“The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.” — Neil deGrasse…
When people asked what I do for a living at conferences or parties, I told them I run data strategy. Their first response was “oh, that’s cool”. Then they paused for a moment and asked “what do you do exactly?”
of product tasks and business urgencies.
This is the second post in the series. The first part, How Warby Parker Captured…
The fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) sector is the fourth largest sector in the Indian economy, involving a turnover of Rs 500 billion. This sector generally includes a wide range of daily consumer product such as soaps, dairy products, confectionary, soft…
Within a few minutes of being out of college I had already decided the corporate world just wasn’t for me. Wearing “business dress” each day made me feel fake. The corporate ladder had zero appeal to me, and the…
Salesforce just had their annual conference this week called Dreamforce where around 150,000 people show up to see new feature…
Working at a startup that builds on top of Slack’s platform, I have a ton of experience with Slack. There are integrations…
Slack is one my favorite reasons of why I love working at startups. As a disclaimer, these slack conversations are posted by my own volition. The tech team works extraordinarily hard and are exceptional at what they do. Without further ado, here are my favorite slack conversations at work that…
“Arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have…
Spoken by someone who’s done nothing but web development. As an IT veteran of 20 years, I can tell you that ALL software development is complicated. Web development is certainly not the most complicated, either. Have you ever been involved with Windows operating system development? I have, and it is wickedly complicated. Have you ever been involved…
If you have read my latest blog, you probably know that I started a co-living startup with 3 associates 7 months ago.
IndieBio is excited to announce our newest class of thirteen biotech startups. These companies are…
We all face different challenges when starting a company, but most founders will…
We’ve been actively working on Revue for over a year now and we’re really excited about the…
Grant Hamm and Arick Morton, two Raleigh, NC-based serial entrepreneurs, have teamed up to tackle the $1 trillion health care real estate market with their latest startup, VisionLTC. The…
A Personal Crisis in the Professional World
On a cool, calm summer afternoon in 2014, sitting on the beach in Nantucket, the peace and beauty of the ocean was interrupted when I got a call from my doctor. With a quiet voice, she told me she had my biopsy results and I had cancer. She wanted to know when I’d be back home so…
A close friend of mine who is also an exceptional teacher recently introduced me to a concept in education called vulnerability modeling. I realized that it’s a technique I’ve used in interviews for years to make…
So, we sold Diverse Solutions for a second time, but this time I had to say goodbye. Diverse Solutions is small real estate tech company founded in 2005. I was the first employee. It’s been eleven years but it feels like we founded DS yesterday.
To make it as a successful Pricing Manager, there are many desirable skills/traits…
Ugh, Budget Season!
For most of us, we are beginning budget season or we are in the midst of budget season spending crazy hours manipulating numbers, building models, and meeting with department heads to create a workable first draft of…
Dorm Room Founders is a series of interviews focused on sharing the stories of Dorm Room Fund Founders and how they got started as student entrepreneurs.
UPDATE 03/17: Omnibank is now renamed ibanity for compliance reasons, you can read why in our latest story.
Omnibank aims at providing software developers an API to access bank information. Getting hooked up to your data shouldn’t take more…
By Carolyn King, RBC
If you want to understand how crucial a cluster can be to a country’s economic and cultural life, think of Florence during the Renaissance. The Italian city-state was teeming with…
You think I am messing with your brain!
