10 Web Development Companies You want to work with in 2018
Author: Aleks Pedchenko
Finding web programmers that will work is difficult enough, and that’s why these 10 companies are worth keeping an eye on.
Despite seemingly everyone having...
Startup Funding: What It’s Going To Take To Get That First Check From An...
Author: Poornima Vijayashanker
Interview with Investment Partners at XFactor Ventures Danielle Morrill CEO and Founder of Mattermark and Ooshma Garg CEO and Founder of Gobble
All this month we’ve been exploring how...
6 Ways Your Videos Can Boost the Growth of Your Startup
Author: Larry Kim
The standard business pitch presentation is so… yawn.
Think about it. How much do you enjoy sitting through slide after slide of numbers, figures and plans...
Time for my 501st adventure…
After an incredible journey at 500 Startups, I am now getting ready for my next adventure.
Author: Arjun Dev Arora
I came into 500 Startups right after...
How to lead, challenge and coach corporate rebels
Author: Marcus Raitner
Change needs disturbance. Every organization needs people who question the status quo. As jesters or corporate rebels, they cause constructive irritation and thus...
Want Growth? Don’t Look At Your Customer Data
Author: Andrea F Hill
Paying too much attention to today’s customers may make you blind to tomorrow’s.
It’s an easy trap to fall into.
Your company is doing...
Bleisure Travel: How to Capitalize on Business Travelers That Linger for Leisure
Author: AltexSoft Inc
Even office-based professionals may feel they’re losing that difficult balancing act between work life and social life. A subway ride to or from...
What is a great Product Strategy, really?
Author: Espen Sundve
After having spent years building products, and recently led the buildup of one of the largest product & tech organizations in Norway, people...
Bringing Entrepreneurship To Anyone in New Zealand, No Matter Where They Are
Author: Dan Khan
Today marks a landmark event for our team with the official launch of our new virtual accelerator and incubator programmes, bringing entrepreneurship support,...
Universal Basic Income: Yet Another Reason to Move to Canada?
Author: Meghan Nesmith
While Justin Trudeau playing with baby pandas is inarguably the most important Canadian news story in recent memory, we’ve also been making noise...
What’s it like to be a female entrepreneur in New Zealand?
Author: Alina Siegfried
Recently I asked a successful female entrepreneur, what was the one thing that New Zealand could do to encourage more women into entrepreneurship?
Her...
Ethereum Founder Talks Blockchain in New Zealand
Author: Alina Siegfried
Last night in Wellington, the BizDojo played host to one of the most exciting and innovative players in the blockchain space — Vitalik Buterin, the...
4 Reasons Why It’s a Good Time to Be a Social Entrepreneur in Australia
Author: Social Good Stuff
Although the social enterprise sector is still young in Australia, social entrepreneurs are on the rise in response to the social and...
Actions reflect leadership — not words
Author: Claire Lew
“It’s not what you say that matters — it’s what you do.”
I observed the truth of this old adage, firsthand, about six years ago.
At the time,...
The Limits of Loyalty: When Habits Change, You’re Toast
Author: Nir Eyal
“I’m endlessly loyal,” my wife said, staring straight into my eyes. But she wasn’t talking about our marriage — she was pledging her allegiance to...
How a Solo, Non-Technical Founder built a Million Dollar Tech Startup staying bootstrapped
Author: Neeraj Joshi
Whenever we talk about a million dollar tech startup, the first question that comes to our mind is: How much money it has raised till...
Why HubSpot’s Building a Centralized Platform
Author: HubSpot
In one year, HubSpot doubled the number of certified partners in its platform ecosystem and increased the number of apps installed by customers by...
Is This the Society We Really Want?
Author: John Battelle
Technology’s march is taken as gospel. But if we’ve learned anything from the past year, it’s that Valley giants often miss key human...
Why I left Google to join Grab
Author: Steve Yegge
After nearly 13 years at Google, I have finally left the nest! Never thought it would happen. I always thought I would die...
Is Amazon Go the first shot in the high street retail revolution?
Author: Enrique Dans
A little more than a year after its launch, during which it has carried out tests open only to company employees, Amazon has opened...
Why Business Design is the Most Important Skill of the Future
Author: David Schmidt
The times of pure Design Thinking are over: Certainly, the last years have seen the rise of Design Thinking and similar processes (most lately design sprints)...
Profits *Because of* Purpose
Author: Andrew Beebe
Milton Friedman would agree: give the people what they want.
Much has been written about the lofty goal of creating profits while somehow also delivering...
Why One CEO Calls Himself Chief Coffee Maker, and How It’s Benefitted His Company
Author: Yitzi Weiner
I had the pleasure of interviewing Ajeet Singh, CEO and founder of ThoughtSpot, a company that provides the industry’s leading search and AI-driven...
Building a Truly Successful Personal Brand Takes Vulnerability
Author: Nicolas Cole
When people think of a Personal Brand, do you know what they think of?
They imagine that Instagrammer they follow, a very attractive girl, who posts...
An MBA student’s toolkit for the smart machine age
New problem-solving skills are needed as tech advances into areas such as medicine and law
Author: The Financial Times
Do you remember Ello?
In the fall of 2014 headlines praised...
How I accidentally launched a startup while waiting for my visa
Author: Mathias J. Klenk
Ever since I was a child growing up in Germany, I dreamed of living in California’s Silicon Valley — a place driven by innovation...
The Six Minute Guide To Making Things People Will Love
Author: Bram Krommenhoek
The most crucial step to a successful startup, according to the most successful entrepreneurs.
What is the point of starting your startup?
Is it to...
7 Things That Define You and Your Personal Brand
Author: Nicolas Cole
If you’re looking to build a Personal Brand for yourself, then you need to get one thing straight from the get-go:
Who you are speaks...
Simple App Ideas: How to Find the Next Big Thing
Author: Josiah Humphrey
When it comes to building mobile apps, app makers tend to overcomplicate their ideas and strategies.
The app winds up becoming a clunky Swiss...
10 Career Mistakes That You Can Easily Avoid
Author: Darius Foroux
“It’s good to learn from your mistakes. It’s better to learn from other people’s mistakes.” — Warren Buffet
In the last decade, I went from student...
Startups Are Choosing $OST to Power their Blockchain Technology — Announcing 11 new OST partners during...
Author: Jason Goldberg
We are designing Simple Token, OST, to be the complete blockchain toolkit for business. Our ambition is to be the blockchain technology partner of choice...
3 Mistakes That Keep Any Startup From Succeeding
Author: Todd Belveal
You always have to think ahead when running a startup.
I know it’s fueled by ideas and passion and all that. But ultimately, your job is to...
How small companies can compete on the world stage
Author: World Economic Forum
Small businesses play a critical role in the global economy, contributing to economic opportunity, diversity and the overall health of our communities....
Work Smaller (Even If It Makes No Sense)
Author: John Cutler
Why do some teams fail to meet their sprint “commitments” (hate that word) sprint after sprint? In this post I argue that the...
Why You May Be The One Thing Holding Your Company Back (From Growth)
Author: Carter & Courtney Reum
You should have these two goals when spending marketing dollars: selling and experimentation. Are you using the right mixture of each...
Why Every Startup Should be Focused on Time—Time Efficiency and Saving Customers Time is...
Author: Yitzi Weiner and Casmin Wisner
“Jitjatjo’s mantra is ‘It’s about time.’ Every decision our company makes revolves around creating a time-saving, frictionless, and compelling experience for...
