After spending more than 1,000 hours writing and editing stories for our Medium publication, I’ve…
Diversity and inclusion are hard, especially in tech. Doing them right means agreeing on values…
We have a team lunch every Friday at Geckoboard. This usually means ordering in a takeaway from somewhere local, as well as some serious overeating.
Yesterday news broke that Peter Thiel had pledged $1.25MM to support Republican nominee…
Every year around this time I stop almost everything I do and focus on one thing, and one thing only…
For the fifth year in a row, we’re proud to work with Pacific Crest Securities, a…
This week we learn to create clothes with a new bug based bio-silk 50% stronger than any silk ever created. Harvest 17,000 tons of tomatoes created with only sun and seawater. Spectate new competition featuring cyborg athletes breaking the boundaries of sport…
If you’re interested in this analysis, I recommend also reading my overview of the ‘personal indoor farming’ opportunity.
It’s still early days, but here are a bunch of different solutions and products ‘cropping’ up in the…
For the most part, that definition is correct. The only alteration I would make is, you need to be a founder of a dot-com (and if you are hipster enough, dot-io) company to be considered a true entrepreneur these days. If your product is not a website and/or…
I’ve been an operator most of my life, predominantly focused on selling enterprise technologies. Most…
The hype train about entrepreneurship is at full speed these days.
“So my idea is an app…”
I just returned from my fifth Rise of the Rest Tour. And like those before it, this trip was fast-paced, exciting and…
(Medium : Article 1er)
“Tell me about your side…
We’ve all had our fair share of experiences with poor design or difficulty understanding how to use commonplace items…
While I’m confused as to why someone as smart as Peter Thiel would support Trump in any capacity, this piece oversimplifies some of his views to the point of misrepresentation. So here are Thiel’s own words on suffrage and politics generally (emphasis mine):
I had hoped my essay on the limits of politics would provoke…
Pritzker Group Venture Capital (PGVC) is looking to hire an Associate for our Chicago investment team!
The Associate position at PGVC is an exciting and unique opportunity for candidates to break into the world of Venture Capital. As an Associate, you will have a front seat to see the latest technology trends and emerging…
One of those cases I think back often from HBS is Compass Box Whiskey.
I have had a good balance of on-premise and remote jobs over the last four to five years. All my work experiences in…
Co-founder Marie Ekeland explains how this “venture capital mutant” works.
JOIN AN INTERNATIONAL STARTUP COMMUNITY BASED IN NEW CO-WORKING SPACE IN BRATISLAVA.
0100 Campus, an international co-working space based in Mlynska dolina in Bratislava, is soon opening its doors for all of you. Whether you are a solo entrepreneur or a team of engineers working on interesting project, we want you to take…
By Clarice Cho and Giselle Diaz
There’s a massive misconception that working at a startup is a great opportunity to learn new things…
By Chris Ronzio
By: asad ramzanali & Josh Sledge, CFSI
At Twitter we often do roadmapping in Confluence, Whiteboards and/or Google docs. This…
Almost 2 weeks ago, we opened-up a website to let people ring us up or send an email, if they needed to get a bus to move a small group of people in Lagos.
Google just unveiled its voice activated speaker powered by the Google assistant. Its a straight competition to…
Assuming that you already know the meaning behind HAMMALY, I want to utilize this platform to capture the branding behind the logo. This I believe, is probably a great way of defining who I am as a designer and co-founder of…
I’m obsessed with the business of food delivery. I find it befuddling. I’m in the middle of digging into the industry…
Yeni bir haftadan merhabalar,
Güncel paylaşımları Bir Tutam Girişim Twitter ve Facebook sayfalarından takip edebilir, aşağıdaki linkten de e-bülten’e abone olabilirsiniz. Ayrıca Bir Tutam Girişim Kaynak Listesine buradan ulaşabilirsiniz.
I’ve been doing Sales at Meddy for the past 5 months and I had never done a sales job before. Never. If anything, I was always representing a service or a product where people came to me — I didn’t have to go look for them or didn’t necessarily have…
Sometimes, I’m the biggest impediment to my own progress.
