In a month, OldGeekJobs.com has gone from a Google form-based MVP to a bona fide job site that’s made its first $1000. Here’s how I did it on my own for under $20.
Yes I admit it — I am not that all-star business analyst that you would probably want to read about to find out more about being a business analyst. If you are looking for that, look somewhere else. What I want to…
We despise you.
One common topic among Venture Capital professionals is dealflow management and the reality is that funds use a variety of tools to fit their own process flow:
via Muzli design inspiration
We knew we needed heaps of people spreading the word about Enda, it was the only way we were ever going to have a successful Kickstarter campaign. To give thanks, and encourage people to take the extra effort, we wanted to offer some rewards to…
This man. An insect that kills everyone it stings. Shattered dreams of YouTube fame. He felt no pain. He died immediately. For science.
“The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.”
If you’re a data-driven product manager, chances are you’ve long dreamed of being able to quantify the projected impact every feature will have on your users:
The first AI photo curation service offers some clues about how algorithms will…
Not all of us can talk to celebrities personally. But, thanks to Facebook Messenger bots, it’ll…
Each year as my business turns another year older, I go into a hyper-reflective phase on the previous year. Knowing fatality rates of startups are extremely high in the first 10 years, I feel humbled and grateful, and celebrate each…
Digging a hole in your pocket for all your beauty solutions is bound to take a toll on everyone living in the city. Between trying to save up and spending on grooming, the balance goes astray. But, fret not, now you can groom yourself without burning a hole in your pocket…
Today marks my 100th day @ ZargetHQ- A Chennai based startup which makes the CRO (Conversion rate optimization) tool for Websites, located near the famous Elliot’s beach.
Jen O’Byrne
From policewoman to receptionist to developer to Graduate Team Lead; this is the story of how I began my career in IT.
It’s been well-documented that deciding to take on a cofounder can be a fruitful choice, improving the business prospects for many entrepreneurs. However, if one does partner up, there is one intimidating hurdle that must be overcome: Figuring out how to split…
Last week I posted twice (here and here) after I gave a University lecture about raising capital, in repsonse to a…
This is the tenth and final post of my journey through Ironhack’s coding bootcamp. If you haven’t already, check out the first post to get up to speed.
“Stocktoberfest was like nothing I’ve attended before…
We are kicking off a semi-weekly series, in which we profile interesting people doing innovative work in legal services. The goal is to look behind the scenes — at how people are working on legal innovation, and what their vision of the near-future is.
Recently I sent out my usual update to the investors in Raygun. It was nice to have one of our investors tweet about the latest update:
スタートアップのスタートラインはまちまちです。数回起業したことのあるシリアルアントレプレナーもいれば、はじめての起業家もいます。
起業経験が成功を約束してくれるわけではないですが、あれば大きなアドバンテージになります。なければイチから自分で学ぶか、先達者にたくさん教えてもらわなければいけません。
Written by Jennifer Maerz, contributing editor of Lean Startup Co.
Product guru Laura Klein has the recipe for building things customers want. Her secret sauce is a combination of solving…
by Sam Blan and Mara Schmid
Em abril de 2015, resolvi pedir demissão e começar a empreender. Errei muito desde então, e faz tempo que quero compartilhar o que aprendi sobre networking.
If you interned this summer and it wasn’t at a startup, you willingly missed the…
It started back in 2011.
I was sitting in the Google office, just off Tottenham Court Road, getting a briefing on the upcoming changes to YouTube. Searching through a bunch of names and URLs, I registered chew.fm — a broader name for eatbass.com – the site I started…
Geeny thinks differently about IoT
(Originally published on SaaStr — more on that here.)
I’ve re-learned something doing the third SaaStr Annual this year.
We’re taking the next step to improve our apps for iOS and Android by making it easier to find Meetups…
These five pieces of advice are some of the take-aways of the live video AMA I conducted with Audrey Binkowski, partner and COO of Large Media, for the Hardware Club’s community.
