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One problem that gift cards present is that they aren’t as tip-friendly as credit cards, especially at restaurants. If you are paying with a credit card, here’s how a typical transaction works:
What is copyright?
In 2016, drones have become affordable and simple to fly. You might already own one yourself that you’ve used on the weekend, and you might have seen one used at work for inspecting a roof, taking an aerial photo or even flying laps to…
A quick search at job listings for Executive Assistants typically throws me into a fit of rage. Listings which dare to print salaries of $40–50K in an insanely expensive market like San Francisco and requiring 0–2 years previous experience are the ones that…
How was that summer internship? We asked rising MBA2s about their experiences, at businesses from big players — Nike, Google, a Big Three auto maker — to one-person startups. Some felt a warm engagement, others a veneer of politeness concealing a cold indifference. Autonomy, much prized…
It’s been a while since a brand new appliance made it’s way into your life and changed the way you lived in your home.
This is not written from years of experience. It is a collection of notes from discussions and thoughts over the past months and part of my effort to make sense of the topic. I would like to thank @justvideesha, @drosskamp, @simonschmincke and @benediktherles for the…
Artificial Intelligence, what a concept!
Today, I can search through the entirety of human knowledge in less than one second. Can you search the entirety of the knowledge your company has created?
I heard that Uber can launch a new city in 2 days. That’s the level of effeciency we are looking to reach at YouShould…
By this point, we’re all acutely aware that the tech industry has a problem with diversity. The average startup employee is a straight cisgender (cis) white man — and that’s a problem not only for your company, but for your product as…
I have long been a fan of AngelList, an innovative online platform for startup funding and recruiting. I…
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As the mother of two small children, and the founding engineering manager of the Chrome Developer Relations team at Google, I’ve led a busy…
One of these tactics tripled a team’s scheduled demos and doubled their show-up rate.
Finding a technology that cuts the time to develop something in half is one of the best feelings…
“So much of strong…
Every time you hear someone say those words, you either subconsciously frown, or perk up and bombard the poor guy with questions.
And sometimes if you’re the enthusiastic young man that you are, you also decide the poor guy needs a reality check and go…
Great companies can come from anywhere. Niklas Zennström, founder of Skype, Kazaa, Atomico Ventures.
Most of the capital today is still deployed in the world’s few largest hubs: Silicon Valley (40%) and China…
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After 2015 came the turning point where the number of messaging app users surpassed…
1.Check whether your company has acquired any property subject to registration charges.
2.For this Topic too, the word “charge” should be understood in the same manner as it should be…
Clint (eic of beehive startups) and I were talking on Twitter. I said I felt like Beehive Startups wasn’t doing it’s part to help entrepreneurs, and felt instead like it was posting mostly conferences, funding announcements, and other ‘inbound’ stories that are markedly…
Prioritize. Have strong opinions, weakly held. Plug the gaps. Launch and iterate. Know the user. People > products. Create team culture. Always overcommunicate. Work with people whose strengths and weaknesses complement your own. Take good notes. Your calendar is sacred…
Electronics Wholesale is an electronics dealer specializing in tablets and many other newly trending items including Apple, Samsung, Canon, and other popular brands. They have been selling on Tophatter since April 2015.
In July 2013 I decided to launch a one day workshop, called AppJamming, to teach…
I am one among that group. I worked for 9 years.
The fact is that PM roles are not that numerous ( except at Workday ). The numbers tell us that. There are many developers per single PM. The odds are…
DGI投資先のEstimote（エスティモート）がJapan IT Weekに参加するため短期間ですが 10/24〜10/26に東京へ来ます。Esimoteを使ってプロダクト開発をしてみたいなどあれば、お気軽にお問い合わせください。
Estimoteはビーコン技術を用い屋内の人の動きやモノ動きを把握し、導線改善等に活かすことが出来る技術を提供しています。また、エンジニアがこれらの機能を開発する環境を簡易化するためのSDK…
Happiness.
Learn from me.
This super simple strategy is easy to follow along with, and will help anyone find their magic bullet, their shortcut to hitting their goals and achieving their dreams in no time…
Having worked at Uber for more than a year, I’m frequently asked such things as what I liked about Uber, or how has Uber become so successful, and what key things did you learn from Uber? There are many people better suited to answer these questions, but nevertheless, I…
The first thing my summer internship at flytedesk taught me about running The Rambler? That I was doing it wrong.