A few months ago, I decided the only way to balance my work-life balance was by stepping back from my job. PayU India is a special company. In my nearly 4 years at PayU India, we have raised the bar in the payments industry in India. We have amazing customers, a great product which gets better with every…
Today, Funderbeam and Zagreb Stock Exchange (ZSE) announced a joint venture that will make investors able to invest in growth companies in South-east Europe and trade their investments. The common goal is defined as creating…
It is surprisingly hard to do a thing like this, and I’ll try to explain why, how to do…
First-time founders find themselves doing many, many things for the first time. One of them is hiring a lawyer. Articles of incorporation, bylaws…
This post will step you through all you need to set up a lightweight learning cadence with users. It assumes you’re a small-to-medium team and don’t have structured one-on-one feedback loops with the people who use your product. This one’s not about testing…
It’s that time again! We’ve worked hard all summer to bring you our favorite…
There’s a good feeling that comes with actually following through and completing something. Against…
Pricebaba started with a ambitious online to offline approach, connecting consumers to local retailers. In 2016, we declared this part of our business a failure along with the reasons. However the amount of traction Pricebaba generated (at peak ~INR 60cr worth of leads every month), there were…
Er zat geen Newspresso in je inbox vanochtend. Misschien viel het je op, dacht je: ‘WTF, wáár is mijn shot nieuws’, en ben je al een paar uur chagrijnig. Ik hoop het. Sorry, in dat geval.
Up until ten months ago my career had been primarily in the world of corporate IT, where IT is seen as a cost of doing business. When…
“Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and…
Liam Sargent is a three-time intern (Datalennial) and now a full-time software engineer at Cloudera. Liam graduated from James Madison…
I recently returned to the University of Waterloo’s architecture campus to watch my friend Amanda defend her thesis. Being there brought back nostalgia in the form of familiar faces, all-black outfits…
As an an entrepreneur, you sometimes meet people who genuinely want to look out for you. In an attempt to lower your…
In May, we posted about the various characteristics and actions we expect from Founders at the pre-Seed stage. We described the size of the raise needed ($250–750K) to attract talent, explore a market insight, approach product/market fit…
CRV is experimenting with new formats to tell the story of our founders and their diverse backgrounds. Today, we are publishing two podcasts with a pair of multi-time CRV entrepreneurs whose personal immigrant stories go to the heart of the…
I created a new definition for roller coaster. Yeah, it’s me.
Looking back at last one month I conclude that customer is never at the centre of customer care. Period. My dear country — we have a long way to go!
Alice: Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? The Cheshire Cat: That…
The essential problem is reduction of noise. As a number of people have noted network size results in memification of transmissions reducing information to a series of stylized ‘hat tips’. Increased frequency and bandwidth begins to recapture and enhance the original promise of shared experience and enriched meaning but noise is a direct result of of…
In the past 10 years, we have seen a tremendous amount of new start-up raised…
Android Taipei是一個長久以來幾個新創公司共同舉辦的活動，在新創公司最美好的事情就是一直都在學習吸收新的知識，每個月的的最後一個禮拜都會有不同的工程師將自己喜歡的code或是研發出來與最新趨勢做連結，將新知分享給各個不同領域的工程師。
by Greg Topel
Hindsight is always 20/20 when it comes to successful ideas.
We’re currently doing a redesign of our website and we’re working hard to nail down the copy first. We want to clearly define what we are going to say before starting work on the design. The visual design is how we present our ideas, and we want to start with the foundation of a strong message.
Basically this is the recognition by the CEO that happiness of the employees matters and that taking care of it is just the easiest and fastest way to massively increase the profit and efficiency of the company.
What’s important in a start-up?
When it comes to scaling up and acquiring customers, letting your customers do it for you is by far the most popular way to do it.
Josh Elman, a Greylock Ventures partner with real scaling experience (Twitter, LinkedIn…
There have been a number of changes in the past few months and for those of you who haven’t heard, our team has more than doubled…
Home secretary Amber Rudd provoked outrage…
As investors, we are always careful to evaluate each opportunity by its own merits. Every company…
On Wednesday October 10th, SuperCharger — a renowned Hong Kong-based Fintech Accelerator embarked on their first move towards Vietnam to conduct private meetings and networking with Fintech Startups in Vietnam in their regional Roadshow.
By Satish Dharmaraj
Reno’s Friday Nugget
If you eat less and exercise more you will be healthy and if you spend less and invest more you will be wealthy. Also, avoid debt. You must dig a well before you fetch water from it and you should earn money before you can spend it. In the olden days slave owners bought slaves for money. Today, free men…
What are the first words that come to mind when you hear: venture capital, start-up…
Your pricing can determine the success or failure of your business. The short answer to how much to charge…
Across many industries, there’s are frictions and bureaucratic hurdles put in place that make it expensive for you as an individual to exercise your rights and privileges in a compliant way.
