Notes From The Field
Notes from the Field, March 2016 This is a weekly newsletter of what I’ve seen in real estate, both micro and macro, that I thought was interesting. Since we’re just getting this started, let me know...
View ArticleThe Career Thing Wasn’t Really Doing It For Me
An Experiment with My Own Personal Brand Completely Failed, But I’m Okay with It Figure №1: R.I.P. My dreams.I apologize in advance for the length of this. But I’m also not really sorry… that’s the...
View ArticleStay Productive: Stable Structure Meets Personalized Downtime
Dustin Moskovitz of Asana & Facebook: Nurture these Two Things to Craft a Great Work Culture by John Michael Eden on Startup Grind Two critical things bring the humane workplace to life, according...
View ArticleSalesforce Forms Research Group, Launches Einstein A.I. Platform That Works...
Above: Einstein in Salesforce's Sales Cloud Image Credit: Salesforce Salesforce today is announcing the launch of its Einstein artificial intelligence (AI) platform that’s implemented into several of...
View ArticleJust Focus On Two things:
Advice for startup entrepreneurs This post is based on the interview made by Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator, to Jessica Livingston, one of the YC founders. I saw this interview while writing...
View Article10 Factors That Determine A Great Hire’s Personal Brand
What do you look for when evaluating potential employees’ personal brands? The following answers are provided by members of Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only organization comprised of...
View ArticleBizEquity Partners With Equifax In A Bid To Democratize Business Valuations
What is your business worth? Do you have any idea? BizEquity, an online provider of business valuation big data, recently announced it has entered into a strategic partnership with Equifax (NYSE:...
View ArticleHow To Make Your International Dev Team A Competitive advantage
Image Credit: everything possible/Shutterstock Two years ago, Y Combinator cofounder Paul Graham wrote on his blog that 95% of great programmers are not from the United States. Luckily, today’s...
View ArticleOn Busyness
Image Credit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SlinkySlack: The Missing Ingredient Required For Culture Change and Innovation Whether it’s individual change or organizational change, everyone agrees that...
View ArticleUX And CX (yeah, again)
Reflections on the current state of UX Three days at UX Cambridge always sets my brain on fire. I have trouble sleeping at night for a day or two — and no, it’s not the cocktails. My head gets crowded...
View ArticleDrilling Down Into PS4 Pro’s 4K Graphics On Horizon Zero Dawn
Above: Aloy lives in a beautiful open world in Horizon: Zero Dawn. Image Credit: Sony Sony touted the 4K graphics capabilities of its PlayStation Pro video game console at its event in New York City a...
View ArticleWelcome.
Why this burning enthusiasm for Burning Man ? Just imagine… 80 000 people in the desert, experiencing for a suspended time a version of society founded on different values : creativity, caring,...
View ArticleSwiss Toni & Barbecuing
Minimum viable personas (MVPs) I hate acronyms, I really do. Acronyms are used by people who are too lazy to use proper words and by those who want to keep others out from their secret little acronym...
View ArticlePretending To Be A Startup.
Credit: https:[email protected]/* */ How to Fuck Up Your Startup’s Founding Team — Part I Little Habits That Will Help You Ruin Your Startup’s Culture A startup doesn’t have a culture. A startup is...
View ArticleYour Company Doesn’t Have To Be Bulletproof, Only “people proof”
How to organize your business to master productivity and execution I’m particularly curious and passionate for companies that are outliers on efficiency and execution. You’ve probably already heard a...
View ArticleWhy Processes
The Sully Principle — Why People Matter Sully (2016) is a Clint Eastwood film starring Tom Hanks as, well, Sully. Based on a true story, it takes us through the protagonist’s struggle of proving how...
View ArticleStep 1: Analysing The Current Site
UX Project Retrospective #2: Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy This is a retrospective article on the development of an UX exercise over the course of two weeks, focusing on an imaginary redesign...
View ArticleWhen Machine Learning Redefines Your Job, You’re Going To Like it
Image Credit: lassedesignen/Shutterstock Virtual reality may be generating most of the buzz today, but another major tech shift looms much closer on the horizon: machine learning. The technology has...
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App Marketing Rule #1: Get Featured By Apple When my wife and I set out to create a fun and educational live zoo app for animal lovers we naturally felt excited, a little nervous, and wondered like...
View ArticleHow Startup Investors Can Take Advantage Of The International Entrepreneur Rule
The Obama Administration has proposed amending the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) regulations (PDF) to allow select foreign entrepreneurs to stay in the United States for a period of two years...
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