9 Personality Traits of an Effective Developer
By Cronofy
While not an exhaustive list, this is also not a list of requirements.
Many of the traits are contradictory. In fact, it is the balance...
My Day As A Startup Founder
By Nicolas Cole
As a startup founder, however, my day actually started late last night. I climbed into bed around 11:14 p.m., after spending two hours...
42 Books That Will Make You A Better Person (Each Described In 1 Sentence)
By Ryan Holiday
If you read a lot, it can be easy for all the books to blur together. Especially as the years pass, it can be difficult...
How to ‘Reboot’ Your Creative Brain and Refresh Your Focus in 15 Minutes or...
By Thomas Oppong
In today’s information-obsessed world, our minds are in constant overdrive.
Your brain is a living, inventive, and rapidly renewing organ that needs all the...
eBikes ahoy! How an NZ startup is trying to bring the e-biking revolution to...
By Harsimran Julka
Fed up with the problem of finding a parking space in downtown or around Queen Street, an e-bike may be the best way...
7 Marketing & Sales Books To Quickly Grow Your Startup
By Alexander D. Riddle
Without sales and marketing in place, your business will never succeed.
I love trying to find new ways to scale my business, and over...
How I Doubled my Salary in Five Months and Got an Amazing Job
By Sam Williams
Six months ago I quit my job as a junior JavaScript developer and travelled around south east Asia for five months. Within a...
Why great startups pay higher salaries
By Dr. Arthur Krebbers
I remember the graduate job dilemma well: “Work for a large firm, learn on someone else’s wallet!” was one option touted to me. Versus “Join...
Stephen Hawking Taught Us It Was Right to Be Wrong
By making bets he was happy to lose, the physicist showed that science progressed with each mistake
By Adam Minter
In 2002, the future Nobel Prize-winner Peter Higgs joined several...
Why You Should Ignore Every Founder’s Story About How They Started Their Company
By Trevor McKendrick
Founding Stories Are Myths
Company founding stories are almost always non-malicious lies. Take Netflix:
That didn’t actually happen
Reed Hastings has said many times that he got the idea for Netflix because he once was...
If You Have These 3 Things in Place, You Will Master Any Industry
By Nicolas Cole
Habits are universal.
We are all human. Which means that success and how it is achieved is also largely universal.
What someone learns in one...
Who will steal Android from Google?
By Steve Yegge
Disclaimers: These are my own personal opinions. A lot of them are probably wrong. I do not speak for my employer (Grab!). Take...
A Wake-Up Call For Tech Managers
By Marcus Blankenship
The article tells the story of Jamie, a programmer who joins a new company full of enthusiasm and ideas. Fast-forward a couple years,...
Meet John — the 21-Year-Old Entrepreneur Whose Inspiring Story Will Make You Cry Tears of Joy
By Larry Kim
A lesson in never letting yourself be held back
When it comes to the entrepreneurship, most people focus on how they can grow a business....
What Do You Want To Be Most Proud Of In The Next 3 Months?
By Danny Forest
A few days ago, I wrote about a question I was asked by a friend I hadn’t seen in four months: What are you...
Don’t waste your time with passion
By Aytekin Tank
How to make problems your solution.
“You’re missing the point.”
This was not the first dinner with a hopeful startup founder seeking my advice that would come...
