February 2012
9 posts
sharypic releases iPhone app for event photo...
sharypic has just released its free iPhone app in the App Store. The sharypic app lets you take and share photos for an event, and discover and enjoy the best photos of public events (concerts, festivals, sports events, conferences etc.) nearby or around the world, most recent or most popular. The iPhone app fits sharypic’s strategy well and complements the original sharypic event photo...
Time Management for Startups
Time management isn’t just about making sure you don’t miss a deadline. Better time management helps you to choose which priorities to focus on; it helps you to be more effective; and it helps you to remain motivated.
Many time management techniques were developed for the corporate environment. The underlying assumption is that you have a clearly defined role and goals, and that there are people...
HBS: Persistence Leads to Startup Success
Harvard Business School undertook a recent study to determine the factors that lead to success in startups and, while nothing succeeds like success, a previous failure can still help an entrepreneur make it.
Paul Gompers and Josh Lerman studied over 30 years of data from venture funded businesses under the title “Performance Persistence in Entrepreneurship”. If a business went public,...
Acquiring Customers: Talk by Florian Heinemann at...
In this talk Florian Heinemann (CEO, