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10 Marketplace KPIs That Matter

Marketplaces are incredibly powerful. They are taking every aspect of our economy by storm and changing how goods and services are discovered, priced and delivered. They work for everything from digital goods to food and lodging to getting a great massage at home! And once…

Stop Making Me Sign Up!

Installing a new app can be exciting. When you’ve found one that may be just what you need, opening it is like…

WhatsApp Analysis: Identifying User Pain Points and How It Can Be Solved

The 7 Best Books I’ve Ever Read About Writing

Writing has helped me to become better at thinking, speaking, and making…

How to pay less for therapy

Every single day, I speak with people who would love to go to therapy but worry about how they’ll pay for it.

We Just Blocked $2.5 million from @MTNCameroon ’s Bank Accounts — This is Why

It has just been a few days. Already, our bailiff, our lawyers are feeling the pressure. You see, as usual, MTN* portrays itself as the victim. I have heard the song so many times. “Crooked…

Why Liberal Arts Majors Make Great Product Managers

The Battle of Conversion Rates — User Generated Content vs Stock Photos

8 Apps That Will Make You (Less) Productive 😜

L’histoire d’une plateforme d’enchères inversées Swiss Made…

… comment nous avons créé une plateforme e-commerce à partir de rien :)

On First-Time VC Funds

And why LPs are paying more attention.

The family-friendly startup is possible. Here’s how you build one.

“How do you balance startup life with being a…

Introducing myself has never been this hard.

“Hi, I’m the founder of Artsicle. Well, the former founder. The founder of the former Artsicle. I’m Alex. I’m unemployed right now.”

After 5 years as a founder & CEO, my identity is so tangled up in my company I’m not sure…

10 Inspirational Quotes from Movies to Make Your Day Shine Bright!

The Most Memorable Hiring Stories, Part 1

All’s fair in love and war and…. Recruiting?

13 Companies You Should follow on Dribbble

Maybe you follow many designers on Dribbble but, how many companies do you follow? At…

Cerrando el episodio de Conekta

Fui el empleado número 3. Cuando entré al equipo me sentí cómo un…

The Next Phase of Network Effects — Hardware SaaS

組織づくりは「構造」「価値観」「関係性」の掛け合わせ

会社のフェーズが変化する中で、「組織化されて動く」ということについて考えることが多くなりました。…

What makes a really great startup CTO?

The day-to-day life of a Chief Technology Officer (CTO) in a startup is vastly different to…

Copart Founder Kicks Off National Roll Out of Takl in Dallas: A New On-Demand Home Service App

Willis Johnson Tackles New Venture By Linking Home Service Providers with Customers

Starting an In-House Incubator // Part 1

How did we launch Mito Studio?

Packing list for the ultimate team-building offsite ☀️

คิดไป Silicon Valley ตอนที่ 1:

โหมโรงความสนุกกำลังจะเริ่มต้น

ช่วง 19–23 กันยายน 2559 ที่ผ่านผมได้มีโอกาสเดินทางไปกับคณะผู้บริหารจากธนาคารทั่วโลก เยี่ยมชม พูดคุย ซักถามแลกเปลี่ยนกับทั้งคนไทยและคนต่างประเทศถึงเรื่องราวของดินแดนที่เกิดจากคำสองคำคือ Silicon และ…

Design Research Playlist

WeWork UX’s Sr. Design Researcher, Michele Marut, has curated an awesome YouTube playlist to introduce you to design research.

These are the videos included in the playlist:

The increasing centrality of SaaS players in e-commerce

Fire In The Valley: What I Learned From Three Trips To The San Francisco Bay Area

The 5 People Every Entrepreneur Should Take Advice From

You have to listen to feedback.

Why I’m joining Bharti Airtel

Some thinking behind my decision

First things first, the last four years at PayU India have been the best of my career. I joined the company as the first employee to start the business of PayUMoney (then PayUPaisa) when Gurjodh…

Why I made a blog about doing hard things

“No man’s good by accident. Virtue has to be learnt.” — Seneca

Some of us dream of Elyssium. We point to the moon and see it in arm’s reach. We quit our comfortable jobs to embark on a new venture, or catch a Greyhound bus to…

Why clones fail (or simply can’t win)

Leaders, followers and how countries like Greece will thrive

Product Market Purgatory

A number of years ago, I joined an early stage startup. We had some funding, but not too much. We had some…

How to find your purpose

David Hieatt on how purpose drives the work that you do

Cos’è Uno Startup Studio e Perché Serve Ai Founder Italiani

Conheça mais sobre intraempreendedorismo e saiba como desenvolvê-lo dentro do seu negócio

Why VCs need to write stuff … and what I’ll write about

It doesn’t make full sense to me because I feel like I should be spending this time doing my actual job instead : finding the best startups, investing in them (after having convinced my partners*… which is a big part of our job as…

Dear Start-up ecosystem, move over..

