For developers who were thinking about getting a new work laptop, here’s what Apple…
via Muzli design inspiration
Most investors and entrepreneurs are unhappy with the configuration of their board(s). It’s very too…
The Model T assembly line transformed car manufacturing. Software-as-a-Service revolutionized…
First of all, I really appreciate the positive response I received to the previous post on “YC Application Advice for International…
Jobs to be Done (JTBD) is increasingly popular among software people. At Founders we are big fans of the…
On May 28th, 2015 we invested $100,000 into Angelica Nwandu’s business, The Shade Room.
Designers inspiration for your next presentation
About this seriesThis series of articles are drafted from our experience at Point Nine Capital on the top priorities…
A short guide to the awkward waters of procreation and the workplace.
Quantum mechanics can describe a lot about UX including it’s freaky…
This is the first installment of @efLDN’s five-part series on tactical fundraising advice.
As LionBird was developing its investment thesis on “Digital Business Services”, I read everything I could get my hands on related to the space. Specifically, for startups serving the generally overwhelmed, unsophisticated and squeezed for cash SMB segment, I…
It’s late December 2012. There is 24 inches of fresh powder on the ground at Squaw Valley, and…
One of our big learnings over the last three years has been that at Ather we are not just building the S340 but…
“Guys, I’m quitting my job to move to Spain and work on my project” — my friends were mid-eye roll before I even finished the sentence. For years I talked about living abroad while working remote, but my timeline was always 6 months out; after this next project finishes or as soon as…
Hello!
My name is Ed Lopez and I’m head of Digital Strategy and Operations for Legendary Digital Networks. My main job is to support and grow Geek & Sundry, Nerdist, Smart Girls and Alpha.
They’re not only boring your employees and colleagues to tears — meetings could be…
In startups as in sport, what matters is not just whether you win or lose, it’s how you play the game.
We at Lightspeed were investors in LivingSocial, shortly after the change from Hungry Machine. We rode the wave up, when the company became a unicorn. We rode it down as well, through rounds of layoffs. We lost money on the…
À la base, je voulais juste montrer à ma mère comment regarder une P*** de vidéo sur internet…
Thoughts from a Founder, an Equity Consultant and an Investor
She was chic. She was both elegant and a tomboy. She was the face who changed fashion forever. She was Coco Chanel.
A reflection on the early years inside a bootstrapped startup, as told by the first technical hire.
Blackbird Ventures host weekly AMAs over on The Sunrise. Tune in Thursdays from 1pm AEST to take…
We’ve all felt that soul sucking feeling of scrolling Facebook at 1am only to ask ourselves “why did…
A few days ago I was in Barcelona for the latest edition of the European Organization Design Forum. It’s been my…
At VTS we sell enterprise Commercial Real Estate SaaS products. Some of our customers include large companies with strict security requirements, and nearly every customer considers the information in VTS highly confidential. VTS realized early on that…
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We turn to industry publications to defog the methods by which entrepreneurs turn good ideas into successful companies — but what about the ideas themselves? How do you come up with an idea? How do you know what…
This week we launched a new way to make investments in startups: with Bitcoin!
“Mom, I’m going to write a book now.”
INFORMATION: Conditions were as…
Recently I’ve been mentoring founders at Singularity University, an organization and accelerator program that bets on…
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In a previous post, I outlined what it is that lures so many entrepreneurs and startups into the “Crowdfunding Trap” — the place where you think you’ve caught the big prize but later find out you’ve gotten yourself stuck. In this post, we’ll examine what makes you get…
The spookiest time of the year is upon us, so we thought we’d help you get in the…
Social media has become a vital element of marketing and has been shown to be very effective at gaining site traffic for businesses. Even though getting that like on Facebook or follow on Twitter may not seem like much at the…
The most extensive and detailed checklist of marketing best practices that exists today.
Work is becoming increasingly flexible. Some predict that by 2020, half of the…
1 TB of Cloud Storage at 64.99 USD One Time Payment
Cloud computing is on the rise with various cloud storage offers by top tech companies around the world. This week, I will share with you a special offer I got through a partner of the Avangate affiliate Network.In my last post, we saw how to get 2 GB of free storage with…
なんか、それっぽいタイトルをつけようとしたら、変な日本語になってしまった気がするけど、気にしない。
When was the last time you had a conversation that changed the way you thought or shifted a…
As the executive director of the Human Rights Center at UC Berkeley, which recently won the MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about how universities can be “value added.” What can…
Maybe you read about Localeur’s recent funding or saw the SEC filing.
