The early days of your new venture is an exciting time. Your plan is coming together and your new…
These past five years have brought with them some of the most difficult, interesting, and rewarding moments of my career and life. In 2011, I dropped out of business school at Stanford to join an eight-person startup where no one was paid a…
“Do what you love, in the place you love, with people you love,” said my friend Brad…
Every manager remembers their first time. A mysterious 15-minute meeting shows up on the calendar for tomorrow morning with the title “Quick Sync.” You sit down across the table with the initiator…
I joined the rank of investors not that long ago. Before that I used to talk to a lot of…
There’s a big trend lately of giving people total freedom at work. Makes sense on paper — the people on your team are grownups who can make their own choices, and you shouldn’t have to babysit them.
Originally published on our blog way back in 2014, this post has been one of our most enduringly popular. According to Google Analytics, the average reader has spent over 20 minutes studying it. Since that time, we’re…
Now you can embed products and comments on Medium and across the web 🌐
When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5 million in infrastructure just to get started and another $2.5 million in team costs to code, launch, manage, market & sell our software. So it’s unsurprising that typical “A rounds” of venture capital were…
Over a year ago I wrote about why the coding interview was lazy and obsolete:
Personally, I used to be all for these algorithms, probably because I managed to get a high distinction in Data…
This blog post is the first in a series that we plan on publishing, in an attempt to pass along…
A brown eyed geek with a biker helmet and khaki shorts walked through the door of The Creamery, San…
Reducing Churn
We, a cutting edge, innovation driven technology company are currently hiring a Senior CAPTCHA…
Back in 1986, Charles and I were not born yet, and it was the last time an independent insurer was licensed in France.
Today, we can reset the counter: we are very happy to announce that Alan is now a…
Octobre 2001, ma vie scolaire s’éteint peu à peu. Elle ne fut ni glorieuse, ni agréable…
Measuring CAC is necessary when running a BtoC or BtoB (SME) business.
Why is it so important? CAC is one of the main KPIs to analyze when scaling up. It’s useful to A/B Test different acquisition channels or to…
We spoke in his favorite restaurant, Pastacaffe.
Juraj grew the Represent team…
Here’s some comments from a discussion about YPlan’s recent demise:
“Well i would imagine the founders didn’t put in much of the 1.5m, had fun squandering other people’s money for years while paying themselves and their friends salary”
“Terrible for everyone, the Founders would have seen a sliver of…
By Rei Biermann, AWS Startups
*names have been changed to protect nobody really, just because I felt like it
Jay, Man With Children: You wouldn’t believe what just happened. I had to jump…
It is perfectly natural to factor in the environment when it comes to getting inspiration or maximizing your productivity. This is why we are more than happy that Cebu is becoming a hub for startups and inspiring more people to work on their ideas through thinking spaces, brainstorming…
Every day on Medium, I read stories of people who left their corporate jobs to start their own…
You want to build your list FAST right?
What if your list building went viral? Imagine thousands of new signups in days or weeks, instead of it taking years. If that doesn’t raise your pulse a few beats, then I don’t…
So many people still think culture is for people with too much time on their hands. Everyone is so…
Stories are powerful tools of influence. In a world of increasing overwhelm, stories give structure and…
By Zavain Dar
“Hey look, there’s this place here where we just create a cool page and we get free money!” Says still way too many entrepreneurs, just before they find themselves stuck in a trap they don’t know how they got into and don’t know how to get out of. Some call it the…
Product Market Fit is like sex in high-school, everyone is saying they are having it…
We’ve gotten really good at buying stuff. I can tap a button and get a ping-pong table, horse mask, and ice cream maker on my doorstep tomorrow (it’s going to be an interesting Halloween). But if I actually need to get things done and find the people to help me — a DJ, a trainer, a…
If you have ever been a solo designer at a startup, you know how many hats that means you wear.
