Startup

I wasted 4 years of my life doing this

As a teenager, I was obsessed with the idea of having my own business.

7 Things Really Successful People Never Do

What differentiates those who are successful from those who are not? There are lots…

You Will Suck at Being the Boss…and 5 Other Hard Truths About Starting a Company

Code Briefing: My favorite stories from our first year on Medium

Making the most of Web Summit 2016

Lately, I’ve have been asked about my experiences and learnings from attending previous Web Summits and how to make the most of it. I’ve been asked so many times, that I decided to share with everyone my best tips.

TiketBot , ChatBot Pencari Tiket Pesawat.

TiketBot adalah ChatBot pertama yang dapat melayani konsumen secara langsung. TiketBot hanya didasari keinginan saya untuk menge-check tiket harga tiket pesawat airasia. Karena Itu, awal mula TiketBot hanya dapat mencari harga tiket pesawat untuk satu…

Notes from a wannabe tech ecosystem

A la mierda con la pasión

Yo solía estar muy enojado, la edad de la punzada me pegó con mucha fuerza. Como todo adolescente enojado con la…

A Fireside Chat, with Top Investors. N-house 16/17 Sem 1.

Our investment in Lingumi; making language learning child’s play

In the 1870s a Polish doctor created a language designed to be used globally between speakers of different languages. Zamenhof was living in Warsaw where he saw conflict between the Russian, Polish, German and Yiddish…

Second Act

I quit high school within a month of my first day as a freshman. I still attended, but participated at absolutely the most minimal level. My grades reflected this participation. High school wasn’t rewarding to me, and every day felt like I was unemotionally going through the movements of being a teenager. In…

F#$% You, Don’t Tell Me What To Do

7 signs of old wiring that is slowing the growth of your business…

#NeverThiel

A Secret Pledge for Founders

“Only in Silicon Valley” Greeting Cards — Part Two

WAVES Weekly No. 13

Development Update

Please Watch The Gap

Between the Train and the Platform

FounderCon, Welcome to Cincinnati

Having an event like FounderCon from Techstars in Cincinnati is a big deal. It’s the first time…

6 Ways You May Be Hiring The Wrong People For Your Startup

Early on in your startup journey, hiring…

Getting Money for your Business: Post NOC

So you finished the NUS NOC Programme. Armed with passion and an idea that you think addresses a significant problem in the world, how will you bring it to fruition?

Why Barcelona Is Turning Into An European Hub For Gaming Startups

Why Smart Cities Depend On Smart Parking

The term smart city has become quite popular the last years. The expression indicates an…

Q&A: Stephan Tual Former CCO of Ethereum and founder of Slock.it

From Frankl to Sinek: How to Reapply the Why

I’m a sucker for quotes. Amidst the flood of my Instagram feed, news articles…

Hacking “Lady Problems,” Breaking Barriers in Female Entrepreneurship

By Lisa Wang, Co-Founder, SheWorx

An Innovator’s Dilemma

Professor Clay Christensen at Harvard Business School is probably most well known for his book “The Innovator’s Dilemma”, so much so that The Economist named it as one of the six most important books about business ever written.

Woah.

PITTSBURGH WELCOMES ALL STAR CODE

“It was a little bit of kismet…” said our Founder & Executive Director Christina Lewis Halpern in…

Tools & Resources for Startups

All Resources and things that helped us for our startup.

Being a Startup and way…

“Teamwork makes the dream work.”

And “I hate it, but I love it.”

Gestão por Conexão na Prática

Estou de volta para trazer algumas ideias de como implementar a Gestão por Conexão na Prática! O intuito…

3 programas de TV que todo emprendedor debería ver

Bundesärztephilharmonie gegründet

Unter Schirmherrschaft Frau Prüfer-Storks und Herrn Montgomery

“Empowering Greatness in Unlikely Places” with The Somo Project

Introducing UW Blueprint’s first project

The Power of Niches and Ecosystems

You’ve probably heard this from many podcasts and Medium writers alike things about niches, such as:

“The riches is in the niches…”

“Find your niche…drill down further to make sure you are serving your audience…”

Start-ups turn Brazilian bureaucracy into Gold

With the high rate of internet penetration in Brazil…

From stagnation to exploration

I’ve been a homeless vagrant since July 2015. It’s definitely a decision that gives me the opportunity to explore without being held down by a dependence to one specific location.

“The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees…

How bad do you want it?

It’s really a simple question. Followed by a couple more simple questions, Is it really a hobby? is it a pet project…

How To Launch A Growth Company Without Investors

3 keys to bootstrap your startup into a growth company

Firmware Development : The Beast

To my pals in the software side of things →The code which runs directly on the hardware is called Firmware. It is written mostly in Embedded C or in some cases Assembly language. Recent tech advancements have allowed running JavaScript frameworks like Node.js on the…

How To Submit Your Update To Our Weekly Newsletter

A bad article about writing well.