I didn’t want to publicize this. I didn’t send a press release or reach out to any members of the media with a sense of urgency to…
Daniel Sanabria came to us just over a year ago — he’s a trader by profession, and he’s a non-degree seeking student at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Collat School of Business (UAB CSOB) running his company Sigma93 Capital Management LLC from the UAB iLab at…
Participation in the Hult Prize will allow young entrepreneurs to “realise viable long-term career options” in “social enterprise 2.0”, according to the University of Sydney Campus Director of…
The hiring of salespeople is often one of the most frustrating aspects of staffing a software or hardware company. In fact, it’s often viewed as a…
In working with dozens of startups, messaging is one of the most challenging things to tackle.
Creating a core story that explains what a startup does, who it serves and why what it does matters is, in theory, a…
My wife thinks so.
We’re so close! Sometimes we feel impatient and we want you here today for the sake of our kids. But when we take a step back we realize we have to be responsible in this work.
Love,
I have just been reading the 2015 Annual Report for CDC, the UK’s development finance institution. It’s a good…
Exciting news! We are starting to add nutrition information to all Galley dinner meals on both the website and iPhone app this week. We are rolling these out as fast as we can, so keep an eye out over the next couple of days as they get added to our menu items.
I’ve read a series of articles on what WebSummit will bring to Portugal, some of them…
The path I took to build a skateshop.
Almost 3 years ago, I opened my dream business(a skate-able skateshop) in one of the toughest places to open a business — My hometown of Fresno, CA.
BroCoders team will tell you about 7 mistakes that will make your project die.
Thanks Brian, that’s a really clear example of refactoring to achieve a clean design. My only question with this approach is how well this scales across the development stack? Front end programming has a tendency to feed into lots of edge cases that are often reflected in the code. Back end (low level) code in my experience should seek to minimise the edge cases, which I guess is what Linus is referring to.
Every once in a while I am called to give a talk or a lecture to a bunch of people, most of…
Day 1: Today, we crash landed in the mouth of Caleb Watkins, an adolescent human male. From my initial surveying…
Design is a plan to make something. But there is no need to re-invent your plan for every project. That’s where frameworks come in. Developers will be familiar with the term framework. In software development frameworks are chunks of…
Ok, here’s the deal. GSOFT, a Montreal based company, identified a couple of brains and challenged us to create a software solution in only 2 weeks. As one of the teams with the highest potential, we’ve been sent to Prague to work on our project. Isn’t it exciting? It’s also a huge…
Many collaborative entrepreneurs wonder if there is a silver bullet that would help…
“If you’re a tech entrepreneur looking for an industry to disrupt…
Quartos cheios de reservas diretas são o melhor cenário possível para todo hostel. Sem…
I really enjoyed my time at Cardiff University where I studied Computer Science with a…
If you’ve spent some time as a developer in the world of startups or small growing companies think back and count how many times you’ve heard something similar to this: “We need to be more predictable, so we need to start estimating our backlog.” Something along those lines was uttered over a team…
Instacart is a company that brings your groceries to you. All you do is click the items and they end up arriving at your door. Instacart charges a delivery fee in order to make money, but the groceries cost the same. If a person wants to get their groceries, they go on the…
It’s about rising up, so that the ones around you can rise even further.
or, how my coworkers learned to stop worrying and love the mustard suit
What were you doing when you were 15? Playing JV sports? Bagging groceries at the local grocery store? Desperately trying to get a girlfriend despite your awkward social skills?
Are you running your meetings — and your organisation — like a hierarchy or as an intelligent network? It’s a question I ask frequently when sitting with clients trying to design events.
Joseph (Start Up Founder): Hi, nice to meet you… [Glance at Name Tag] …Harvey, from ABC Capital! You look very familiar, have we met before?
Harvey (VC): I’m afraid not. I just joined ABC Venture Capital 2 weeks ago. But you…
The best companies have spent the last decade investing in their digital capabilities, becoming more powerful and adaptable organizations.
