The sharing economy has gained some high-profile backers recently. A female UX expert offers tips on how to design for it. By Jessica Stillman (Editor, Women 2.0) The sharing economy may sound like an idea out of a hippie commune, but since the runaway success of Zipcar and Airbnb, the movement towards collaborative consumption has [...]
Posts Tagged "Paul Graham"
So You Want to Be the Next Zipcar? Principles of Design for the Sharing Economy
May 7, 2013 – 7:00 am
Are Startup Accelerators Helpful?
March 4, 2013 – 8:00 am
I was initially unsure whether an accelerator was right for my startup, MommaZoo. Here are five reasons I’m happy we took the plunge and are now participating in ImagineK12. By Catheryne Nicholson (Co-Founder & CEO, MommaZoo) It all started with a tweet from Paul Graham:
How I Negotiated My Startup Compensation (Equity Matters)
January 25, 2013 – 7:00 am
I recently left my job as a technical consulting manager and joined my best friends and my fiancé, Kyle, at Keen.io (I wrote about that here). This is the story of how I negotiated my compensation. By Michelle Wetzler (Director, Keen IO) When I started thinking about joining Keen, I quickly realized there is a [...]
The Hardware Renaissance (Hat Tip To The Makers)
October 24, 2012 – 10:00 am
Maker culture started out as a DIY movement… By Renee DiResta (Associate, O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures) Paul Graham wrote an interesting post today about the emergence of hardware companies in the Silicon Valley startup scene. It’s great to see an increasing number of investors get excited about physical products. I want to take a moment to [...]
Coming Up With A Business Idea (Infographic)
June 19, 2012 – 9:00 am
“Start with a high-level problem space that you’re passionate about, then narrow it down from there.” By Jessica Mah (Co-Founder & CEO, InDinero) Our friends at GiftRocket put together a very cool infographic on Paul Graham’s “Startup Ideas We’d Like to Fund”. Back in 2008, he put together 30 problem spaces he thought startups should [...]
Does Paul Graham Get What He Asks For? [Infographic]
December 23, 2011 – 7:00 am
By Kapil Kale (Co-Founder, GiftRocket) I first came across Paul Graham’s article, Startup Ideas We’d Like To Fund, in a Google search in mid-2010. Though published two years earlier, I thought the article was the most thorough compilation of problem spaces for startups to tackle anywhere on the web. Before coming up with the idea [...]
Racism and Meritocracy
November 19, 2011 – 6:00 pm
By Eric Ries (Contributing Writer, TechCrunch) Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you can’t have missed the recent dust-up over race and Silicon Valley. Like almost every discussion of diversity and meritocracy in this town, it turned ugly fast. One side says: “All I see is white men. Therefore, people like Michael Arrington must [...]
Women, Arrogance and The Next Steve Jobs
October 11, 2011 – 5:00 am
By Swathy Prithivi (Head of Corporate Development, Sonim Technologies) In “Who Will Be the Next Steve Jobs?” in the Wall Street Journal, Vinod Khosla, entrepreneur and venture capitalist extraordinaire, lists two key characteristics of “would-be revolutionaries” — unbridled confidence and arrogance. A recent tweet by Silicon Valley scholar Vivek Wadhwa says: “More than 50% of [...]
Why Female Entrepreneurs Should Apply To Y Combinator
October 9, 2011 – 6:26 pm
By Rachel Sklar (Founder, Change The Ratio) The time is once again upon us: Y Combinator applications are due tomorrow. From there, Paul Graham and company will choose the next crop of Y Combinator startups, which will converge on Silicon Valley in January 2012 to innovate, iterate, develop, learn and build — and take a [...]
Y Combinator’s Paul Graham & Great Startup Quotes (Good Reads)
October 1, 2011 – 10:29 am
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) A few weeks ago, Sue Khim (Founder & CEO of Alltuition) quipped in an interview with Women 2.0: My recommendation if you are to read any startup literature, Paul Graham influenced me the most and I liked to read what he had to say about startups. Action [...]
