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...
How this Entrepreneur Changed His Life and Built his 25 Million Person Social Media...
Author: Josue Arteaga
Countless phone and computer applications guarantee an increase in followers in no time, just like pages and posts guarantee followers in exchange for...
Exiting Your Startup: The Grand Finale
Author: Carter & Courtney Reum
In order to exit your company successfully, you must follow these simple steps.
Your company has finally achieved success.
You’re finally looking to cash...
“Be Prepared To Compete With The Very Best And Biggest Companies For Talent” 5...
Author: Yitzi Weiner
“Building a solid product generally takes two to three times as much time and effort as you initially expect. This is particularly true...
5 reasons you won’t get funded that aren’t your fault
Author: Founder Collective
Entrepreneurs pitching venture capitalists have access to an endless stream of advice on tweaks that can be made to their decks, strategies they...
Why side projects are so damn important
Author: Jake Prins
Trello, Craigslist, Unsplash, AppSumo, Twitter, Gmail… what do all these successful companies have in common?
Yes, they can all trace their humble beginnings back...
Charles Bukowski: How to Stand out in a Noisy World
Author: Zat Rana
“We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”
It’s a line only...
How to build a startup — without quitting your day job
Author: Aytekin Tank
Question: What do Craigslist and Albert Einstein have in common?
Answer: Their big idea started as a side project.
1905. Albert Einstein worked six days a week full-time...
When Ambition Leads to Failure
Author: Nathan Kontny
Someone asked me the other day what personality trait I had that’s responsible for the success I’ve had in life.
There’s two things to that...
How Startups Should Do Customer Discovery
Author: steve blank
A Case Study
Teams that build continuous customer discovery into their DNA will become smarter than their investors, and build more successful companies.
It’s been over...
Beyond The Entrepreneur, What Does It Take?
Author by: Vinod Khosla
So imagine the possible in the many of the areas of interest and let’s imagine the axes and tools of innovation. The...
Hire slowly, grow slowly: how we grew from 1 to 100 employees
Author by: Aytekin Tank
I shut down my computer and glanced at my desk calendar.
It was January 23, 2011. My company, JotForm, was five years old.
We had...
Why Buying a Stalled Startup is Better than Starting From Scratch (Now)
Author by: djhersh
After a long stretch in the venture-backed startup world, I eased out a few years ago to work on turnarounds — finding stalled companies and...
How To Get Your Boss, Company, And Clients Addicted To Your Work
Authored By: Josh Spector
Six ways to make yourself irreplaceable.
Lots of people are good at their job.
But many of those same people ultimately lose their job.
That’s...
