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- February 20, 2014
So the biggest news in the tech world now is Facebook’s $19bn purchase of WhatsApp. The founders are now the latest billionaires in the Valley. According to Sequoia Capital (the investors behind WhatsApp), four numbers made the app remarkable: the app has more than 450 million active users. That’s more than Twitter. Note the word […]
- February 11, 2014
Philanthropy by the Wealthiest
Fact: The richest eighty-five people in the world have the same combined wealth as the poorest half of the population. (source: Oxfam report) With wealth distribution so perversely skewed, does philanthropy by the most affluent among us make up for the negative consequences of inequality? Peter Buffet, Warren Buffet’s son, wrote: As more lives and […]
- February 10, 2014
The Only Metric That Matters
Don’t look at numbers or metrics in the abstract — total page views, logged in accounts, etc, but talk about users. […] How many people are really using your product? You need a metric that specifically answers this. It can be “x people did 3 searches in the past week”. Or “y people visited my […]
- February 9, 2014
Designing the Right Product
“You will always have business requirements that try to push you beyond ‘MVP’. Never, ever let business requirements get in the way of a great and empathetic user experience.” — Ethan Kaplan, Co-Founder of Live Nation Labs Some great tips on how to build a good product 1. Everything you do should always be a minimum […]
- February 6, 2014
Writing a Startup Post-mortem
This topic seems to be all I read about these days. It could very well be that I am just noticing it more because of my current state of mind. But it does seem that entrepreneurs are becoming increasingly transparent about their journey to failure. ‘My startup tanked’: Why more entrepreneurs are being open about […]
- February 5, 2014
Things I Learn from the Internet – 3
Note: Things I Learn from the Internet is a series of post containing snippets of wisdom collected from stuff I read on the WWW which do not warrant a post in itself. Crunchbase A free database of technology companies, people, and investors that anyone can edit. Its goal is to make information about the startup world […]
- February 4, 2014
The Economist Report on Tech Startups
The Economist has put together a 16-page special report on the rise of technology startups around the world. Very interesting read. TechCrunch did a pretty succinct summary of what’s in the report.
- February 3, 2014
Europe’s Tech Hub?
It helps you warm up with fresh ideas, encourages you to become an entrepreneur. A whole team of cheerleaders is present at the start. And after the first kilometer, with 41 to go, you are on your own. The system bashes you, the entrepreneur, with taxes, asks you to pre-finance VAT, expects you to know […]
- January 27, 2014
Failure(s)
In a world where 99% of startups end in failure, there’s a wealth to be learned from this deadpool. It’s prolly a hard truth to swallow, but most people who fail don’t succeed in the end And failure is only ‘marketable’ for a very small number of times. Your big break is your first movie, […]
- January 24, 2014
Content Marketing
Source: How to Create Faster Relationships with Influencers Written by Joe Pulizzi, founder of Content Marketing Institute 1. Social Media 4-1-1 For every six pieces of content shared via social media (such as Twitter): – Four are pieces of content from your influencer target that are also relevant to your audience. This means that 67 percent of […]
- January 22, 2014
Coca-Cola Small World Machine
Nevermind it is from a corporation that I am indifferent to, this ad campaign is pretty cool. “[Coca Cola] connected two vending machines to each other—one in India and one in Pakistan. These machines allowed people to talk, “touch” hands, trace drawings together, and dance with each other. That Coca-Cola had the audacity to connect […]