My college football coach at Bentley University was a guy by the name of Peter Yetten. He coached there for nearly 30 years and was the most intense and competitive SOB around. He was well-respected, grizzled, successful, loyal, no-nonsense and didn’t hesitate to speak…
By Harris Gordon
Seorang professor MIT melempar candaan kepada para mahasiswa, “Salesman terhebat dalam sejarah” sepantasnya jatuh…
(A version of this post was also published on TechCrunch.)
Projet construit en utilisant la Méthode inspirée du GV style design sprint. Si vous ne connaissez pas encore…
THERE I SAID IT!
FROM THE DESK OF STRATIS CEO
This is the first of what we hope will be a regular stream of weekly updates from the Stratis team. Once again, I want to thank the community and investors for their continuous support, and the positive energy they bring to this endeavor. I…
Even if Trump’s chances for winning the presidency race are only over a dozen percent, supporting him could be still a valid investment opportunity.
Thiel as a startups investor is very comfortable with investing in questionable ventures…
Ibibo Group & MakeMyTrip, by many measures the top two online travel agencies in India, announced a merger — ending an expensive competitive pricing and discounting race.
The Refiners, S1 E2
Who will or won’t buy Twitter is the kind of story that drives the business press…
By Tommy D’antonio, Analyst at Fluent
October 5, 2016
Introduction:
Ian Mashiter is Director of Entrepreneurship Activities at Boston University Questrom School of Business, where he runs the BUzz lab. They run…
I work at a small company (often called a ‘startup’) that has two Engineers. One of them is the CTO, and one of them is me, aka the Lead Engineer. My title is a bit misleading because I don’t lead anyone. I got the…
Here at Plow we are starting to tell our points of view on the state of web content and social media in a…
Hacker Dojo 3.0 — The Rising of a New Generation
Hacker Dojo re-opens in a new location and a new perspective on co-working life.
Santa Clara, CA — October 24, 2016 — Hacker Dojo, the original hackerspace of the Silicon Valley has a new location and a new lease on life and opens its doors to the…
I’m thankful I get to run my own business and do what I love every day. Sure, not every day is full of…
In today’s world everyone has access to more information, facts, stats and content than we can possibly consume in a single lifetime, all available instantly at our fingertips. We lead our lives at an ever increasingly fast pace and our time is near permanently…
Running a startup, scaling it and achieving viability in the business is a hard problem. There are many landmines along the way, where a suboptimal choice can lead to insurmountable difficulties later on. Choosing the right Cloud Provider for your…
By Maggie Larson and Diana Wright, ISU Pappajohn Center for Entrepreneurship
This story is part of a series featuring each of the eight startups in the CYstarters summer cohort. Each team got the opportunity to focus on their startup or…
With the advent of the internet, staying connected is quicker and easier than ever before. Social media revolutionized the way that people communicate, but recent concerns about lack of privacy and the long-term effects of a permanent cyber footprint are driving some to ephemeral platforms like…
I was reading a while back about one of the many proposed tech acquisitions happening at any given time, a merger between two well known technology companies. Two very major technology companies, one making a comeback from bankruptcy and the other…
The Paranormal Life of an Entrepreneur
The Refiners, S1E2
There goes the 30 minutes of my life that I’ll never get back. — Said every meeting-goer ever!
One thing common to most work places is the collective dislike of meetings…
My co-founders and I decided to take a 2 week break from startups after 5 failures. I couldn’t take a break so I decided to write up an introspection of the past year and a bit.
On October 20, SheStarts is hosting an event as part of Women Entrepreneurs Boston Week about funding options for your business (there’s still time to register to attend the event, so join us). A stated…
The logistics industry in India is evolving rapidly and it has been the backbone of…
-By Anand Lunia and Shailesh Vikram Singh
In a world away from technology, Patanjali is the most interesting comeback of the Indian entrepreneur.
A series for aspiring entrepreneurs.
The Economic Innovation Group submitted the following comment on the proposed International Entrepreneur Rule with the Department of Homeland Security:
Forge’s mission has always been to make it easy for everyone to share their gameplay.
