GOLEAN? No this isn’t some blatant battlecry for going lean. It’s a mnemonic for a growth framework I created for my last book: Scaling Lean — one that draws heavily on lean startup principles and systems thinking:
I made a big mistake when deploying new features for Toby, the Chrome extension I've been working on. Here are some of the things I learned in the process and how to avoid the same mistakes in the future.
Which success factors are most impactful in your life and career?
Over the past few years, a lot of founder friends have asked me “should I hire a PM?”…
“Hey, would you like to solve this incredibly mathematical question so we can see if you’re not an idiot?”
“Sure!”
“All right, it seems as though you’re not an idiot. We’re going to schedule you for a 1 hour long technical interview…
During the last few years, there’s been a veritable explosion of technology-focused recruiting…
Hace algunos días tuve oportunidad de participar como juez en un programa de aceleración para emprendedores. La convocatoria generó cientos de aplicaciones, los organizadores hicieron una preselección, y ahora nos tocaba a nosotros elegir a las empresas — y sus…
When reviewing a job offer, there are certain questions every person who wants to do quality work…
This is not your usual shutting down lessons learnt bullshit!
We spoke at his apartment in Karlín, Prague.
Michal studied new media art…
Voilà… Ca y est, c’est officiel !
On October 8, I sent the following email, finally closing a long chapter of my life to date: Fetchnotes, the startup that defined my early 20’s.
Hi everyone,
Earlier this year, you probably received a pretty jarring email: a notice that…
Every week I sit down and plan out my schedule. I always go through an awful exercise of…
Or how religion can sneak up on you without you noticing
By MARTIN REZNY
I have happened to be so extremely busy with several of my special projects in the last few weeks that I haven’t had any time to write. I would therefore…
Thank you for the honesty. I’m creating a space/data startup in Houston, and I don’t think startups here suffer from all that SV insanity. I’m hoping to find developers and engineers that don’t want any of that SV nonsense.
I would never blow investor money on pointless bars at work, climbing walls, or insanely-expensive…
The recent surgical strikes carried out by the Indian Army dominates current…
No Divide’s Ryan Taylor explains how remote agencies combine the perks of being an employee with the freedom of freelancing
My city, San Francisco, is one of the world’s smartest and wealthiest cities. Its concrete…
In end of Semester 4, we got this mail forwarded to class Group.
So this particular blog post has been viral since morning. It reads out ‘Fuck you, Startup World’.
Silicon Valley Bank, along with Sheppard Mullin, recently co-hosted a panel of seasoned…
(Originally published on SaaStr — more on that here.)
There’s a little bit of death-by-a-hundred cuts that many SaaS companies box themselves into.
This is a self-serving post.
The purpose is really to codify the bulk of what I’ve learned after spending 4+ years (the equivalent of a bachelor’s degree) working in consumer-mobile…
Nearly all seed rounds we are a part of include angel investors. In some cases, there are also smaller checks from funds as well that are playing a support role as opposed to a lead role.
There are so many great startup ideas in the world. And many more great people with…
How SV.CO is fixing the education system, the startup way
This article is dedicated to every ambitious student out there who has the hunger to succeed and be a change maker.
Written by Jennifer Maerz, contributing editor of Lean Startup Co.
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I was fresh out of college when I began at Behance. During school, I did a handful of internships — at newspapers, magazines, and on film sets — that I thought would help me find a career I was passionate about. Instead, these…
Understanding the role of a Product Manager is more important than ever with the increasing pressure on businesses to not just deliver products, but to please their users with innovative products. Mind the Product…
When setting out to understand and recognize the range of roles required to bring about an innovation, I continued to pair my own personal criteria with the criteria of the assignment. With a solid understanding of my own…
If you are running a B2B SaaS company, there is a strong chance your product will need to…
In the tech industry, a lot of jobs have been created in the past decade; job titles such as app developer, data scientist, UX designer, cloud specialist or growth hacker didn’t exist before. Today, I want to share with you what exactly a growth hacker job description is because this…
I am excited about my new teaching side gig at the university I graduated from. I never thought I would ever…
It’s been A year and month or so since I moved from India to Silicon Valley . It’s been rollercoaster ride for sure. The transition from Bangalore to Bay area hasn’t been easier, here are the 5 thing I noticed or learnt
As a startup, video calls might not be such a big deal. Especially if you all work from one cubicle on the streets of Yaba or one dorm in the hostels of UNILAG. Why would you have the cause to do calls when you can just walk up to a member of your team and tell him how…
We have so many meetups going on these days. A meetup is simply where leaders from the same industry, but different organizations meet. They share their experiences and stories where others learn and contribute. It’s that simple!