“It’s a story, and you need to treat it that way”

That time I worked for a cult

Oh, did I say cult? My bad. What I meant to type was call center. Wait, no, I was right the first time.

Why Technical Founders Need to Conquer Customer Support

AWAYTOMARS #512 co-creations: IRENE MELERO — dress

Irene submitted a design of a dress, meant to be used daily. Therefore, it is very comfortable. The design she is presenting is inspired by a futuristic fantasy — it describes a dream, something unreal able to become real.

Think before you build

Not all web applications are same, So why the languages and framework you are using be the same ?

Why are you wasting your money on accounting and finance?

Finance and accounting are two topics that start-ups and MSMEs ignore — which is completely understandable — as there are no direct outputs or business improvement resulting from funding a quality finance and accounting practice…

The number one thing younger entrepreneurs forget to do

The importance of always following up.

World’s Premier Startup Program in Myanmar

Local Startup Community Phandeeyar has partnered with Founder Institute and launched the world’s premier startup programs for startup founders, inspired entrepreneurs and tech savvy individuals to pursue their dreams to the next level.

Foreign Acquisition of Canadian Mining Assets — Response to BNN Narrative

About four weeks ago was the ten-year anniversary of the sale of Inco to Vale CVRD — at the time the largest sale of strategic Canadian natural resource assets to a foreign buyer. BNN published a very…

How to Get Users to Test Your New App?

So, you’ve built a new app, showed it to a close group of your friends and coworkers, but…

The Power of Missionaries

Why do Missionaries win vs Mercenaries?

Missionary founders are about ideas and building what they see in their mind’s eye, their primary focus isn’t money even if that might end up being the result of building an iconic and impactful company.

4 Business Lessons They Don’t Teach You At School

What is the right way to start a Business?

Why going freelance before founding a startup could be a good idea

When I left my strategy consulting job at the end of last year to found a startup, I decided it was best not to dive straight in, but to spend some time contracting first. My founder friends gave me a hard time back…

What makes a good team culture?

What is a ‘good’ team culture anyway? And how do you make it?

The Australian workforce is changing. We are moving away from our manufacturing roots to embrace more service oriented, project based work. Increasingly Australia is becoming a…

Expert Interview Series: Josh Goldstein of Underdog

358 — Fractal Nature — Not knowing (I)

If you have studied a little about finance you will find there are, broadly speaking, two main schools of thought regarding market analysis. On one hand, you have the fundamental analysts and on the other hand you have the technical analysts.

WW Maker Bytes — Issue 38

We are building amazing features and we want to highlight that work with our stakeholders, you! THANK YOU to our contributors for dedicating their free time to making tech a place where women can excel.

The 3 things you must do before you launch

You know, other than obtain an education and an iron will

Success is Dependent on One Skill Alone

Doesn’t matter whether conducting business or Special Operations, there are quite a number…

Two years of “what the fock are we doing?”

First, let me make a disclaimer: what you are about to read is not actually the…

WHAT IS EVIUS?

Evius is a web-based application that can help individuals, communities, or organization to make your own events. Festivals…

The secret to not knowing what to do next

And a formula for choosing what to do when it’s not clear

What do you think, on reflection, made you personally fail, looking at your defects? I’m curious about founders capacity to reflect and be truthful to themselves? Great article, thanks for sharing!

Earlier in the week when I saw the title I knew I wanted to save the post for weekend reading and very happy I did. A throwback to he 25th Hour rant scene when Norton blames all of NYC but himself…well done. From top to bottom of the start up world I’m at times left in states of complete confusion because of my own evolution of being a successful…

Account Receivable Best Practices — Get paid faster

Cash-flow difficulties are major problems faced by SMBs, because their customer take more time to clear the outstanding payments and customers owe a lot of money. This is dangerous for Small Businesses and Startups.

Can we actively change our future? Yes, but with renewed sense of wonder at secrets left to be discovered

Loans & International Project Funding Lease, Rent or Purchase Bank Instruments such as BG,MTN SBLC, DLC, Letters of Credit (L/C)

We are direct providers of bank financial instruments such as Bank Guarantees (BG), Standby Letters of Credit…

Which are best sites for buying medicines online in india?

There are couple of online sites which offer medicines online but the main important things to look for are

A — Pin codes serviceable

AWAYTOMARS #512 co-creations: IOANA FILIMON — blazer

Iaona submitted a design of a jacket that resembled AWAYTOMARS’ style. The edgy cut and asymmetry was received with great interest from our members and our team.