L’écosystème startup est maintenant très développé en France et on trouve tous types de…
Business failure doesn’t come from nowhere. When an E-commerce startup fails, it fails due to reasons that are often easy to see long before everything falls apart. This may sound like common sense, but too few entrepreneurs bear this…
It gives me great pleasure to announce that we have accepted $2 million in seed capital led by White Star…
One year ago today I quit my job, leaving my comfort zone to start a new business. The thought had been circling in my mind for some time, but I’d always silenced it with self-doubt and a perceived sense of security from my regular paycheck. But last October I…
Buying local — the millennial trend that’s big in every city. Most city-dwellers have most likely noticed the focus on local by now. Locally grown veggies at the store, locally sourced chicken salad at the café, locally printed tote bags, locally…
By: Christian Hernandez
In mid -2009 I was introduced to a fast-speaking technologist in London. Rahul Powar had been the initial Chief Technical Architect at Shazam, and had this Valley-esque…
Katie Hawkes, a Program Coordinator at the Insight Data Science Fellowship in Silicon Valley, discusses the transition from her past nonprofit career to working in the tech industry — including how to not sell out on your passions, which…
Today, I’m excited to announce a new product that radically transforms our business model, SIZERIGHT. Rather than producing custom…
After 8 years, September 30th 2016 was my last day at Microsoft. I wrote a post on Facebook to share my thoughts and feelings and was…
‘Just stick with it’
Join the FreshFund Student Investors Team!
Based in Jerusalem, FreshFund is Israel’s first student-run venture fund. A joint venture between tzvi.vc and Siftech, FreshFund invests in student-run and other promising early-stage companies. Our mission is to create new access points for Israeli students of all background into…
If you’re not creating content, you don’t exist on the Internet. Medium posts…
Big day today as we shook hands on a joint venture with Mark Flack, Director of the Small and Medium Enterprise Association of Australia.
Février 2014, 9h02 le téléphone sonne. Un client me dit qu’il est très surpris, car le site que nous lui avons livré la…
Entrepreneurship is like dating several people at once. Spending quality time on a marketing strategy for…
If you are someone who likes to keep the house well organised and tidy, then the…
You hear about it all the time. Diversity in tech — it’s a huge problem. But have you ever…
Después de semanas de duro trabajo, análisis y pruebas, estamos contentos de anunciar hoy un importante rediseño a las…
The acquisitions of Instagram, WhatsApp, Dollar Shave Club and others represent the dream. These billion $ outcomes fuel our entire ecosystem and keep the startup capital cycle flowing. While the media loves to cover these huge outcomes, there is little to learn from them that can be…
Whisper.ws is one of the projects I’ve been working on as of late as I explore ephemeral sharing and developer tools. Whisper is useful when you…
I started out in 2009 when the ecosystem was just building up in India & entrepreneurs…
Launching a mobile app successfully can be a daunting task. Especially if you’ve put months of…
I had a torrent of learning and revelation that week following the startup weekend win. I…
By Nikhil Bhogal, June Co-Founder & CTO
Barış Abi ne güzel özetlemiş ülkemin genç girişimcilerinin halini.
“Hava ayaz mı ayaz ellerim ceplerimde,Bir türkü tutturmuşum duyuyorsun değil mi?Çalacak bir kapım yok mutluluğa hasretim,Artık sokaklar benim görüyorsun degil mi?”
The other day my wife and I sat down to watch a film on demand called “Joy”. I wasn’t familiar with the film so when I…
I’m sure all of you have pictured this before while thinking about one of your product people: “wow this guy/girl is a rock star!”
Why do some people continue to exceed expectations and make you feel like they can take on any task? How can we…
We often hear stories about startups that spent too much, too fast and many times…
100 Global Leaders. 35 countries represented. An unforgettable experience.
Adapting to a new environment can be quite difficult. Ironically, on the first night, Hive separated us into groups of roughly 6 Hivers, and made us comfortable with…
Great company. Inspiring conversation. Delicious food.