Before you read my article, I want you to understand WHY I wrote this. One of the goals of MilValChal is to learn, share what you learned, and mentor others. I hope that this will help others better understand the challenge, and find their own success through…
Pre: This article begins with both the question and the answer.
What makes us human?
Hiring out a bar and dishing out some free drinks tokens isn’t the only way to meet new people and chat. At Sanctus…
Software is a funny business. The industry uses quite a lot of terminology from traditional manufacturing. You’ll often here us talking…
by Allison Gauss
Each week Parabol shares its progress in a “Friday Ship”. Follow along as our young software company grows and evolves, by subscribing here.
Bertani tak bisa lepas dari cahaya, dan begitulah pertanian Sleman yang tak bisa berkembang tanpa Suryo.
Top down organisations don’t work. Management is broken. Profit is not the only reason for a company to exist…
When it comes time to store items into a storage unit, there are a couple of things you can do to make storage a considerable measure easier for you. For the most part, most individuals simply need to snatch everything they will put in a storage unit and toss it in there…
Have you ever wondered how content gets on the web? I’m not talking about making a…
Author: Marienne Caro, Sr. Marketing Manager, Qualcomm Ventures
Back in 2011, Qualcomm Ventures identified image processing and recognition as an important, upcoming technology that…
I saw a product featured on the PH add-in for Chrome recently called Startup Patterns. Startup Patterns provides “bite-sized startup lessons.”
As someone who’s immersed in the world of tech, having to eternally jump from NYC to LA to SF year round, I always forget that I’m shrouded inside a bubble. We speak our own language and we forget anyone exists outside our little…
There is one thing that I learned within the first year of my adult working life that has stuck with me and I go back to and remind myself of constantly. First some quick backstory…
Cela fait un bon moment que j’ai envie d’écrire quelques mots sur l’entrepreneuriat. Et je vais commencer par là. L’envie. Des mots doux sur mon choix de choisir l’entrepreneuriat au salariat.
Before I founded co-hire with Ben, I had read all the classic business books, hundreds of online articles and met a load of high profile CEO’s. I wanted to work out what the day to day of a founder should be. 4 months in … I release there…
GREAT list and awesome resource to bookmark and share! I’m excited to see some Tech Ladies on there (Amy, Gesche, Sage, and Natalie are all members of our group). ❤ this as a resource and I will share it with the Tech Ladies community. Thanks, Allison!
ps- If you’re interested in joining us → www.hiretechladies.com/join
14 years ago I read the first book of the Wheel of Time. It changed my life forever. I knew after reading that book that I wanted to become a writer. It was my calling in life.
Claimed “The rising star of Asia”, Philippines is a multi-cultural country in the Southeast Asian with endless pristine beaches, over 7000 islands and booming tourism industry…
By Brooke Southall
AssetMark grew from $21 billion of AUM to $29 billion but PE firms made quick 300% return
Por Kathleen Elkins, de CNBC
O número de horas de um dia é limitado. Mesmo assim, algumas pessoas parecem conseguir fazer mais nas 24 horas que têm dos que outras.
It’s 1:00am and I’m staring at a white screen. Spacemen 3 is playing on repeat “for inspiration” but I chalk it up to superstition, anything to give myself an edge.