Are you sure you have Product Market Fit?
Product market fit (or ‘PMF’) is one of those terms in the tech world that is constantly talked about and written about. Sometimes when a term becomes so universal it loses its impact. We stop thinking about exactly what it means and what we should do about it. I think there is a…
For most startups, fundraising is a complicated and unpleasant task. The…
tl;dr: We’re hiring an Entrepreneur in Residence for the next Ignite Manchester…
Today, we are delighted to announce our latest developments taking place in the UK! QRATES has been accepted to participate in the official music-tech startup incubation program of the world famous recording studio in London, Abbey Road Studios.
What do Sailing, Sex and Software Development have in common? Two things. First: You can read…
As a small business grows, at some point it makes the switch from selling paper, hand-written, gift certificates to plastic gift cards. This is typically done through the businesses’ point of sale (POS). Plastic gift cards are a service…
In the previous post I introduced the Lean Startup Mentality and why it is so important. This time…
If you graduated from the University of Abuja at least 10 years ago, your certificate is probably ready. However, there just isn’t enough information available on the collection process prior to visiting the campus, which is…
The competition game between traditional companies is fierce but fair. Each player respects the others. Sometimes you win the battle, sometimes you lose it, just like in a chess game. Then suddenly, a new player enters the game. Quite young, acting a bit like a rascal…
Good news everyone! My health insurance is dropping us as they are dropping from the marketplace in December! Yay!! Seriously. Really. Hooray. Um. This is good right? This is what we wanted isn’t it?
It’s been a fantastic few weeks for some of 1776’s great member companies!
CommonLit, a tech non-profit based in Washington, D.C., scored a $3.9 million grant from the Department of Education that will allow CommonLit to further…
I was recently invited to a conference by one of the world’s largest tech companies, also consistently listed as one of the best companies to work for. Needless to say, it was a grand event with about 500…
We are excited to announce the official pre-launch of APEX Ventures. Our team has been working hard to make it happen.
Our new homepage is now rolled out and you can find information on our investment strategy, philosophy and the team behind APEX Ventures at…
Venture funding has moved from serious headwinds for most, to a becalmed sea with occasional bursts of wind for a few. Here’s what I’m seeing:
Venture/Last 18m — public markets shut down, late stage investors abandoned ship and venture…
Thinking about selling or growing your business can be overwhelming. This infographic covers the basics of selling, raising capital, and making an acquisition.
Scaling a startup is tough, and the challenges get even more complicated as you grow your company beyond your home country.
Forming Partnerships, or Strategic Alliances, is one of the key elements that make up the business development function in technology companies. I believe that alliances are underutilized in many ways. Conceived and executed properly, alliances can greatly…
Mobile fan engagement technology company Ballr have selected realtime messaging provider Ably to deliver a new level of fan engagement to sport fans all over…
Today it’s official. We’re launching our Professional edition, the first of the three…
If you’re a software engineer you’re used to people evaluating you. As a hacker you’ve realized that there seems to be no…
Yesterday I was fortunate enough to participate in the Dallas ISD Principal for a Day…
You’ve had an app in market for a while, have tried various marketing tactics, and have seen downloads and users grow. To maintain your growth, you need to assess your results, identify what’s working, and create a plan that builds on your strengths. I’ll show you…
6 октября побывали на финале конкурса #GoTech (ex #WebReady).
Erin Lynn Young is the Founder and User Experience Architect of Slide UX, an Austin-based consultancy that helps product teams and marketers create digital products that are useful, usable, good-looking, and optimized. Slide UX now employs a…
On November 2nd, four months of rigorous startup acceleration will be on display at the MassChallenge Awards. Here are five reasons you should join MassChallenge and the broader innovation community to celebrate the world’s most…
Raising Venture Capital is grueling. Even the nicest investors can’t help but convey that you’re just 1 in a series of entrepreneurs they meet every day. And being told no over and over again is soul crushing.
Hi Steve,
I was pulled in to read your chapter ‘America Disrupted’ from a Medium email that glaringly posted ‘Help Edit my Book’. Irresistible!