We’re small but we think big. However, most of the CS advice out there doesn’t quite apply to us yet. Do you ever wonder how you can put some of those tips into practice? Here we’ve reworked tried and true…
This week in class, we talked about Minimum Viable Product (MVP) and prototypes. Although they are quite similar, there do have their differences. A prototype is the very first design or sketch of an idea. Prototypes do not have to be perfect and well designed; it just has to be able to bring an…
I met up with Alicia Navarro, the co-founder & CEO of, Skimlinks to speak with her about the unique culture that her company Skimlinks has built.
Es ist Donnerstagabend kurz nach 23 Uhr. Ich klappe meinen Laptop zu und falle auf die Couch. Ich habe die letzten zwei Stunden noch Emails beantwortet — im Büro habe ich das nicht geschafft. Ich bin müde, kann aber noch…
Updated March 14, 2017.
Leadership Q&A is a monthly series that shares insight from leaders in Boston with the startup community. This month, we spoke to Intelligent.ly co-founder Dave Balter, Mylestone’s, an early-stage…
Presentation Deck for Investors: www.dropbox.com/s/jxlprq8a1znb1me/WL_PitchDeck_Final.pdf?dl=0
But if you’re looking for an entertaining background story to go along with the deck, continue reading. We won’t disappoint.
We all know the line; but a startup should ask: “If we build it, will anyone care?” It can be very tempting to jump…
Now that I’m about half way complete with my semester off from school, I thought I’d take a moment to reflect on my experience. Today’s also a good day to reflect because Upsolve just got admitted to Blue Ridge Labs’ Catalyst…
Ever wanted to learn more on how Cubigo is turning its slogan Empowering Independent Aging into reality in the United States? Well, the time is now. November 8th at 8:30 PM CET…
Two weekends ago I had the privilege of volunteering for Black Wall Street Homecoming in Durham, NC, set up…
In our recent guest entrepreneur talk, Alex Epstein a Manchester Business School graduate and founder of hair care brand Concoction took us through…
Comet Messaging phase two is here. Now have full visibility of all emails between your Agency and your Tenants. Standalone or Integrated. Send a message to a single leaseholder, all occupants of an apartment, or a broadcast message to all occupants of a multi…
An $8 million investment from Intel Capital is the most recent in a series of wins for this home automation software company. Behind K4Connect’s financial growth is a product…
Chris Turner and I are the co-founders of a startup called Tenrocket, which we started about 2 1/2 years ago. We build web and mobile apps for startups in 10 days for 10k, and we’ve launched close to 40 startups…
Very recently our team completed a sports lighting project for the University of Queensland’s tennis facilities…
Knowing what kind of guests stay at your hostel can give you a sense of direction and is…
Conventional wisdom says startup founders should hire for scale e.g., the top-notch sales manager…
When you build a successful business — everyone remotely involved in the business calls himself a co-founder.
End of Story.
What started two years ago as an idea over beers at a restaurant has grown into so much…
Not long ago, I wrote a post outlining my departure from my previous startup. It was a very tough decision, but one that I felt needed to happen.
Since then, I have been pondering my next move. I looked at a few offers, some in very large companies, some in…
Founder Suicide & Reaching Out for Help
I don’t now how to start this post. Every way I’ve started feels insignificant, too emotional, or lacking compassion. Yesterday was an emotional day — good, bad, awesome, and gut wrenching.
What others think about me?-An insight to my strengths.
Knowing about your own personality is the most important skill you should develop in order to…
A ship store supplier or ship’s chandler is a merchant who supplies goods for ships. A ship store supplier provides goods for the ship’s store. They keep a wide variety of things in their stock including galley supplies…
One of the things I love most about the ActiveCampaign CRM is that it is organized in a Kanban view. Kanban is a method of organizing a process based on cards organized in columns. At the simplest, a Kanban board consists of a To Do column, a Doing column, and a Done…
I have shown this to people at cocktails in the past several years. Never failed to impress. It is so cool, it works very well.
For the past few months I was placed in a so called reverse mentorship. This was a person who was older & had more work experience than me and I was to be their mentor. And did I learn a lot! And so did she!I believe many see mentorships as a romanticised student —…
By Laura Miller
My dad went on a recent rant. Call it a polemic on the pitfalls of law school. My friends entering law school are brilliant, as are my family members and friends who are attorneys…
How did we find new, unsaturated marketing channel for early stage startup.