When raising capital for your business, you as the CEO play the essential role. Talking to…
Do you ever wake up feeling something great is going to happen to you during the day? That’s the feeling I had last Wednesday morning. I knew the Alchemist accelerator results were due the night before. Although I knew we had a chance, I wasn’t overly confident…
The sport of skateboarding started in coastal and southern california doing basic tricks on homemade boards to the strict modern competitions that we have today. The change has not just ocurred in the riders but also the rides going from plywood boards with wood/clay wheels to fishtail boards to the…
Questo breve post nasce dalla partecipazione al workshop organizzato in data odierna da PoliHub sul tema del funding in Italia, che ha visto come protagonisti Focus Futuro (Antonio Assereto e Paolo Vacchino) e Alberto Dalmasso, Founder e…
“What do accelerators do and are they effective” is a tough question to answer. The best ones are continuously (and quietly) iterating on their model as the funding environment changes along with their cohorts. When…
Deals can be difficult. Whether you’re exiting, recapitalizing, going public, or making an acquisition, it can be…
A while back I wrote a piece about e-commerce as a whole in Nigeria. As part of the article I touched a bit on the challenges of running an e-commerce business in Nigeria. That article got a bit of attention online so I decided to do a…
Arizona State University President Michael Crow helped kick-off today’s #RiseOfRest innovation and entrepreneurship conversations with Steve Case in Phoenix, during the last stop of 2016 “Rise of Rest” tour.
Thanks to everyone who came to our stand to see our low-cost Demand Response demonstration last week.
The Silicon Valley fever has spread all across the world, apparently. Everywhere startup companies have…
Hace años, cuando me sentaba en el salón de mi antiguo piso, odiaba esos momentos de algunas tardes en las que no tenía nada que hacer. Ya había hecho los deberes, había estado leyendo bastante, había jugado con mis playmobil y a veces, había ido a casa de mi vecino. En esos…
What a week to be alive. Big brands and big artists all had some fun on the Product…
Salespeople make the world go round.
Page 3- Not getting up, is the greatest failure after falling. But what attitude do I carry after falling
He ran from the class, after the teacher told him that he cant do anything in life. He didn't go to school after that. While running, he tripped on a stone…and then…
Although I was fortunate that my previous employer supported flexible working, I still spent the…
People in this over-hyped entrepreneur society have ZERO patience and really have all the wrong reasons for going into business for themselves.This morning after going through my FB feed and watching so many so called entrepreneurs desperately grabbing at straws I felt that I really…
Sagar Informatics Pvt. Ltd. draws its strength from 15 years of experience in handling the ever changing IT scenario, with strong customer relationships, with ability to provide the cutting edge technology at best-value-for-money and on top of…
Growing up I was the kid who followed the rules. I didn’t get into many fights, I prayed before every meal, I…
First published on September 4, 2016 in Philosophies/Start up by leipglo.com
Over the past two years, I have been part of different groups that you could describe as startups. The self-exploiting outsourced R&D departments of…
Worst Customer Service Experience EVER!!
DO NOT BUY FROM EMPORIUM!! ON SEP 6, I placed an order online for items. I agreed to their down payment $36.41, I agreed to the withdrawal monthly of my money $153.67directly out of my account each month for 1 year until items paid off. I was advised it would take 3–5 days to ship. I…
Londres, Cascais e Stockholm são os próximo destinos do HandsOn Startup Tour, competição de empresas inovadoras que acontece na Europa.
What this publication is about and what to expect
Hello everyone! Thanks for dropping by my “Life in Startup” on Medium.
Before you start reading the stories on this publication, let me give you a little bit of context about why I am writing…
Universities should not be overlooked and that research grants could be a way of raising…
GDS has become something of a hot topic over recent weeks. This is unusual for technology with roots…
讀《自創思維：人生是永遠的測試版，瞬息萬變世界的新工作態度》
You win some, you lose some. And, in most cases, you can do so doubly.
October 7, 2016 Instant Messaging
Really intense LED flashlights are currently fairly widespread after light…
MailChimp is one of the most popular email marketing solutions out there, loved by 12 million subscribers and on target to achieve $400 million revenues in 2016 with 550 people. If you are new to marketing, I would…
The 30th annual GWA conference is over and Bisner is leaving Las Vegas the head filled with new opportunities, new people met, and a deeper understanding of what coworking and coworkers are looking for! At Bisner, we believe that this quest never…
Wow! This resonated with me in more ways than I can explain. It’s easier now than it was in the beginning, but boy can I relate to EVERYTHING you wrote! I think it’s so important for entrepreneurs to share these experiences with one another. We need to know that we are not the only ones feeling these things, facing these challenges and experiencing…
Data, what other industries find to figure out what’s right and what the software industry uses to…
I hope to be learning all of my life. Why? Stagnation is one of my biggest fears. On the other hand, growth is one of my…
How a Lowe’s Home Improvement employee’s actions were shocking.