You stated that you hoped to find out ‘what new information has surfaced?’ and ‘what insights could be…
Today as I was biking in the California sunshine between two buildings at Facebook, I was again struck by how…
The light at the end of the tunnel is typically referred to as a good thing. Most people probably…
A concern expressed by potential clients interested in learning more about our ecommerce software is fraud; especially when it comes to printed or plastic gift cards. It’s a valid concern, and one that we take very seriously at InstaGift…
Over the last half a decade, e-commerce has boomed, creating a market scenario…
For the second year in a row, I had the unique opportunity to capture South Summit in Madrid, Spain.
“Talk to your users” is pretty standard advice for startups of almost any size¹. Having heard this from many startup elders, I was clear on the why but not on the how. A few hundred user interviews later and I think I have a better understanding of the process. I found that the goal isn’t…
We’ve come to realize that there are a lots of myths and misunderstanding regarding what growth hacking is and is not. In this blog post we will try to address some of the myths and misconceptions going around. We’ll paint a clearer, more objective…
On my first day reading “Why I’m Leaving” medium posts, I thought — wow. These are truly…
Last week, the behemoth tech conference known as Dreamforce happened in San Francisco and theBoardlist was there…
La especulación de los que juegan a ser inversionistas, el mercado de pasarela q actualmente existe y q enaltece y llena de felicitaciones más al q gana un paseo a sillicon o al q obtiene mas fondeos públicos o privados, que al q consigue clientes o administra su empresa, por que eso último no se debe hacer. La necesidad de crear un monstruo…
In the last twenty years, the world’s standard has grown faster more than ever alongside with the desire for knowledge on an increase. It’s so obvious seeing a complete different atmosphere between countries and universities. In this era, information and…
Quotes are great if you know what to do with them. Often people see them on their…
Apart from health care and data analysis, artificial intelligence is now improving employee happiness and productivity.
This article was first published by Forbes Middle East on 4th October , 2016 and is written by Kamal Hassan, General Partner at TURN8.
Ram Shriram was an angel investor in Google, and is thought to have put in somewhere between $100,000 and $200,000, for which he…
I am CEO of dmsales.com sales intelligence and automation SAAS using big data and marketing automation to help the other to grow. Since I have started my project I am asking myself for my motivation. I fully support the autor, in one thing. There is alyways choice to make — life with family and kids or startup world — community. Thanks to social…
As we grow, we have to start thinking about different things. Once upon a time, we were able to hire on instinct. Bring someone…
-Ryan Campbell
As a developer, I talk to a lot of businesses who want to build a software…
Three startups raise almost $12 million in a busy funding week.
Erevena in partnership with The Anthemis Group and Innovate Finance
By Phone2Action VP of Engineering Chris Monnat
Seriously.
Put down your device, close the online magazine and pick up a book. Pause that episode of Stranger Things and…
This week was the Jewish Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur. It is a custom to look back in retrospect of the year that has ended and prepare one’s heart and state of mind towards a new and better year. So I first started writing about all the things I regret…
My vision for vrbtm.co
We’ve just deployed our first beta iteration at http://beta.vrbtm.co, which means I…
Parece uma boa ideia: envolver toda a sua equipe na maior parte das decisões do dia a dia. O preço do…
Conhecer quem você recebe é determinante para a gestão de um hostel, é o que te dá direção…
Startups are businesses. Why do some people seem to forget that? Especially the people running them.
Not just ordinary businesses, but business at the hardest point in any journey; the start; where every minute, every hour, every day is valuable and…
Forget the iPad Pro! Meet the CROSS 2 DESIGN Smart Table! Just as it sounds, this interesting marriage of two…
By Aaron Agius
I’m writing a series of articles on company culture and how it can affect the quality of your product and service…
Coworking has emerged as an alternative to the traditional office among…
Public Relations is all about creating and managing a favorable relation with your…
Accelerators should be the stuff dreams are made out of, both for entrepreneurs and for the investor. Rigorous selection process, access to great mentors and content and an even better network sound like everything an entrepreneur would want. Entrepreneurship can be a…
Em maio de 2016 comecei junto com um grupo muito massa de pessoas a VCore, uma StartUp focada em investimentos automatizados em BitCoin. De lá pra cá o nosso problema sempre foi a capacidade computacional para rodar nosso algoritmo.
I was in games for a while, working as a game producer, before I moved into this current product manager role.
In that amount of time, we got to ship quite a few games — and I still remember each time we were up for submission.
It started a while ago, when I realized that I do not enjoy working under…
Now that the dust has settled, it is time to reflect on the events of the past week. The week began with introductions…
Why Tom Brady Doesn’t belong in the Hall of Fame
When discussing potential future Hall of Famers, Tom Brady seems like a no-brainier first ballot HOF’er…
In May, 2014 I did something that will haunt me for the rest of my life. I completely disregarded ‘Andrea’s First Law of Gifting’, which states gift satisfaction is inversely proportional to the size of occasion. On a rainy Monday, with no particular…
by Paul McNabb
Notas de um ignorante pseudo intelectual (sem bases, nem fontes).
Most small and medium sized businesses offer gift certificates or gift cards, but very few give customers the ability to purchase one on their website available for instant electronic delivery. Unfortunately, they are missing out on a lot of sales for one…
Definitely not something most wives and mothers want to hear and No, I am not giving people an excuse to do a case study with this. I live in the Central Business District a nice quiet place that is right after a really bad place. The few months I have lived there…
If there was one phrase well repeated at last night’s Infiniti & Nest Ideas Demo Day Event— it was this: Wow, how far we have come. Ongoing conversations, from startups & mentors alike, circled around how evolutionary the Infiniti Accelerator 2.0…
In just under four weeks, voters will make a vital decision about the future of this country, and elect the 45th…
Startup founders are (or should be) busy people. They’re hustling to build a company, solve a problem, and sell a…
Ricardo Engelbert
August 31, 2014 was supposed to be the launch date for our web app. We worked on it for three months and the engineers went to town on the process on how we deliver this automated service. I asked my mom to check out the website and…
What is a startup? “A human institution designed to create new products and services under conditions of extreme uncertainty.” That is how Eric Ries defines a startup in his…
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polish version of a “There was an Idea.. and somewhere there was Me and my Startup”.
Muzyka która leciała w tle~ David Bowie “Starman” i “Heroes”
(Originally published on SaaStr — more on that here.)
Derek Andersen and Startup Grind are hosting me/SaaStr on November 1st in SOMA at Pivotal Labs at 875 Howard. Derek…
YES, YES, A MILLION TIMES YES. THANK YOU FOR WRITING THIS, MICHELLE.
Being an entrepreneur can pull you into a million different directions and require you to wear many…
Cheaper price, better service, and a brand recall, is it all that’s needed to rule a market niche? Uber (global) and others like Lyft (USA), Didi Chuxing (China), and Ola (India), are few examples of taxi aggregators which proved it right…
In September the ScreenCloud team rolled out our most requested feature yet — content zoning. We’ve also been talking a lot about our vision, designing great digital signage content and our favourite subject — food! Dig in below.
How many of you are members of a Facebook Group?
Mistakes Startups Make: Part Two
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…
I couldn’t agree more with the idea behind “Procrastination is Death Sentence”. I have put off an ebook, a podcast, and blogging in general for years! I don’t even want to mention the other stuff off my “to do” list that I haven’t touched yet.
It wasn’t until a few weeks ago when I was introduced to Gary Vaynerchuk that I…
You might at first find this post to be a bit pedestrian with its advice. But, if you look past the sub headers and take in my full explanation you will hopefully embrace some insight that is much deeper than…
Why not? You can fake it till you make it, till you actually have a routine and a habit that positively reinforces who you want to be…right…?
I think this works in some situations, like the doorway drill; every time you walk through a doorway pull your…
It’s with enormous pleasure that today we announce another great exit. This time it’s InnoGames — the global developer and publisher of online and browser free-to-play games to media giant MTG , in what we understand to be the most highly valued…
HQBeds is one ambitious project of two friends who knew programming but didn’t have a clue about how to run…
This will be a way to chart my own learning experiences learning product management. Granted, PM in itself is defined differently depending on the company and its needs, so what I will be learning and handling might vary as compared to other companies.
Você teve uma ideia, criou um MVP e chegou em uma etapa crítica: “Como eu vou vender meu produto/serviço?”