“Was ist der Sinn des Lebens?” — mein CTO, hatte eine besondere Technik entwickelt, das Packpapier seines Triple Cheeseburgers so zu falten, dass es eine perfekte, plane Unterlage auf dem Konferenztisch in unserem War Room, darstellte. Über dem Packpapier schwebte…
Stringify now supports Rainforest Automation’s EAGLE Energy Gateway. The EAGLE wirelessly…
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As we recently announced, we just closed a funding round of $2.6m, led by amazing, top-tier investors like Draper Associates, IQ Capital, and Thomson Reuters. All our previous angel investors as…
We are pleased to announce that David Krantz, former CEO of YP, has joined the Hirewire team as an investor and advisor.
I have worked in startups before and sadly, this is one of the harsh truth.
Especially those crazy crunch times just to ship something out and then work on it again the following week, it’s like a downward spiral leading to a black hole.
What is Skimlinks?
Skimlinks is a global e-commerce monetization and analytics technology start-up with offices in London and NYC. We work with over 1.5 million publisher websites (including Condé Nast, Hearst Magazines, NY Times) and 20,000 online retailers…
FoundHer blog series. Showcasing amazing female founders and sharing her story. As a female founder myself, I…
User Experience (UX) is an underrated part of business, whereas it is very important in all aspects. Most founders do design processes from the business perspective. They design processes by asking questions like, “how much are we going to make?” “can we cut costs by designing the…
“I read a lot, and put a lot of effort into understanding the real value of an NPS score, and eventually I had to conclude that…
How will self-driving cars affect us? Automation has been in the cockpit of airplanes for decades, how has it worked out for…
You’re a hypocrite who only sees her political views as the correct views.
The same was done at Reddit. A usual left-wing tactic for silencing others.
A lot of the questions we get asked are about the quality of our translations and the best type for each website. Beyond doubt, a professional translation is the most effective and will always give you the best…
Cultura Organizacional é um…
This is the story about Upside Down marketing and lessons marketers, sales and…
Discussing One Of The 3 key focuses of a CEO: Culture
We are proud to say we took part in the most recent edition of #AtlassianSummit as a Partner. We were able to attend some of the keynote talks on different topics. The sessions covered 7 different topics, which they called “Tracks”: Plan & Track, Build & Deploy…
By now, we have all heard the design cliches like “Less is more” and “Simple design is the best design”. In many cases, it is true. There are, however, in many cases, where a simple button can confuse users.
(and we’re hiring too!)
How things gonna be in SW Doha, a write up to encourage students and entrepreneurs.
Hello to all my fellow Startup enthusiasts,
It might’ve happened to a lot of us , “The Expact” thing?
Monday Oct. 10: Watching Belgium’s national soccer team win is nice, giving a presentation to Belgium’s opinion leaders in the healthy aging space is better. This Monday, I got the chance to do both, as a delegation of LifeTechValley’s crème de la crème was visiting the Brookdale Redwood City…
This week on the DIY Marketers blog, Glip product marketing manager Paul…
Collaborative Creation: Maker Spaces.
Maker Spaces are networks of connected individuals and communities that take manufacturing away from centralized companies and into their workshops…
As the title describes, this series of posts will be about building products through these three modes. This won’t be an exhaustive examination of each one, but rather looking at them…
Software development has followed certain rules in the past and present. The Hack Effect is a revolutionary process tool that optimizes every single one of the innovation indicators (Time; Quality; Price…
your 5 steps guide to have SOFA Budget for your project and get fucked in 2 months
A growing tribe of purpose-driven founders is changing the world, one startup at a time.
You should see all the “How to start a startup”-videos from the Startup Class by Sam Altman…
Throughout the course of my week, I come into contact with dozens of marketing solutions that propose to use quantitative approaches to deliver measurable results – lower costs-per-x, better conversion rates, higher LTVs. These are all well and good, and most services deliver on what they…
Writing a blog post right after a garage sale feels like writing a eulogy to trash. Nonetheless, here’s mine. A…
An evolving list of things I value when building a business:
In Today’s world everyone is busy with electronic gadgets, no one has the time to wish…
I’m in SF this week with the USV team — once a year we all come out here together, do a bunch of meetings and social events w our portfolio.
Yesterday struck me — and it’s amazing how much of a surprise this is to me, after doing this nearly 5 years — with just how exciting…
If you’re an artist, management group, label, or festival you may or may not have experience taking on investment. The good news is, there’s a plethora of resources to get you started.