In 2015, we found a nail to hammer. After furnishing the first leg of our adult lives with a mash-up of personal…
先週は、TV出演、イベント登壇と様々な機会をいただきました。
＜TV出演＞
Emily Forbes, Founder, Seenit on the successes and pitfalls of the agency/tech start-up relationship
Inovo conducted an analysis of Polish VC investment in the second quarter of 2016
Most of the National Capital Fund (KFK) funds ended or is near the end of their investment period. The…
Today Carmen speaks with Those’s other Director & Co-Founder, Jamie Wieck.
Kuhustle recently celebrated it’s 2 year anniversary this October, not without it’s challenges. There have been great projects and even greater lessons. We have seen a good chunk of issues and troubles and have taken the pragmatic approach of growing with the blows. As we…
The Importance of community
I’d like to ask you one question.
What would you think is the most important factor that determines success of a business?
I will even give you a hint. Think about what Airbnb, Amazon and EBay have in common.
Top 5 lessons from building a company in New York
Fuck you for this article.
Fun read, but still fuck you.
So I thought I would do something a little bit different (hence the title) and brainstorm with you. I look at the sales model as…
an excerpt from the upcoming book Hacking The Core
Starting a fashion label can be one of the most rewarding things you can do…but also the hardest. It requires dedication, blood (sometimes literally), sweat and passion. But no fret, we are here to help! Here are 5 tips…
For the past year or so I’ve been immersing myself in every type of material related…
Wow. This is hard.
Are you on Product Hunt? It’s quite cool, right? You get to learn about some of the awesome new products out there and you can vote for them! If you think about it…
Music in the background~ David Bowie “Starman” and “Heroes”
In the beginning, I want to point out, that this is the first time when I write a…
That was thorough.
While the razzle dazzle of the year’s biggest workplace technology conference was happening on the main level of Chicago’s mammoth McCormick Place convention center last week, I was…
I don’t like it and I think based on the searches I did to validate my idea while writing this—the internet makers community agrees with me.
Why hasn’t it been done already?
Unless one does not go through the logical and emotional journey of discovering this answer, you are almost always destined to regret going…
For most businesses, life becomes a lot easier when there are strong champions and advocates in the community. To gain initial buy-in for Auror, a crime prevention platform and network, we put a lot of effort into developing strong relationships with members of the police…
A response to the recent article ‘Fuck You Startup World’
A response to the recent Medium article by user shem…
Many of us work in corporate settings as managers, developers, doctors etc. That is the backbone of our job economy. I have spent most of my life in corporations and consulting with corporate clients.
As you run your feet become heavier and heavier, increasing the temptation to stop, walk & quit.
As someone who’s dabbled into running but never really found his feet ( I ❤ weights 🏋 ) it’s always been mentally challenging to simply get up…
Mistakes Startups Make: Part One
Top-ranked law firm, Lowenstein Sandler hosted a Mistakes Startups Make panel at Umbel’s office in Austin, TX, featuring panelists Jon Bassett, Kin Gill, Kathi Rawnsley, Steve Sachs, Valeska Pederson Hintz and myself…
You can laugh at everything but not with everyone. Bernard Werber…
Listen to the full episode on your favorite podcast app right here: iTunes / Overcast / SoundCloud /Stitcher/ RSS
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One of my favorite ATL startup people (who also named his blog after a pretty great REM song) threw out an old challenge — what’s on your iPhone home screen? I’ve always liked this for two reasons:
My client is a cloud database platform that’s growing fast and is on the lookout for database architects who can work with customers to resolve problems and design robust solutions. Professional services and solution engineers…
Family, welcome.
For too long our people have wandered the app stores without a home to truly call our own. We’ve come to change that, and offer a long-overdue refuge for the global cannabis audience.