How enterprises made start-ups possible and how they will make them “obsolete” again.

SUPER START-UPS

How to Fit in at a Tech Startup

1. Always talk about churn and how you’re going to prevent churn. (I’m not quite sure what this means, but…

How A Small Fintech Startup Got to Trial Their Neural Network at ING

California Dreaming

Well, that was fast.

The 5 Most Important Questions you Can Ever Ask Yourself

What are my Passions?

365 days of being a Product Manager

A year ago I began my career as a full-fledged Product Manager. Being an engineer in training and…

Get Shift Done: Management

Five Ways BigCos Can Partner With Scrappy Startups

Ben Horowitz’s journey

“The Hard Thing About Hard Things” is not your typical business book. It is also not your cliche rags-to-riches story…

Trying to Change Things Too Quickly Often Does More Harm than Good

5 Things You Must Accept When…

I used to be on Elance before it merged with oDesk and became Upwork. I had a skewed negative experience with it and I discovered Fiverr. I was MUCH happier with them and turned away from Elance. This post has confirmed just how Mich of a hole this site has become. I’m sorry for your experience Shadi. The GOOD think about this is that there is a…

CTO, Taivo Tender

Funderbeamer exclusive bio

$1.65M Second Seed, Impact Health Steps on the Gas

The last 6 months have been very exciting for our team. We have taken the investment money from our initial funding in April 2016 ($1.3M Seed Equity) and fully obsessed on getting to know our customers. When I say obsessed, I really do mean…

Data is complex, but how we communicate it doesn’t have to be

Lync 2013 Conference Lifespan Chronicles

There’s a fun little quirk in Lync 2013 and Skype for Business that I recently did battle with, and came out the other side in one piece. It has to do with conferences that are kept around for many hours being killed before I want them to be. Why would you…

The 10 Before The 4, Then, The One or So

Unveiling The 10 Startups That Will Compete for 4 Pitching…

When a mid-level designer went from agency to product

In October 2014 I left advertising, and to be clear, I only lasted 2.75 years. When I got the offer to work at a digital ad agency in January 2012 I didn’t even realize that’s what it was — I was a young designer who wanted a job in New…

Believe in the Spark: 5 Lessons in Entrepreneurship

I Know What We Did Last Winter

(NowFloats Annual Mail, Dec 2015)

This time last year, I wrote this slightly…

5 Things to Consider when Working with a Remote Team

Your Mixpanel dashboard in Slack

Tired of logging into Mixpanel to review how your active users and main events statistics are going? How about receiving your main kpis every morning in your Slack channels?

From Wantrepreneur to Entrepreneur. My Journey so far.

Anger, Panic, Exhilaration and the Moment that Changed Our Trajectory

Starting, building, growing, scaling a business is like being on a journey. Along the way there are pivotal moments that shape your destiny. In my experience, these moments happen without you realizing in…

Pay-What-You-Want For An Early-Stage SaaS Startup

One of the hardest things when you launch a new SaaS…

Are You Pillar’s Next Investing Intern?

We’re an early-stage venture capital firm focused on technology companies that leverage…

Construyendo un ecosistema de emprendimiento (SUC#1)

Para nadie es un secreto que en el país (y honestamente en todo Centroamérica) no tenemos una comunidad de emprendimiento consolidada. Los emprendedores no conocen, o no tienen un acceso efectivo a los participantes del ecosistema que los…

Nord France Amorçage — Private/public fund… whaaaaaat ???

Je ne pouvais faire plus explicite comme titre en vue d’évoquer mon travail quelque peu atypique et premier job dans le beau monde des VCs. Ainsi je profite de Medium pour répondre — entre autre — aux questions suivantes :

Backend Development Sucks. Here’s how DevLess Makes it Better.

In software engineering, frontend and backend is the separation of concerns between the presentation layer (the frontend) — which is the interface between the user — and the data access layer (the backend).

The Next Hiring War Will Be Fought Over Creatives

One Zero Doesn’t Make A Conference, Ten Heroes Do

Bstow meets Silicon Valley: Oct/Nov Events

Hi Everyone,

Bstow has relocated to Silicon Valley (Mountain View) for at least the next four months! We’re really excited to be here to join the tech capital of the world, so that we can continue to improve our technology and…

9 Startup Lessons from Isaac Lidsky’s TEDTalk

Assessing Market Opportunities

Way too often, companies lack discipline around evaluating new markets and dive head first into new areas…

Why do we let Business Rob us Blind?

