These 10 Hidden Gmail Productivity Hacks Will Give You Goosebumps
Author: Larry Kim
For many, Gmail is their preferred email service. But, even when you get to use your favored provider, that doesn’t necessarily make managing email fun.
Sorting through inboxes, replying to messages, and creating new communications can get tedious, especially if you deal with hundreds of emails a day.
If you find your eyes glazing over when you look at the pile of...
Things are going so well we’re doing a hiring freeze
Author: DHH
Business has never been better at Basecamp. Despite all the competition, all the noise, and all the changes since we launched 14 years ago, 2017 was the year we earned the most revenue ever.
While that alone is cause for some celebration, it’s hardly the most important thing for Jason and I, as the business owners. Sure, it’s nice to see...
Steps to Validate your startup idea before you spend any $…even $1….
Author: Saloni Kapoor
“Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.” — Drew Houston, co-founder and CEO of Dropbox
You’ve been working on a cool idea for the past few months. You have made significant progress in building your first prototype.
However, you are still not sure of whether people will buy your product.
The hard truth is, you can spend years building,...
Put Your Startup On The Right Track In 30 Days.
Author: Bram Krommenhoek
What smart entrepreneurs do different.
What’s your make-it-or-break-it of your startup?
42% of startups failed because they didn’t solve a market need.
The biggest mistake: not building something people will love.
If you don’t solve a problem, no one cares.
No wonder.
It’s way nicer to build than it is to see whether your idea makes any sense.
On top, you want to sell your first...
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 a web product, it’s borderline impossible to find someone reliable, who actually answers and who actually does the work to a quality that’s above “I made a Tumblr.” This leaves a lot of people falling...
Startup Funding: What It’s Going To Take To Get That First Check From An Investor
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 startup fundraising is changing and why it’s going to continue to change in 2018.
We started off by talking about why you don’t want to reach out to an investor when you just have an idea,...
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 etched out in painstaking detail?
I hate to break it to you, but if you’re getting rejected by investors there’s a decent possibility it’s because your pitch sucks.
I shared an infographic from Guy Kawasaki a while ago in...
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 spending time operating and building companies as a founder and was incredibly excited to start leveraging my experience angel investing / advising to “go pro.” I joined as an EIR and was fortunate to work...
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 prevent dangerous stagnation. After the ten principlesaddressed to the corporate rebels themselves, the question now naturally arises of how to create an environment for constructive rebelliousness and how to lead, challenge and coach rebels.
For this Tanmay...
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 well, you have a solid base of existing customers, and you want to grow your customer base.
You have a CRM system overflowing with customer data. It should be easy enough to ask an analyst to...
How E-Commerce will change in the next 5 years and what you can do about it?
Author: Dwayne Gefferie
Back in 1998, when I created my first website, I could not have imagined what kind of impact it would have on my life and career. So whenever I sit down with some of the biggest E-Commerce merchants of the world, I can’t help but imagine what is next. In this post, I would like to share some...
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 the office can turn the day into a marathon shift if you don’t turn off the internet on your smartphone. Sending emails, messaging with colleagues, making to-do lists for the day while on the go...
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 often ask me what product management is and what defines a great product strategy.
Here is my beta-attempt to give clarity to the ambiguous case of product strategy. I know it has flaws and would love...
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, resources, and mentorship to anyone in New Zealand no matter where they are.
It’s been a long time coming for us, and is the evolution of a vision that I started over 10 years ago with...
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 about Universal Basic Income. Also known as negative income tax or guaranteed annual income, universal basic income is a “social policy that would supplant various welfare programs by providing a baseline amount of money to all...
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 response was startlingly simple:
“Tell the stories of those who are already doing it”
By making women visible and showcasing what is possible, can we encourage other would-be entrepreneurs to make the leap? Can we better harness the...
