to Neural Networks to Jon Connor, Artificial Intelligence is on practically every executive’s mind.
We hear a lot in the news about corporate greed — corporations have a responsibility to maximize profits for shareholders over all else, leading to cost-cutting measures that hurt employees, communities, and the environment. But there’s a…
Being healthy and fit is what everyone needs now a days, for the same purpose we have selected 7 wonderful apps/websites that will help you stay healthy and fit, without taking in consideration the age factor. They will help you in improving your heath/diet as per…
Originally written by Ben Sun on Primary Venture Partners’ Blog
We have long held that the biggest winners in NextGen Commerce are those direct-to-consumer startups that go up against…
SF Made hosted a FREE factory tour today at Mafia Bags! Mafia Bags repurposes old sails into new bags. You can visit them at 1122 Howard street to buy bags or trade in your old sails for bags.
My takeaways:
Home security cameras and sensors seem like a good idea, but paying a monthly fee for storage and monitoring can be a huge drawback. The SENS8 system, now being funded as an Indiegogo campaign, aims to change that, with cloud storage provided via Dropbox…
It’s very astute. That article Rayna tagged you in a couple weeks ago felt like that too. I’m happy to see you seem to have accepted that this Sad state you’re living in right now doesn’t have to mean everything will ALWAYS be shit. It just is right now.
By Ben Zifkin founder of Hubba.
There’s a lot of opinions out there on how to successfully create, validate and grow your Startup, and…
To celebrate my 60th post on Medium, I thought it would fun to just put them in one big list (ordered by views, descending). I was a guest on a podcast recently, and the host asked me how I managed to “write so much”. After mentioning some examples of people who write 10x as much, and with…
Celebrar o fracasso está na moda. O fracasso, dizem, seria uma espécie de portal para um mundo de novas…
Today is a monumental day for Optimizely and our customers. I’m pleased to share that Optimizely X: The Experimentation Platform we announced last month at Opticon is now generally available.
15 September is celebrated as Engineer’s Day in India in memory of Sir M. Visvesvaraya. He is one of the best engineers the world has ever seen. We, as Indians, should be proud of him.
Last month I received an email from Shri Raksha, a Firefox Student Ambassador & Club lead…
Mentoring and coaching very early stage startups can sometime be a delicate balance between adding value…
I’m so excited to finally introduce a service that my team and I have been developing over the past year. Lovingly named Hiro Baby…
Have you ever thought to yourself: I just had the best idea, and it could be BIG. But where do I start? How do I…
We were humbled by the others who joined us in South By South Lawn’s mission to improve lives. People of a wide…
Pranayama is a yogic breathing practice. It’s a practice by which you regulate your breath through breathing techniques to alter the states…
Dr. Spencer Silver was a scientist at 3M, United States.
Like seriously? I read the post from Naofal and I read your comment and I am sorry to say you are criticizing.
I was raised in Africa, did my studies in Europe and came back to my home country Cameroon, and I am completely aligned with Naofal. Africa has issues but who does not? We have great challenges in some domains but…
Listen.
AMMA Private Equity is a boutique Private Equity and Venture Capital firm that focuses exclusively on raising capital for start-up companies in the emerging tech sector.
I’ve decided to write reflections on my work as I go. It’s the start of an ongoing effort to poke both holes and fun in my thinking then and now. And hopefully come…
I recently joined GMS (Growth Mentoring Service), an entrepreneur mentoring service covering the KC…
If you’ve be doing customer support, you know it sucks to copy paste things between your helpdesk and your admin system.
You read the ticket in your helpdesk, then you need to go look up the customer profile in your admin…
So many words were already said and written about the DLD conference, Israel’s largest hi-tech event. taking place in Tel Aviv, the heart of “StartUp Nation”, it brings together hundreds of startups, VC’s, angel…
and you literally can’t even!
Entrepreneur, Harvard, Philanthropist, Activist, Lobbyist.
by Leonardo Zakour
I wrote this because of a Slack Community I’m in through connections with little discoverability.
A new coworking spot is here! Moxe is a South Loop space dedicated to building a strong, business-focused community that…
Interview 1 — “Martin”, Psychologist with restless leg syndrome
Questions
To be honest, I’m pretty disturbed by the focus on just major cities in a lot of Swedish thinking — seems to be thinking all about the big cities? … sorry, Stockholm — because there is so much talent ACROSS the country … in a country that is better served by infrastructure than most countries … and in a country that is frankly, not that big.
