Business -
Priya Anand explains how hackers were able to bypass online security setups at 34 banks across Europe and Asia, and why they're next target could be...
AlleyTalk -
We hear about the Steve Jobses and Jerry Yangs who first led the charge in the brave new world of tech. Let’s not forget that they didn’t do it alone. What about the people who turned their backs on traditional industry...
Inside the Code -
Make an app that texts you every time Brad Pitt tweets.
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Advice -
So you are building a new product. Great! However, one of the worst mistakes you can make is to wait for it to be done before thinking about how you are going to market it. You should be thinking about how you will reach users and...
Accelerators -
The company is called One Month, investors include Winklevoss Capital, Innovation Works, Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst, Start Fund, Oliver Jung, Lew Moorman, Y Combinator, FundersClub, and the crowdfunding platform WeFunder,...
AlleyTalk -
This month’s NY Enterprise Tech Meetup was a special one, as the group joined forces with the June Information Security Meetup, with enterprise covering the first half with two extended presentations, and Info Security having a...
Advice -
In my years of advising startups and occasional investing, I’ve seen many great ideas start and fail, but the right team always seems to make good things happen, even without the ultimate idea. That’s why investors say they invest...
AlleyTalk - You may think that all co-working spaces are the same, or that they’re at least somewhat interchangeable. Then there are other considerations like, besides the obvious (costs), what are the benefits of simply renting a desk in the...
Advice -
“Pre-dodgeball I went through 3-4 years thinking I was going to meet some magical engineer who would build all the stuff I was thinking about. I’m still a really sh***y programmer…but I know enough to hack a prototype...
Advice -
One of the most confusing things when you set out to learn technical skills is figuring out WHAT to learn. And nowhere is this truer than when it comes time to pick your first programming language.
Ruby seems cool, PHP sounds...
Advice - What's your best advice for a fellow founder looking to recruit top engineering talent?
Include Them in Decisions
"Top engineers are more than coding machines. They often have valuable insight into the production and usability of...
Advice -
With a shortage of quality development talent, many founders have turned to development shops in order to start building their product.
At Terrible Labs, we have the opportunity to chat with many founders about how to get their...
Advice -
Spotify discussed “Scaling Mobile at Spotify,” at their New York City office with three speakers, all of whom work on Spotify’s mobile team. They covered how the massive growth of mobile has resulted in a need to make it their...
Advice -
Many entrepreneurs work hard on the proof of concept (technical), but skip any proof of the business model (revenue flow). In other words, once they are convinced that the product works, they assume their price, sales channel and...
Advice -
Even just a quick cruise of top startup blogs makes one thing pretty clear If you’re a non-programmer, a “non-technical co-founder” if you will, then you are gonna have to move mountains to convince some programmer that...
AlleyTalk -
You know America is starting to wake up to the importance of something when there is a segment on “The Today Show” about it. We were thrilled to see at the end of December that “Today” correspondent and women’s rights...