Year 1 insights: How to (not) set up a successful subscription based business

On the 1st Birthday of launching HoneyTreePost — The ‘stationery lovers club’ in the spirit of the sharing economy we are holding our hands up about our learnings! In this amazing world of…

It’s the Team or Nothing

That the team is everything in a startup, or any high risk organization for that matter, has been stated to such a…

From BAT to AT. What happened to Baidu?

Reshaping to TAB, ATB or perhaps, just AT.

For a while, the Chinese IT industry has been dominated by BAT: Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent. But as of October 14th, Baidu’s market capitalization is less than…

Convert CPEC to Multistream Economic Opportunity

The race for money

If your objective is only to have more and more money in your life, it doesn’t matter how much you earn. You’ll never be…

How I started writing for money

I wrote the very first text when I was 10. I was the first one that was not a home task and it was a…

The 5 Best Gadgets and New Tech of CES 2016

1. PARROT DICSO:

Media Streaming Site for Ilm Productions

So been running the platform for 2 years on social media. We have no idea how the…

The acceptance of proving the value of your company is vital. As founders with a vision we expect others to drink our Kool Aid. Without questions, right? They have more to say than investors most times.

We all believe we have the next best thing since the polio vaccine. If you do not have delusions of grandeur than you are…

How startups can use data to grow smarter

Tech investing isn’t what it used to be — even compared to six months ago.

A Note App To Replace Your Ziploc Bag

There are pieces of information I need regularly, and some that I need very infrequently–the latter has given me grief to no end. I don’t think I’m stupid, but my mind simply refuses to learn the esoteric options to linux commands and business processes that I…

Sluggish Corporations

I could go on about this topic for days….

Progression requires Opportunity.

A friend of mine, Charlie LaTurno, recently said this during an interview,

The end. 5.6 miles. 10/15/2016

We walked to an industrial strip of Palo Alto along highway 101. This is a part of town we normally never visits. There are…

Beards Have Peaked According to Google

‘Bat Autonomy’; towards more versatile sensories

“Is that the warehouse bat on the ceiling? It’s too…

Dale Carnegie on Software

“There is one all-important law of human conduct. If we obey that law, we shall almost never get into trouble. In fact, that law, if obeyed, will bring us countless friends and…

cut off soil mortgage clause without assuming legitimate costs, we have the solution

Free claim the invalidity of its clause floor and compensation of the overpaid , similar to interest. Our Clause Floor claim is 100% release . You never have to shell out any amount…

Employment in China’s tech industry

Despite murmurs of tumult and slowdown in the Chinese economy, the fact remains that China’s…

The road is always long and turns

After a lifetime of having ideas that have either been non starters or far too challenging because of lack of capital or connections I am finally closing in on launching my first startup. Strangely enough I am very creative and have no issues doing something from…

How did the idea of entrepreneurship become widely popular in the 21st century and its effects toward the society?

Even though there isn’t really any definite answer to this question, I believe that the idea revolving around becoming self- boss…

Week 6: Competitive Learnings

For this week, my group mates and I did our business model canvas(BMC) and researched which companies are…

On Having a Plan B

It is quintessential to western culture, that we admire entrepreneurs and innovators. Luckily, this is the case, as these…

What’s new??

Article is good but what’s new in above one. Further, What’s one thing SaaS startup should focus on when they are trying to indetify product/market fit or finding your initial revenues:-

I guess , it’s “ Are you solving good enough problem that can be articulated as must have to customer “

Week 6 of Creative Founder

Tips from the class this week

• When you are presenting, tell WHY BECAUSE and SO WHAT.

Why do you need to build a Small Business instead of a Startup?

I am sure you must be wondering at this point, how is a startup different from a small business, and are they not one and the same thing? Well, the answer is Yes and No, and here is why.

(46/100) Odstraňování pozdravů z emailů

Vyřizování emailů je velký žrout našeho pracovního času. Dost nás zaměstnává už jen to, že je musíme číst. A co teprve, když je potřeba na některé z nich odpovědět. Jeden můj kolega, který byl maily opravdu zahlcen, to řešil tím, že každé ráno v pondělí…

I’m Not An Expert…

I’m not an expert when it comes to online marketing but I want to be!

Whilst I largely agree, the strategy comes with its own set of risks. One should be prepared with contingencies when the giant shrugs (and believe me they all do). When I started building TruContacts, I relied heavily on Parse, the PaaS that Facebook acquired in 2013 for $78 million and decided to shut it in January 2016. I was on the verge of…

To Drop out or To Continue

In April, 2015 after gaining an admission to pursue a Master degree in Mechanical Engineering (Energy and Thermofluid Engineering Option) from the University of Port Harcourt, I was faced with an academic challenge in which we had to learn Software packages like MATLAB and…