Una característica distintiva del universo emprendedor es que el acceso al sistema de crédito tradicional es…
Driven by the desire to change things the way they work, entrepreneurs strive to realise the true potential of their business ideas. But, lack of deep pockets and competition from bigger market players is something that kicks…
Forced by shem’s hilarious post “Fuck you Startup World”, a lot of people jumped on the bandwagon…
Working for a Startup sounds sexy and at the same time worrying.While you may have read…
By: Keith Krach
As an entrepreneur, you’ll often face tough decisions, in addition to the many small ones that make up a typical day. A number of experienced entrepreneurs and…
When I graduated from college (DCE 2014), I joined Akosha (now known as Helpchat) for a generic profile (called Startup Junkie) where my main role was to work directly with the co-founders and help them in whatever domain/task they needed my help. A sort of fast track leadership role at a…
I haven’t written one of these in a while. A few years back, I would do a lengthy letter of “to whomever it may concern” giving an update on my life annually on my birthday. As if anyone really cares. Just kidding, I think there might be a couple people who genuinely care…
Interview by Allison Grinberg-Funes
先週は待望のPM（プロダクトマネージャー）に関する記事が公開！ITpro EXPOも盛り上がっていました。
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The Product Manager position is one of the most sought after, but elusive positions in…
What defines LA? Some might say sports. Some might say sprawl. Others might say entertainment. But I think all those are offshoots of what LA is really good at: monetization.
最近 Y Combinator は「ハードテックスタートアップ」に注目しています。スタートアップシーンの将来を考えるとき、 Y Combinator の投資先はある種の先行指標になると思っているので、今回はハードテックスタートアップについて YC の投資先を中心に現在の状況を簡単に解説しました。
是非 Sam Altman による MIT での講演 How to Start a Hard Tech Startup やその日本語版解説も合わせてご覧ください。
This is awesome, Cant wait to write my next This Week on Product Hunt post using Product Hunt Cards.
My favorite recent product discovery is Vaultedge. Love how it makes easy to search all my documents in one place. Like “Google Search” for all my personal documents :)
Most tech companies allude to a serious tech talent crunch. This assertion is backed by the…
I am about to go do something that a lot of people have done before — pursue their…
The thing about trying to start your first company, the-most-difficult thing, that horribly-elusive-always-screw-up thing, the we-will-most-certainly-lose-money-on-this-thing thing, is…
Until earlier this month, I had forgotten about receiving this email …
From: KemariSent: Sunday, February 01, 2009 5:10 PMSubject: Advice
I’m Kemari. I’m in high school and i’m looking to start a web…
As a top-billing headhunter, I am constantly appalled at the throngs of people with NO recruitment expertise who go around telling others what to do.
Stand-ups are part of the common lore in software development teams. I have personally been part of several of them and have always had a love-hate relationship with them.
This might be inspiring:
A couple of years ago Barcelona had all the ingredients to become an awesome startup hub, but it needed cooks to put those ingredients together to make it work. An example of one of those ingredients is the ability to attract talent. The cost of living is low and the quality of living is high, the…
Your schedule is a big part of your practice — and the more flexible it is, the more successful you can be. That’s why the latest release of Orchestra One focuses on providing you a whole set of scheduling features that can bring you…
work at Spocial IncFounder and beginner Engineer Live in San FransiscoLanguage/English, Japanese, python,Javascript
I’m incredibly excited and encouraged by the good Seattle citygoers are doing, and the effect it’s beginning to have on our homeless community (more on this later). I’ve also gotten some notes from the ones who haven’t gotten their first beacon notification yet. There’s 3 reasons…
It all started around the last days of the Summer.
You know it from the way you feel in the morning. The season’s over and no romantic Fall can hide the fact the Winter’s next.
They’re one & the same.
Here’s a quick overview of our plunge into the fascinating world of small businesses!
The company you work for is not your family. Your family is your family, your kids, your spouse, and close friends. They matter.