With modern advancements in tech, for example with javascript, more and more developers are able to apply principles they are familiar with, throughout the rest of the stack. On Angel list alone, there are over 5400 startups currently looking for full-stack…
Around the same time last year I decided to spend my summer in the design hub the world, Copenhagen. I attended multiple…
As the concept of growth hacking continues to gain popularity, plenty of information is…
One of my daughters is at home sick. It’s lunch time. I’m eating a samosa and I make her a pb&j. I’m trying to be sympathetic to a sick kid. I ask myself, what would make her happy? I make an assumption that she would like NO crusts.
October 16, 2016: As the founder of a startup, you have 3 constituencies — your customers, your team, and your…
Spontaneously, we started a tradition of organizing a meetup in Novi Sad and then the next in Belgrade. This fall we continue this tradition, and we’re coming to Belgrade for our next AWS User Group Serbia meetup!
SYDNEY, October 26th 2015
It is clear that Australia needs to diversify its economy away from relying on mining and resources, scale the economic output of our relatively…
It’s safe to say at least some of the people we follow on social media are people we really would like to talk…
There’s honestly no better feeling than turning out for your first day “at work” when you begin working for yourself.
Помина летото, поминаа одморите, поминаа оние 10 или 15 дена кои ги чекаме цела година. Ќе бидам искрен, воопшто не ми се допаѓа начинот на кој ја делиме работата и уживањето. Како да е работата нужно зло за да ги добиеме тие 10тина дена вистински живот.
Tech startups tend to seek out other startups like birds seeking a flock. At the beginning, they are like all hatchlings — more or less the same as each other. But, this…
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At the Department of Commerce, we were thrilled to see our latest figures from the…
About 9 months ago, my friend Edaan Getzel and I started working on an idea: a subscription business delivering curated portable coloring books for adults. We wanted to learn how to run a small business and figured the coloring book trend sweeping the nation was a good wave to ride, despite the fact that it puzzled…
Most businesses fail. This truth may be a tough pill to swallow for aspiring entrepreneurs and existing business owners.
I hate brainstorms. Or thought showers. Or idea wangs. Or whatever we call the pointless activity of gathering every single person in the agency in a room for an hour of mindless chatter.
On October 7th, Virgil Security closed a $4 million Series A investment, led by…
The Turkic American Chamber of Commerce (TACC) — not to be confused with the Turkish American Chamber of Commerce and Industry — was founded two years ago in New York City, as a self-supporting, non-profit, umbrella organization by the Chambers of…
My last two newsletters have centered on the themes of pitching, applying, and putting yourself out…
Increased adoption of mechanized equipment in agricultural countries, such as India and China, has supplemented the market growth in Asia-Pacific region, which is expected to dominate the market throughout…
Q: What was the toughest hire you have made and do you mind sharing what the decision process like?
**A: Toughest hire so far that we’ve experienced was when we were assembling our technology team. Being a new, unproven tech startup comes with…
By Erin Sherbert
Capital isn’t always necessary to attract talent to great projects.
We’ve been together since 2015 and all of our team members are remote. From Florida to DC to the UK. We grind it out together working extra hours after our day jobs keeping…
A job inside the fashion industry sounds glamorous and lucrative. Have you ever a great idea is in to the fashion industry, but can believe you cannot keep it in check? There are plenty of different roles and positions that you can…
You don’t get a more classic professional love-hate story than PRs and journalists. On one…
E finalmente esse dia chegou, 10 de outubro de 2016, a data de lançamento da nossa nova plataforma para profissionais freelancers. Em uma contagem regressiva de 30 dias, roemos as unhas, tentamos encontrar todos os bugs possíveis, fizemos…
I’m on the train coming back from a tiring and inspiring 15-day full immersion in amazing opportunities that I’m excited to…
Like any other young man out there, i too want to have something great. I want…
This is a very interesting interview. I think our country is divided in many ways. Because of that, branding and marketing can be tricky. There are very intelligent and sophisticated consumers who walk into a store and only look at non-GMO and organic food. Then there is the shopper who doesn’t know what a GMO is, and only shops price. Companies like…
Saturday saw the UrbanThings team head west for Bristol API Hackathon 3. Hosted at Just Eat’s Bristol HQ, the…
Beginning to build out a design language.