With the guitar chops of a flamenco-style virtuoso and the heart of a folk singer, Ben Phan is one singer-songwriter…
This week I was inspired by a medium post that David Heinemeier Hansson recently wrote. If you don’t know @DHH, he is the creator of Ruby on Rails and Founder & CTO at Basecamp, formerly 37signals). As I used to…
The first month at a new job is a crucial period. Here are seven tips for making sure your first month is one of your best and sets the tone for your tenure with your new company.
I don’t know about you but I’m pretty sure this is my first time experiencing the world as a human. If there was…
From 1994 through 2013 I worked out of my home. Like many home based business owners, I prided myself on the fact that the walk from my bedroom to my office was a very short distance.
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When looking for a coworking space in NYC you have to keep several things in mind. First and foremost you need to think…
Increasing complexities in today’s business environment due to disruptive business practices has made it imperative to have access to sound legal advice before maneuvering any strategic decision. This has made the role of legal consultants all the more…
Goodbyes always hurt! And, an employee leaving your organization can hurt the bottom-line too. It has the potential to decrease the morale of other employees. So, retaining your employees is…
Once upon a time there was this idea. It was about building something so wonderful, that no one could…
I would like to introduce my concept of a transformative App, The WalkInJobSearch App. This…
The United States Artificial Sweetener Industry 2016 Market Research Report is a professional and in-depth study on the current state of the Artificial Sweetener industry.
What is Growth Hacking?
First…Growth Hacking, what is it? It’s not a technique, it’s not a secret strategy that some know and some don’t, it’s a person who uses rapid experimentation…
Azaad and Company is a well-established and Professionally managed law firm based in Jangpura Extension, Delhi, providing a spectrum of legal services and handling the litigations in Noida, Gurgaon, Faridabad and Delhi. Ours is a single window service to…
If overlooked, anger and rage can manifest in destructive ways. Incidents of school shootings are on the rise and a cause of concern for parents and authorities.
MY NAME IS SARAVANAN, I BORN AND BOUGHT UP IN BANGALORE, KARNATAKA, INDIA.
I WAS RUNNING A FINANCIAL BUSINESS WITH MY PARTNERS, THE BUSINESS WENT IN LOSS, MY PARTNERS CHEATED ME, AT THAT TIME ONE OF MY CLOSE FRIEND WAS WORKING IN MTURK PROJECT.
One of the challenges of building a great product management team is making sure you have the right combination of skills and experience. How do you make sure your team is the best and has the right set of skills ?
ANSWER: Simply put, yes.
Without brand guidance, making the right choices about how and what to communicate is fraught with complications, wasted time and money. If you want your company to stick in your consumer’s head — you need to consistently…
We are all Geeks and we cannot lie! But you may have already understood this. That’s why we decided to create The Science…
Carousel Shift iOS Game REVIEW
The United States Propionic Acid & Derivatives Industry 2016 Market Research Report is a professional and in-depth study on the current state of the Propionic Acid & Derivatives…
United States Public Relation Robot Market 2016 Industry Research Report
The United States Public Relation Robot Industry 2016 Market Research Report is a professional and in-depth…
Nowadays, people tend to be comfortable with the idea of making generally good products. These products are made to have a certain amount of qualities and functionalities. They can solve about…
A few years ago, I had the great experience of working as a member of a major University’s in-house news team. My teammates were veteran journalists from the WSJ, Associated Press, and CNN, and our group was run very much like a traditional…
Are MOOC courses more effective & give a better sense of learning Outcomes
Mooc courses have sprung up recently that there is a huge demand for people taking this courses . Also there are so many platforms offering courses that people are interested in — Like Coursera , EdX, Udemy , Canvas which is primarily based of Content…