There’s an illusion you get after working at a place for a long-time that this institution…
“Believe me it is better to understand the balance sheet of one’s own life than of the corn trade.”…
Our product, Daybook, was one of the first iMessage extensions. We were early believers in the potential of iMessage extensions and we launched Daybook when the new iMessage App Store first opened for business. We don’t have a standalone app and right now, we…
Ed note: This is the next step in our ongoing discussion about the NOTE discovery call process. Please read…
Why does Corporate Secretarial Service Needed for Successful Company Incorporation Singapore?
‘Insurance is fun’. Not a phrase you ever hear people say. However, if you work in the insurance capital of the world, Lloyd’s of…
Every startup I’ve been a part of has weighed the following question: should we go after large enterprise customers, usually paid (“we need revenue!”) or make our service open…
So if anyone remembers that time I went to Toronto for the Word on the Street…
After a short summer break Brown students are back to discuss their experiences with Real Estate Internships!
Student Interviews:
Brown Students in Real Estate is more than an educational platform, it is also a community. As we all…
The food industry is being re-shaped as we speak. Whether it’s food delivery…
Hi, there. You can read this on Marvel. The kind folks over there let me guest write a post. It’s what we use at Everfest for prototyping and product collaboration.
By: Katherine J. Flocken
As spring semester at Purdue was ending and college was winding down, many of my friends in the computer science program…
In a tight labor market with rapid growth and the pressing need for the best talent, hiring is a capability that…
This is a talk I gave at a Hacker News meetup a few years ago on how to raise a seed round. It’s still pertinent today.
Before I publish anything else, here’s a quick introduction and brief breakdown of what to expect from my content here on Medium.
Although big data is feeding an expansion in the use and development of business…
Chaque semaine, en partenariat avec Le Figaro et le cabinet de conseil Taddéo, nous invitons une start-up digitale, Alumni de notre programme d’Accélération ou non, à venir défendre son projet face à un spécialiste de son industrie…
A few weeks ago the Hackney Council announced that they would be raising rates by 46% due to their…
This article was written together with Takako Teruyama for Makers Boot Camp.
Makers Boot Camp’s monthly event, Monozukuri Hub Meet up, had its 7th edition on Wednesday, 16 October…
More than a year after I relocated from India back to my home country Germany, I returned…
This is not advice, but simply rough notes for my own consumption which can be wrong. Use at your own risk. Consult somebody who knows this better.
Emily Foote, cofounder of Practice, dropped by PSL Bootcamp to share her story about gaining traction. The path to securing those first ten…
Startups are exciting, isn’t it ? every time someone talks about startups and business. I will dive into the discussion and add my voice to it.
At the same time, when I hear some startups which get fully funded gets failed in 1–3 yrs, I feel bad.
“People don’t want to buy a quarter-inch drill, they…
A good friend of mine, Cheryl Smith, sometimes referred to as the coaches’ coach, visited our HQ this week to give startup CEOs an insight into the tools of professional coaching.
This is super cool. Really have to give it up to the Product Hunt team for this. It’ll be great to hopefully start seeing PH stuff appear more frequently now with this tool.
Id’ have to say one of my new favorite products is Disrupt Cards. Daniel Singer, jordangonen, Andrew So, and Jeremy Maluf really did a great job with…
Remember, your app idea is not enough for you to get funding for your application. Each app idea has to have a market and a potential revenue stream for it to attract the right investors. A mobile app has first to attract customers, and the investors…
Next up in this series of get-t0-know-you posts is the lovely Makers Academy. Teaching code one willing student at a time!
Explain what Makers Academy does… to an alien (ie keep it simple and jargon free!)
Se algo pode dar errado, vai dar errado. Se um dia começa ruim, ele vai ser todo ruim. Verdade? Mentira. E se for, e dai?
E dai que seu dia começou com o pão caindo com o lado da manteiga para baixo? E dai que você teve um problema pessoal que…
Radical Candor can be applied not just in feedback conversations, but in all interactions. It can be used to guide communications, including this tricky situation sent by a reader:
Originally posted by Fiix under car won’t start advice.
Many of the best startups happened when someone needed something in their workplace, found it…