Was a fun read for sure, and I have to disagree with him on some points. I believe he’s missing the greater picture of the “Startup world”.
Many startups realize that they need 100 hours a week from their employees. How do you do this without breaking labor laws? Well, you make work as awesome as possible. Sure, this has…
Por: Martín Rabaglia
Are you a SaaS entrepreneur?
Last weekend I celebrated my ten year anniversary with my husband, Aaron! We started dating our senior year in high school and have been…
Sometimes founders are so heads down in their company, they rarely get a second to lift…
Ninety-five percent of deeptech* startups are looking for industrial partnerships for non-financial needs, but only half are succeeding in their efforts, according to research launched today by Hello Tomorrow and The Boston Consulting Group (BCG)…
Originally posted on Startland News — Jan 27, 2016
Nine years ago, Avalie was born. My first kiddo.
She had already had a number of procedures in the womb to address the cyst growing…
Startup é um jogo de exceções, desta forma, não basta ter uma boa preparação, plano e…
Visual Inertial Odometry
SORAを始めてから１年半、これまでずっとコワーキングスペースにいましたがついに自分たちだけのオフィスに移ることになりました。
これまでの１年間家賃ゼロでお世話になっていたTECH LAB PAAKが渋谷にあったおかげで、僕らもすっかり渋谷（主に公園通り側）が好きになりました。
Marty Cagan wrote an article titled “Why Women Make the Best Product Managers.” And a couple…
University: Western University
What can salespeople learn from the Wells Fargo scandal?
Yet I still do it.
Short Summary: Paradigm…
At Load Impact we build a tool that helps you understand and continuously keep track of your application’s performance at varying levels of traffic by simulating virtual users interacting with it.
Revvx Hardware Accelerator building the largest Consumer Electronics Show for India: India Gadgetz Expo Oct 14–16 2016
You’ve thought about starting something of your own one day. You’ve experienced a deep sense of frustration with the way things work today. You’ve talked to friends about their similar experiences and frustrations, and you’ve dreamt about how amazing…
Written by Jennifer Maerz, contributing editor of Lean Startup Co.
Once you join the COMMON Community, you become eligible for the COMMON Fundraising Program.
Over the summer of 2016, we worked with UBC Sauder intern Chris MacDonald to research the “Open Angel Portfolio” — all the companies that have presented at Open Angel since our first event in November 2014 during…
We’re stepping into the Lioness Time Machine to bring back our 2016/2017 series of how we made the Lioness Vibrator! The Lioness is available for purchase today here. Check…
The Power of Mission
A few days ago I came across an interesting documentary on Netflix called Chef’s Table. The first episode chronicles the story of…
Venture capital is a funny business in many ways. As an asset class it has negative returns on average. The top 10% firms get…
If you have ever taken a job as an independent contractor, chances are you were misclassified. Not to paint with too broad of a brush, but it seems as though this situation applies to a lot more of people than you may think. If you’re…
How often do you tell yourself these words?
They don’t create for the fame or the money.
“A true artist takes no…
Before reading what we discussed at our first quarterly retreat, you may want a quick primer on how we run our company, to…
I am starting as the Director of Engineering at Calendly this week. I am excited for this new opportunity and to not answer the first question for prospective dates with “I’m between gigs”. Calendly is an Atlanta-based startup founded in 2013 that is solving appointment scheduling. It is…
It’s become very apparent that not everyone is like me. Not everyone wants abs or cares about having an incredible physique, in fact most people don’t…
If you’re a regular reader of my blog you’ll know that I recently went on a bit of a…
This weekend was a pretty big deal.
“The future is already here — it’s just not very evenly distributed.”…
I published this post in October 2016 and still find it representative.
Building a product is the easy part. Growing a community of passionate people around it is truly much harder. Having a core group of users who join you on the startup journey through the highs and lows is what motivates the team to keep going.