Not sure what this is…
The meaning of the word entrepreneur has evolved. How entrepreneurship is defined now is drastically…
Retirement will be here before you know it, whether or not you are ready. Real estate, stocks, and a retirement account, are the list of most stable long term investments, backed by most all strategic planning advisories. Now that you know what to invest in the question…
I was invited to spend a weekend in upstate New York at a hunting and fishing camp. It’s quite possibly the…
We like people who are responsible. It all sounds very grown up.
The most common strategy all innovators use to create new industries is to take advantage of an emerging trend…
Who am i? What do i do for living? What kind of person i am?
Well maybe you don’t care, maybe you dont give a f*ck about me. But i’m gonna tell you anyway.
We have and continue to work with a bunch of startups supporting them on their marketing efforts, with specific attention to their digital marketing as well. This is the third in a series of posts with our thoughts, insights and observations on the same…
This rant reminds me of the scene in Jerry Maguire where Jay Mohr’s character congrats Cruise in the office for his “memo”, “Someone finally said it!”, of course moments before he loses his job! Regardless, so much of the culture you rant about is in our face hard today. The driving force behind it is the internet pervasively giving an equal voice of…
3 Uses For Your Job (Besides Money)
Your job is more useful than just cashing a paycheck. Here’s the real value behind waking up at 6am to punch a clock.
Coming up with an idea is only half the battle, wait forget that… it’s a small, matter of fact extremely small part to becoming the o so greatly deemed Entrepreneur that has been idealized in our generation. A little about me before continuing my…
Are people at work actually working? The labour market has everyone perplexed; despite extremely high levels of employment, growth itself is pretty stagnant. This is indicative of a clear productivity problem often referred to as ‘presenteeism’; the…
We have been birthed into a the collaboration economy.
Think on that for a second. It wasn’t your choice. You didn’t raise your hand. You should be upset.
When you open my app you see my screen on your screen, a live feed of my lines coming into being —…
by Evan Iannuzzi
Last week the team here at Twotone started with why.
We sat down for an entire day with Ashley Usiskin and dug into into why our company exists, how we go about our mission, and…
Getyourguide tried it first (probably) and it didn’t work but there’s increasing evidence, supported by Airbnb’s recent purchase of Trip4real that travellers might, finally, be.
Zumpout users who are interested in social work explored their interests by helping LSL (Lets Spread Love, Pune) in volunteering and sharing 15k food packets to underprivileged…
Cloud based property management software tools have fast emerged as the latest property management trends in the UK. According to the HMRC figures, there are almost 1.75 million…
Popular enthusiasm for commercializing science and technology has not been matched by a clear understanding of the structures, processes and mechanisms required to do this: there are many gaps between ‘conventional wisdom’ and the reality…
Oysters open completely when the moon is full; and when the crab sees one it throws a piece of stone or seaweed into…
Obviously JavaScript. (JavaScript everywhere™)
I mean CoffeeScript.
I mean ES2015.
I mean ES6.
I mean ES2016.
(I mean with Babel though.)
I mean TypeScript.
Although I have been busy the past couple weeks and have not been able to craft a more complete investment thesis, I do want to write about another investment opportunity I would take a good look at with my hypothetical VC fund. The space appeals to me more because of two…
In recent years, the explosion of rewards-based crowdfunding websites such as kickstarter.com and…
So I just started attending class at http://sfpc.io/They bill themselves as part art residency, part research, and part class. I’ll be writing about my journey on medium at https://medium.com/@jtoy_30122 and at my personal blog at http://jtoy.net/ In terms of what I want sfpc to be for…
Open source web development can feel like a musical number gone wrong. Sometimes there are too many dancers on the stage. Sometimes, an extra is still dancing during the dramatic pause. Ideally, after many rehearsals and finding the beat, everything is just…
Bien se nourrir est une difficulté majeure au quotidien qui impacte fortement notre qualité de vie. Alimentation et santé sont intrinsèquement liées…
Excellent @Carl! I am now on your fan list. Thank you for going beyond the rhetoric. When we willfully or unconsciously deny women their rightful stake as innovators we are denying the world the full potentiality of mankind.
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En el Departamento de Comercio, nos hizo muy felices cuando vimos las…
