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Topology Eyewear at Launch Festival 2017
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How to Design and Build a Hyper-Fast Test Automation Stack
medium.com
Why you need real-time end-to-end test automation, and advice for the best products to create it. Sam HatoumBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing Sep 18, …
Is Your Testing Strategy Back-to-Front?
medium.com
How to tell if you’re applying quality backwards. Sam HatoumBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing Aug 14, 2016 As both a consultant specializing in software …
Showpad closes $50M Series C to keep growing its SaaS sales productivity platform
TechCrunch - Natasha Lomas
SaaS startup Showpad which has built a platform designed to improve other businesses’ sales productivity has closed a $50 million Series C funding round, led by Insight Venture Partners — with Insight’s
A terrible myth is surrounding millennials and entrepreneurship
Business Insider - Derek Thompson
The share of people under 30 who own a business has fallen by 65 percent since the 1980s and is now at a quarter-century low, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of Federal Reserve data. These
Indiegogo Could Soon Dominate Equity Crowdfunding
Fortune - Jeremy Quittner
Later this year, Indiegogo will take a giant leap into the new world of equity crowdfunding. And though it has yet to reveal its exact plan, the …
Why Snapchat Is the New LinkedIn for Tech Startups
Inc Magazine - By Alex Moazed
While Snapchat is by design a communication mobile app platform, it has also evolved into a social content platform. Snapchat's core interaction is simple; users take a picture or video and send that to
The Most Important Job of the Product Owner
medium.com
Should a Product Manager also do UX? Sure! But they must ensure they do the most critical element of their own job first. Chris …
RT @OpenViewVenture : .@HubSpot ’s @markroberge on scaling your team before reaching product market fit https://t.co/XADyzXnStw
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What is Product/Market Fit, and Why Should SaaS Companies Care? https://t.co/DptZ8UOJtc
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How Do You Know If You've Achieved Product/Market Fit?
sachinrekhi.com - Sachin Rekhi
Marc Andreessen initially introduced the concept of product/market fit in this post published in 2007. It was an incredibly helpful notion to explain …
Why You Should Find Product-Market Fit Before Sniffing Around For Venture Money
Fast Company - By Andy Rachleff, CEO of Wealthfront
When you first start out the only thing that matters is finding a cohort of customers who truly value what you offer. Growth alone means next to nothing. Many early-stage entrepreneurs who come to me advice
Five steps of startup go to-market
SlideShare - Guy Turner
Product market fit is achieved by finding the successful intersection of product iteration, competition/market and go-to-market strategy. Finding product market fit (PMF), however, is hard when these factors
How to Growth Hack Your Product Market Fit and Get Customer Attention
business2community.com - Beth Romelus
What makes growth hacking different from other marketing techniques is that it is focused on finding the most unique, effective, and inexpensive …
Where Product/Market Fit Breaks Down
Forbes - Bryan Stolle
A tweet from GrowthHackers caught my eye recently — “Our #product market fit and NPS are off the scale, but we’re struggling to grow. Any ideas why?” Like most tools in a well-stocked tool chest, a specific
If you really want to be more like a startup, you must optimize for Product/Market Fit.
medium.com
Every big brand and agency seems to want to act “like a startup.” But that doesn’t mean what they tell you it does. Chris …
The most popular TED Talks of all time
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Riding in Audi's 150MPH self-driving RS 7, the anti-Google car
Engadget - Aaron Souppouris
Until last week, the sum of my autonomous driving experience was sitting behind the wheel while a car parked itself, and the sum of my track experience involved squeezing my lanky frame into a comically
The Best User Interfaces Of 2014
Fast Company - By Mark Wilson
In terms of smartphones and tablet interfaces, Google may have stolen 2014 with their landmark Material Design philosophy. But outside of that space, things are about to get weird. Really weird. We sit
Stripe is the breakthrough startup of 2014
Mashable - Seth Fiegerman
Patrick and John Collison were walking home from dinner one night in October 2009, talking yet again about their latest idea for an online payments company, when John stopped and turned to his brother.
Bitsbox Debuts Monthly Coding Projects That Teach Kids To Build Simple Apps
TechCrunch - Sarah Perez
When Bitsbox co-founder Scott Lininger learned to code, it was on a TRS-80 color computer his mom and dad bought him when he was a kid. He says he taught himself coding by copying from the book that came
Skype Co-Founder Backs Wire, A New Communications App Launching Today On iOS, Android And Mac
TechCrunch - Sarah Perez
Skype co-founder Janus Friis is backing a new communications app called Wire, out now for iOS, Android and Mac OS X. The app itself is the reimagining of how a communications tool like Skype should operate
After Surviving A Wonga Loan, Marvel Raises $820K To Let You Turn Sketches Into App Prototypes
TechCrunch - Steve O'Hear
Back in April, Marvel — the UK startup that lets you turn sketches into app “prototypes” — had just one and a half month’s runway left after burning through the majority of a £60,000 investment from Haatch.
Amazon Starts Shipping The Fire TV Stick, Its “Fastest Selling” Hardware Yet
TechCrunch - Sarah Perez
Amazon announced this morning that its Chromecast competitor called the Fire TV Stick, which the company also revealed is the “fastest-selling Amazon device ever,” is now shipping to customers on a first-come,
Mesmerizing Videos of Ballerinas Preparing Their Pointe Shoes
The Atlantic - Olga Khazan
Hours of crunching, sewing, and ripping go into readying a piece of footwear that lasts for just one performance. I think I've found my ASMR trigger: watching YouTube videos of ballet dancers preparing
Nest's Smart Thermostat and Smoke Detector Just Got Smarter
Mashable - Samantha Murphy
Nest Labs, which Google recently acquired for $3.2 billion, opened its smart Nest thermostat and smoke detector to developers in June to make more products work together in the home, from washing machines
Google Announces a New Phone, Tablet, and Android 'Lollipop'
WIRED - Mat Honan
Google announced a few new Nexus devices today—the new Nexus 6 phone, the Nexus 9 tablet, and the Nexus Player, a streaming set-top box for movies …