Il y a pile-poil 4 ans je me suis lancé dans l’aventure entrepreneurial avec la création de ce qui…
Tim MillerGeneral Manager & Partner
Recently we moved into a new office in Zug. Conveniently located right next to Sports…
Entering my final year at Michigan State University, I’ve noticed most college students find something they absolutely love, and then a ton of other peripheral things they sort of like.
It’s the same everywhere.
I’m hiding in the corner of a Starbucks in Dupont Circle this morning when someone walks up to me.
Her: “Are you the same Paul Singh that’s been driving around in an Airstream? I met you when you came through Tulsa and parked your trailer in front of 36 Degrees North.”
The Drone Revolution is in its infancy.
Juris Page, a website building, online marketing, and SEO company for lawyers, has been acquired by UpTime…
Back in March, I said that Paul and I would be trying to make person-to-person money transfers easier in Barbados. Our plan was to start small, without any banking partners, and with very little software. We wanted to be middlemen, enabling transfers from one bank to another by balancing them out against…
Imagine a tribe, a tribe full of carnivores. And amongst this great, proud tribe of carnivores, you’re the only vegetarian.
I often get asked this question “should we consider applying to xyz”. Over the years we have seen an explosion of various programs all over the world. It all sort of started with the first batch of Ycombinator in Boston. Today accelerators are one of the options early stage companies can consider.
Start Tel Aviv is a global competition held by the Israeli Ministry of Foreign…
Putting things in order and organization rank high on a success ladder for any owner or manager (or any high position that you might be holding).
I once hired a candidate for my team and unbeknownst to me, my CEO was friends with the candidate’s CEO. My CEO had no idea I was hiring this candidate (he wouldn’t have been involved in hiring someone junior to my team) and the other CEO and I were not friends…
As we enter the 4th Industrial revolution aka the IoT revolution, there has been a spike of hardware startups rising, especially in India. Indians are not shying away from the hardware even when the popular word is…
We’ve made 23 seed stage tech investments to make cities better, safer and more fun. It’s early days, but even as we see public benefits it seems we can still target competitive investor returns. Today, our unrealized multiples…
By Brent Freeman on Startups.co
TL;DR: It’s possible to both make a difference and make a buck. Believing in the company cause is more than just words, however. It’s about embedding it at every level of the organization so…
I won’t bleat about my recent absence but will jump right back in as I mean to go on.
If you are an Indian or have traveled in India you will know how much business is…
From now on, I will be writing about my experience, thoughts and ideas, and best practices on product management discipline.
Topics I will focus on will include but not limited to Product Design, Product Strategy, Market Size Estimation, Go-To-Market, Product…
One night earlier this year my phone rang and woke me from a deep sleep. The phone call delivered chilling news: a friend of mine had committed suicide after a long struggle with a heroin addiction. He was doing so well with rehab. His…
Hey there, this is not very easy to fuck a corporate job……
Point 1. After joining when you feel you have no much time for spend your salary with your family and friends!
(A shorter version of this article was originally published by Economic Times as “Why VCs don’t make great entrepreneurs”)
Within my first month of turning a Venture Capital (VC) investor, I happened to meet a fellow entrepreneur-turned VC. His first words have stayed with me…
Dünya büyük bir hızla değişiyor, şüphesiz bu değişimin ilk adımı teknolojinin sınır tanımazlığı ve…
I’ve got to admit, I was VERY skeptical about hiring interns at my startup. We are a small team, and managing a bunch of college students who didn’t know how to write emails or work autonomously was scary. My…
There is no reason you should not talk about your dreams often, maybe even everyday, if that’s what it takes. Tell people about your aspirations and plans for your future, whether your dream is to start your own chain of lemonade stands or travel the world, what you care…
Diary entry one from Cambodia May 2015
This week I’ve been contemplating a new name… Because after I fixed last weeks distraction of a logo… Clearly I needed a new distraction.