Because it’s the price you’re asked and expected to pay?

Stanford: How to Start a Startup 筆記（之二）

Part I : Le Manifesto

« Entrepreneurship is the new politics »

The Ultimate Startup Guide to Shanghai

Disclaimer: You might look at this and notice that the scroll bar on the right of screen is minuscule, which in most cases means that you’re about to embark on a BEAST of a read. What I would say is that if you’re looking for true ground level insight from…

webdesignrepo V2.0

New design, new features, new repos.

What You Actually Need to Know Before Joining a Startup

[With all due respect to Dan Lyons who wrote an entertaining book on his (short) time at HubSpot…]

Dear unassuming Fortune article reader who has never worked in tech,

Why durability of product important for selling?

To sell, a product should be durable. It should competitive with other competitive product in the replacement market. It means there are competition in the selling market. For example car clutch component ceeky clutch, c.a clutch, look clutch…

Thriving in Chaos

Sometimes I feel lucky. Sometimes I feel cursed.

My job, life, and family often revolve around chaos. At work, our team runs lean, so we’re always busy — sometimes too busy. In life, I volunteer for a non-profit revolving around digital marketing, and we just need to “do…

Predict the future to find your focus

Can humans predict the future? Hate to break it to you, but obviously I can’t predict the future and neither can anyone else. However, I can predict the future with some degree of certainty. Generally this degree of certainty is not very high, but I believe that…

Same pitch, different city

Why the tech tour sometimes feels like Groundhog Day

5 formas de mantener la motivación en un ‘startup’ de Media

Cada startup tiene sus particularidades. Historias que desde su origen modifican el modo en que un miembro del equipo se va a vincular con la empresa. Existe mayor identificación, un sentimiento de lealtad más alto que el que…

What startups are saying about the MassChallenge Boston Awards

What are the highest paying US states for software developers?

I researched salary information available on Indeed and SimplyHired in order to rank the states based on the salaries they offer software engineers (as of October 2016). The rankings I created include 20 of the…

2 Outsourcing Tips For The First-Timer

Union Square Ventures

ニューヨークのブロードウェイに拠点

Things you may not know about Customer Support at Cozy

11 Steps to Define your Startup Marketing Strategy

Having a marketing strategy is key for your startup or business in order to be able to reach your target audience. Finding the right users or customers for your startup should not be made randomly. You should define a marketing strategy for…

About #SWDXB16

Startup Weekend 2016: FashTech Edition

The IBM Studios and Dubai Client and Innovation Center had special guests over the weekend of October 13th — 15th. We welcomed the crew, mentors, judges and participants of Startup Weekend 2016, FashTech Edition.

Four habits that mentally powerful people possess

Overcoming Inertia — Part Three

So it’s pretty much one year on since I wrote the words below. As with each part of these ‘Overcoming Inertia’ posts I have written it in the moment, then posted them retrospectively.

Functions on demand, for more productive development

Difference between Serviced Offices and Coworking Spaces

These are two terms which we regularly come across in the business centre industry. In this article we’re going to go over both of these concepts and see what they mean for the modern day entrepreneur.

Talking Software Products in Bangalore

Bangalore was the next stop for the iSPIRT product round-table around the theme of “Getting Traction for Software Products”. The goal of this round-table, hosted by Niraj Rout (Hiver/Grexit), Natwar Maheshwari (Around.io) Avinash Raghava and me, was to get peer…

Les entreprises au service de l’écologie

UN GROS BOOM POUR NOTRE SI BELLE TERRE

L’écologie est un symbole en pleine croissance que les entreprises utilisent pour sensibiliser la communauté à s’investir davantage pour leur environnement.

A new way to discover holiday destination in Nepal

“We need nothing to disappear, just a destination”

Whether it’s a weekend, long vacation, hiking destinations, festivals, friday night parties, or even shopping destination, we…

Warum ein Partner-Fellowship das beste ist, das dir als Gründer in den Medien passieren kann

Du hast eine Idee. Du hast vielleicht sogar eine richtig gute Idee. Und ein Team, das perfekt passt, sich ergänzt und diese Idee auch umsetzen kann. Irgendwann wirst du an…

Sales Motivation in a Broken System

I spent two weeks in Jo’burg recently, consulting to a company on their Sales Processes and Team dynamics.

Starting to break down the different actions of their Sales team, I started making some notes as to what impact they have, and also…

Diary of a Madman, Page 13

5,000 people peering inside. Don’t get trapped.

Kevin Knight (Formerly Of Microsoft, Google, Facebook, And Pinterest) Comes Aboard Experticity As CMO

“He has such a natural understanding of what we are building, such a deep commitment to the authentic…