Eminem once said, “I had to go to that place to get to this one.” I love this saying. It refers to the fact that there are stepping stones in our lives, little things that happen along the way, and it’s hard to make the connections that lead to success…

Let’s talk about when we need to start paying the true believers working for our startup. With actual dollars. I’m going to be nuanced on this one because I used to do something similar. In fact, it’s pretty common. At the very beginning of the startup cycle, unless the founder…

I’m quitting my startup journey, and it’ll make you rethink whether now is your time to start a startup. — Chutzpah is the confidence to do the impossible, daring to want what others can’t dream of, or going after “impossible goals” — Gil Kerbs This is my fifth, and final, post in a series called The Chutzpah Series, in which I will share the methods and learnings of the journey…

Designing a new user interface in 2019 is harder than you think — You’re in the business of selling pizza. Everyone loves pizza. It’s fast and easy. The demand is high. It’s the classic American staple. But you’ve got a ton of competitors, marketing is tougher than you thought, rent is getting higher, the app designs are stale, every week is a 52-week…

The CEOs of YouTube and Twitter are being far more cautious in addressing the problems of their platforms than they were in building them — Jack Dorsey and Susan Wojcicki seem to have little in common, aside from their jobs—running two of the biggest platforms on the internet. Wojcicki, CEO of YouTube, comes across as an accomplished, even-keeled professional who blends in and shuns the spotlight. A Harvard graduate from a distinguished Silicon Valley family…

Video games and social media require human users to enter into a procedural loop known as flow — Beginning in the late 1960s, a new group of technologists (including Douglas Engelbart’s team at Stanford, Alan Kay and others at Xerox PARC, and later Steve Jobs and his colleagues at Apple) set about to redefine the computer as a medium for representation and communication. …

They say that every great business addresses a real customer need. If expressing your customer need has ever felt slippery, this is for you. — As Steve Jobs said: you have to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology. Jobs understood that when you try to reverse-engineer the need statement from the product, it’s too easy to lose touch with reality. After six months of intense product development, this is exactly…

From AI to Emails, let’s see which startups we should keep an eye on — There are more startups popping up than ever before. With an influx of VC funds, incubators and accelerators in the market, everyone’s talking about which startups will rise into the coveted unicorn club and beyond. With the rise of technology, its no doubt that new startups are looking to create…

How to make money outside of your day job — Over the last 10 years of my life, I’ve delved into a huge variety of ventures. Some have been a success, others not so much — but the result is I’ve learned a lot. …