Genoomy helps you understand your DNA and your own health. They have created an easy to use tool to analyse DNA tests and present simple and…
Originally Published by The Capterra Talent Management Blog
Two weeks ago the Local-e team and I ( I wrote this post a couple of months ago), had a great product development…
Sam Parr — The Hustle
1. Download linkedin contacts and send email — first 1000 list subscribers
2. Publish 1 2000 word article with tagged images, title, and headlines to rank for SEO
By Gina Gutierrez, Senior Brand Strategist04|05|15
Love a good catchy title. If you know me well, then you know my thoughts on what the dirtiest four letter word in…
Puffy shoulders, big head bows, messy curly hair, mixing and matching seemingly unmatchable patterns and layers…
When we were younger, time could somehow not go by quickly enough. The hours and days would go by way too…
Alicia Thomas is founder and CEO of Dibs Technology, a digital platform that gives studios quick and easy access to real-time pricing for the boutique…
Okay, I get that these articles are hard to write. And I suppose we’re all supposed to learn from them.
But when I hear about all the great things that failed companies have done, it makes me wants to stand up and say, “yeah… but did you create something that people wanted and that created a profit?” If not, then you didn’t…
There is no doubt that turning an idea into a profitable and scalable venture is a dream come true for many…
Not sure if we’ll use the term “AI Blogging” for the product, and the company name is currently Cantervision — but any of those things can change.
I do have a coolio new email: Marc@Canter.Vision.
This was originally published on Entrepreneur.com as “The Identity Crises of Entrepreneurs”, and after reading Alexis Tryon’s awesome post, “Introducing myself has never been this hard.”, it seemed worthwhile to share a version here.
I sat down with Esther Dyson, a world leading angel investor, to learn something about her top investments and trends, mainly in eastern Europe.
I realized last night, I have hundreds of FB messages that I’ve never seen, nor responded…
We hold onto things, too many things. Closets full of clothes we never wear…
So far Carousell has raised 41.8 Million USD, which makes it one of the most funded…
Depending on the company’s product or service and the founder’s skillset the hiring process can…
The steps involved in developing a strong strategic plan and yet so many ignore this phase and only “DO”. It’s so much more impactful to understand the in’s and out’s of potential…
I have the shiny things problem. The same way that birds and small creatures get distracted by shiny things, I get sidetracked by each new issue that passes across my desk.
If this is the case, then re u saying that all the people around the world are studying MBA only for the sake of getting a promotion?
I have a startup however I lack any info on how to make this startup survive.. I might sales, some simple marketing, simple accounting. But I can’t manage people or do financial sheets, or…
Businesses often underestimate the power of the people they employee.
One of my favourite sayings is ‘money doesn’t grow a business, people do’. Without the right people (talented, inspired, driven, would do anything for the cause) no amount of capital or fund raising will help…
We sat down with the Organizer for Startup Grind Birmingham — Bay Shaffer — to find out what led him to launch this Google for Entrepreneurs program here. Shaffer was quick to reply, “Global impact,” stressing that “the reach of the community is astounding. There are…
I’m super excited to be relaunching my Startup Sense podcast this week. It’s been 18 months since I did my last interview/episode and I miss it…plus I keep getting messages from people asking me to bring it back. I did 76 episodes from 2012–2014 before shutting it…
I’ve been building a startup and studying minimum viable products, prototypes, and when a company should pivot. First of all, I’d like to share a little insight about minimum viable products(MVPs for short) and how they differ from prototypes.
Over the past year I’ve been able to FUND the life that I want through crowdfunding but I’ve realized the…
This is my personal opinion and you don’t have to agree, but my truth is that college is hard work. I don’t believe that college is meant for everyone. I also don’t believe that you have to go to college to be successful.
To address all important parameters to maximise your potential of success when launching an app, an interesting checklist to follow:
https://branch.io/resources/app-launch-checklist/#plan&
Are you a small business owner or a startup looking for somewhere to work from, so you can keep making…
Munch on Me is a company that gives people daily deals for food from restaurants in the city. Instead of giving discounts on all the food at a restaurant it gives discounts on certain items which does not negatively affect restaurants. Unlike…
I call my best friend who is one of my mentor. I got very interesting information. Although she knows every thing about…
One of the most important things that I’ve learned in the three years that I’ve been working on our startup, AtmaGo, is that it really is a rollercoaster ride. I’ve heard this many times before from experienced entrepreneurs, but nothing can really prepare…
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