Read: How to squeeze the most out of your day
I recently watched a clip from the 22nd Economic summit where the Minister of Budget (Nigeria) was asked a simple question…
How to Grow your Marriage when you’re BROKE
Firstly, I would want to clarify that I am by no means an expert on this subject, nor have I achieved the ‘Elon Musk’ level of awesome to wildly proclaim my startup experience. But since the past year, I have acquired some amount of learning through the rollercoaster…
NOTE: The images I used in the post are by Tom Fishburne @ marketoonsit.com, I would…
Motivation Monday #1
Ceux qui me connaissent savent que je suis un très grand fan de comics, et quelle ne fut pas ma joie et ma surprise lorsque Marvel /Netflix ont annoncé qu’ils allaient produire la série Luke Cage. Pour ceux qui ne le connaissent pas, Luke Cage est un…
Am sharing a few billion dollar ideas here. Before reading though, you need to sign an NDA
I also had the original concept of social networking but Geocities, then Friendster and finally MySpace raced me to it
My current goal is to create a SaaS platform…
A basketball referee almost gets lynched at a match in Brazil when his pea whistle breaks at a crucial point in a game. A real estate agent drops hot coffee over himself after the serviette wrapped around the cup by the barista slips off while he’s…
At Romulus Capital, we know that great companies aren’t built in a day.
How Africa is leading the silent power revolution
As I have a plan to migrate company’s core servers from AWS(Singapore) to GCP(Taiwan). I have to research a bit about inter-country bandwidth from Taiwan vs Singapore to other countries.
Of the many things that contribute to the success of a project, communication is the most important. While every project will differ in its requirements, team members, and plan, at the most basic level their goals should always be the same…
Victor joined Taxfyle this year. He previously worked for the IRS for six years and now has his own practice that focuses primarily on taxes.
“Even though I have my own practice now, I will say this about the IRS: my experience there was invaluable. With all the…
Originally posted for and on Crowdcube in June 2016 — see original blog post here.
Recently Twitter announced its $150m acquisition of Magic Pony, which has yet again put the…
Two big, pale feet were resting on the boardroom table. Look at them too closely and you might find some dirt on them.
These feet are Steve Job’s. Though he was on the board for Apple, he seldom showed up to the meetings. The first time he…
The Equidam Weekly is a curated collection of readings delivered weekly to bring you the most informative articles on growth companies, early stage funding and generally on how to build businesses in…
People will forget what you saidPeople will forget what you didBut people will never forget how you made them feel
I thought I was until I had a talk with my boyfriend a couple of days ago. He pointed out the fact that he could feel there was something…
Yesterday, Uber had a really unique opportunity to pitch top investors in NYC during an UberPool ride. From the hours of 11–2, in all five boroughs, you could get 7 minutes…
At Funderbeam, we recently published a report showing that globally, funding of startups had dropped more than 50%. One positive finding however, is that in the EMEA-region (mainly driven by western EU…
My wife likes to remind me, “you don’t fly to the moon alone.” And it’s true. You cannot mentally and…
Rethinking (experienced) Founder Salaries
Note: This article first appeared on LinkedIn.
I've spoken with founder colleagues and several early stage investors recently and there’s general consensus around how much a founder should take in terms of salary, commonly referred to as a “draw” from equity…
London, Cascais and Stockholm are the next stops on the HandsOn Startup Tour.
Entrepreneurship Series: What Happens When Your Startup Fails?
Yes, we’ve all heard stuff like “It’s not serious having a Startup and being a student…
Today, we are announcing Channel — a simple, secure, and private mobile messaging platform specifically built keeping the needs of businesses in mind. It’s a single platform that connects co-workers, customers, suppliers; and everyone that matters to a business.
This week our guest is Tiffany A. Donaldson, Esq.
Melinda is a 43 year old entrepreneur. She is from Detroit, Michigan and received her education there from elementary school to graduate school. These days, she has her own firm with her own practice out of Houston, Texas where she specializes in state taxes for…
Llevaba desde ayer dando vueltas a lo publicado de Marcos Vázquez sobre el scamming en el grupo de…