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Topology Eyewear at Launch Festival 2017

How to Design and Build a Hyper-Fast Test Automation Stack

Is Your Testing Strategy Back-to-Front?

Showpad closes $50M Series C to keep growing its SaaS sales productivity platform

A terrible myth is surrounding millennials and entrepreneurship

Indiegogo Could Soon Dominate Equity Crowdfunding

Why Snapchat Is the New LinkedIn for Tech Startups

The Most Important Job of the Product Owner

RT @OpenViewVenture : .@HubSpot ’s @markroberge on scaling your team before reaching product market fit https://t.co/XADyzXnStw

What is Product/Market Fit, and Why Should SaaS Companies Care? https://t.co/DptZ8UOJtc

How Do You Know If You've Achieved Product/Market Fit?

Why You Should Find Product-Market Fit Before Sniffing Around For Venture Money

Five steps of startup go to-market

How to Growth Hack Your Product Market Fit and Get Customer Attention

Where Product/Market Fit Breaks Down

If you really want to be more like a startup, you must optimize for Product/Market Fit.

The most popular TED Talks of all time

Riding in Audi's 150MPH self-driving RS 7, the anti-Google car

The Best User Interfaces Of 2014

Stripe is the breakthrough startup of 2014

Bitsbox Debuts Monthly Coding Projects That Teach Kids To Build Simple Apps

Skype Co-Founder Backs Wire, A New Communications App Launching Today On iOS, Android And Mac

After Surviving A Wonga Loan, Marvel Raises $820K To Let You Turn Sketches Into App Prototypes

Amazon Starts Shipping The Fire TV Stick, Its “Fastest Selling” Hardware Yet

Mesmerizing Videos of Ballerinas Preparing Their Pointe Shoes

Nest's Smart Thermostat and Smoke Detector Just Got Smarter

Google Announces a New Phone, Tablet, and Android 'Lollipop'