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 Army knife — one that offers too many features, is difficult to learn and use, and costly to maintain.
But when we think about successful apps, it’s often the simplest ones that come to mind — apps like Dropbox and...
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 to entrepreneur to freelancer to climbing the corporate ladder to blogger to teacher.
Yes, that’s not a normal career path, and it’s also not what I ever expected. But life hardly turns out the way you...
Three mind control exercises that are more vivid than meditation
Author: Alex Mathers
Whether you think it’s all mumbo woo-woo or not, many people, including myself, have seen their lives change by meditating.
Yoga International defines meditation as:
“Meditation is a precise technique for resting the mind and attaining a state of consciousness that is different from the normal waking state. It is the means for fathoming all the levels of ourselves and...
Facebook is done with quality journalism. Deal with it.
Author: Frederic Filloux
For Facebook, journalism has been a pain in the neck from day one. Now, bogged down with the insoluble problems of fake news and bad PR, it’s clear that Facebook will gradually pull the plug on news. Publishers should stop whining and move on.
Let’s admit that publishers have been screwed by Facebook. Not because Mark Zuckerberg is evil,...
The Purpose Of Life Is A Life Of Purpose.
Author: Philomon Sylvester
The importance of a purpose.
When there are feelings, and convictions, the great thing is to gather them all up to some distinct object. This “purpose” must not be only of the deliberate intention of the mind, but a “purpose of the heart.” Feeling needs a focus. If you wish to keep a thought, turn that thought into action,...
Startups Are Choosing $OST to Power their Blockchain Technology — Announcing 11 new OST partners during 1st OST Startup Day
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 for businesses of all sizes.
Since the completion of our ICO on 1 December, 2017, we have received hundreds of inbound requests from companies to partner with OST. In the coming weeks we will announce many new...
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 structure the company, deliver a product, and attract capital.
That requires quite a bit of foresight.
Especially when it comes to attracting capital, which is what you’re going to be doing most of the time.
Most successful founders...
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. If current trends continue, however, we may soon wake up in a world where many of these businesses have closed and only a few of the very largest players remain open.
This could have a dramatic...
Why Uber, Lyft and Didi won’t dominate urban mobility (but who might)
Author: Greger Ottosson
If you’re into business strategy or product management, even if in a different industry, urban mobility is a market you should follow in the next 5 years. This article will give you a perspective on what’s happening and explain the dynamic behind the headlines and announcements coming at us almost daily.
Here’s what you should know:
The first wave...
Don’t Live For The Moment. Live For The Legacy.
Author: Brianna Wiest
You don’t control the outcomes of your life, principles do.
Benjamin Hardy says that our lives are governed by objective principles: if you drop a book, gravity will ensure it hits the ground. You controlled that action, but the outcome was the result of how it interacted with the outside world.
The examples he offers are eye-opening:
Given the choice, which would you rather...
Everything is broken. What now?
Author: mike fettis
It’s broken and its your fault!
It’s broken and it’s always been that way
It’s broken and lets fix it
There are many problems happening in the world, problems and broken situations happen all the time. The government is broken and its your fault! The financial institutions are broken but lets fix them with cryptocurrency, and blockchains. Government oppression has broken...
Success In Six Words Wisdom.
Author: John Gorman
Aside from the hell of overthinking and the dart art of questioning everything, being, or at least feeling, “enlightened” — and we define that term by basically being smart enough to know that things like faith and love are just internal chemical reactions seasoned with a bit of random chaotic luck, and that much of life is just math and science, and...
30 Behaviors That Will Make You Unstoppable
Author: Benjamin P. Hardy
A lot of people are good at what they do. Some are even elite. A select few are completely unstoppable.
Those who are unstoppable are in their own world. They don’t compete with anyone but themselves. You never know what they will do — only that you will be forced to respond. Even though they don’t compete with you, they make you...
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 cure is working extremely and counterintuitively small, but that our biases (and intuition) make that difficult. There are some deep human things at play.
The Goal
Thought experiment…
Team Acme is asked to set a goal. The goal involves...
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 to ensure the growth that you need?
Marketing dollars can often be the lifeline to your company’s growth and scaling ability. But the challenges for founders in today’s startup environment are the many ways of spending...
Why Every Startup Should be Focused on Time—Time Efficiency and Saving Customers Time is Key to Success: With Tim Chatfield
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 our clients and talent.”
I had the pleasure of interviewing Tim Chatfield, co-founder and CEO of Jitjatjo. He is also known as the “micro and macro manager of the unmanageable”. For instance, he moved halfway around the...