Every week I interview two people pursuing their dreams. This is Mary Franzese’s story:
Traduzido e Localizado do texto original de Dave McLure disponível aqui.
Não pense que é "tudo ou nada". Comece pequeno, depois evolua, Domine e VENÇA.
Cela fait déjà un mois que nous sommes à San Francisco !
Buying event tickets is a quite an uncreative process these days. Sure — you can buy tickets online and print them at home. Big whoop. It’s 2016 for crying out loud. You can watch 4k movies, take a class on Neuroscience, or live-stream sporting events — all through the wonders of the internet. Nobody is…
Hay ideas que ayudan a avanzar e ideas que ayudan a avanzar mejor. Esta es la idea, literal, que plantea Bound4Blue, una startup española que está diseñando una vela plegable para buques que puede recortar en un 40% el combustible…
Asking for advice is a double-edged sword proposition at times. If the person providing…
How awkward is it when you come into a conversation and everyone’s laughing about some inside joke? Until you get some…
The demand for high quality user experience is growing and the number of UX tools available is growing with…
Ideation Stage
So maybe the question of this article is very basic to some but I am answering this because a lot of people still ask me, so what do you do exactly? Well you see, I work with startups.
Costs of creating hardware products is way higher than software. How to check whether your idea will be a great market success?
This is how we armed our Client with important insights and knowledge how to proceed with their project.
I definitely agree with this. And just like there are many ways to be a successful and happy person, I believe there are many valid ways to be a successful entrepreneur, too.
Not every entrepreneurial venture has to be a VC-funded, growth-oriented, midnight-oil-burning rocket ship. Those are the kind that get the most…
A+ Machine World inc is all about the commercial laundry and dry cleaning equipment distribution. This company offers best dry cleaning and laundry equipment in New York with hundreds of distributors located in many cities like North Carolina, Missouri, Massachusetts, Delaware, Georgia, Virginia…
Today I was reading in my medium app as usual and I browsed though the categories suggested by Medium and I was both…
Thank you for writing this, Jonathan. While one could argue that there’s a lot more that goes into good management than your manifesto outlines (I shamelessly point you to what I’ve written about “essential management” here on Medium: https://medium.com/better-management/introducing-a-model-of-management-7e5b547e83c6#.sypwokpzx), I agree 100% that…
Timeline
10/19 think about general ideas about the theme and sketching ideas
10/20 find people to join brainstorm session
10/21 organize time for meeting
Our culture is awesome! Culture defines us. Our culture separates our company from the pack…
If you ask your CMO or VP of Engineering what growth hacking means to them, they’ll both probably have different…
On October 1st we held our third annual StartupSlam event in Victoria, BC. The Sendwithus team, in partnership with Workday and the University of Victoria Computer Science Department, took over the Engineering and Computer Science building from 10 AM until 5:30 PM…
Like a rock star we are back for one ultimate call back.
Fuck You, You Soul Crushing Corporate World! http://bit.ly/2esOfh3
This past August, Mass Innovation Nights launched its 11thMIN FOODIE event in Somerville, Massachusetts. Bringing together ten food and food tech startups, the night was an opportunity for these new business to…
Recently, a developer friend shared this bit of insight. I can’t take credit for this, but I got their permission to share (after removing some things.) This is a great example of bridging the gap between business development and software development at a…
My client is an enterprise tech company gearing up to 10x their cloud database platform. They’re looking for a web dev wizard to accelerate and raise the bar of front-end engineering.
BUSINESS MARKETING
Do it right!
Marketing is everything a company does to acquire customers and maintain a relationship with them…
Types of network:
Broadcast networks
This network can only send out information (one-way). The value is equal to the number of receivers that each transmitter can catch, TV for example.
Precision Products Inc., aka PPI Parts, is a reliable company that is committed to fabricate and supply critical parts required by various hi-end machinery. The company has gained…
Aproveitando meu último post publicado, quando falei sobre 8 livros que considero fundamentais para…
Being a new player in the startup world = wtf dot ios dot com!