UX Manager vs. Product Manager. This is usually a problematic relationship, as many product…
A client and I are recruiting wine drinkers from across the country for an insight and…
As a Community Manager at Inspire9, one of my daily tasks is to give people tours of our coworking space. This morning I provided a tour to a writer, who asked me about our opening hours, and the possibility of accessing it outside the 9–5 window.
Startup’s slam new R&D release
The Australian startup community has widely criticised the government’s proposed changes to the R&D tax incentive, slamming its focus on big businesses and saying the limitations may force local early-stage startups to relocate abroad.
For the past year or longer, I’ve read medium posts every night before heading to bed. I read them to…
The Meritocracy of SV is largely a myth of a bygone age. It may have been like this decades ago when Founders and Employees worked together and shared largely in the success, however it was generally when the failed financiers who couldnt cut it on Wall Street began to control the reigns of power that it became a Good Ol’ Boys club (and I do mean…
After changing my degree, I got that question a lot. My thoughts on the subject not only extend to the current state of our economic system but also reveal some personality, so makes for a good first (real) blog post. This blog is going to be a strange mix of mutterings about business, tech…
5 meses y ya estoy lanzando Aterrízala.com, les contaba el pasado 1ro de Agosto, día en que decidí darme a conocer con todos ustedes. Y desde entonces muchas cosas han cambiado.
Some valid points in the text.
You have being doing a lot to help people like me understand a very incomprehensible world like UA, so my approach to meet you will be to add you value even before I ask you for a coffee.
If that way doesn’t work, in wich other situations (not paid) do you feel…
Page 1 — What’s In The Past Should Remain In The Past
Today, when you think of the past, you’d either laugh at your self, or cry. This is the Now & Then of Vijay Shekhar Sharma*.
I’m battling with things that you cite in the article.
I have my company, I’m making a camera of sorts and I make small movies. I’ve entrenched myself in learning about vc and Angel investors and such. I don’t see a path without being the bullish asshole, without being dishonest and not giving a shit about where I’m going…
Certainly, there are those among us who have an innate affinity for long hours and risky ventures, but the fundamentals of starting a business are within reach of all of us so long as we have the desire to…
I met Elaine (online) when we started looking for families who lost someone dear on the 9/11 terror attacks. She lost her…
Growing up, we were always told of what we can do and what we can’t do. This is very common for most African children. You are told you can’t do something without giving you any…
“All successful people inevitably leave footprints behind them.”– Bob Steele
Someone once told me that the ideal size for a human community is something in the order of 500 people…
Del 17 al 22 de Octubre aprovecha para visitar Yachay en un Tour orientado a la Innovación, con talleres prácticos…
I met with Sarah Johnson and Matt Sprague, who lead the Keepers of the Culture team, at their office to…
Being an entrepreneur has been the “cool new thing” to do and to be.
8 best qualities of a beauty salon artisan
Can you imagine life without having a beauty salon around? The answer would be no. The first thing any lady, or gentleman for that matter, would check once they move into a new locality…
I like mathematics, because maths gives us formulas.
A Formula is awesome! It’s simple, you understand the formula, apply the formula, and it solves your problem! Sweet Mother of Jesus!
DISCLAIMER: This is my first post on Medium. I’m very excited about writing great things on my specialty field.
I will get better as the time goes — I’ll do my best I promise.
In today’s world, many of us work regularly with team members located in different buildings, cities or even countries. Some of us may see our team members in person more regularly or some of us may not even see our team at all. A recent Gallup…
Keeping infrastructure management within the Techstars family
In recent years, we’ve experienced a business startup boom, especially in the tech world…
You have your business goals. The numbers are good but frankly, you want more.
You can increase production. Hire more sales people. Add new features. Or you can keep adding products and expand your offering to sell more and more. The ways are somewhat…
You’re about to read the first part of a series of blog posts on the most common reasons why software projects fail. Unfortunately, it’s much more difficult to run a successful projects than one might think. Supposedly, 68% of them…
Oh my flying spaghetti monster. Or God. I really loved this episode, so much that I couldn’t sleep the night after we recorded. The concepts and discussion were something that I’ve wondered about and wrestled with in my head for a long time.
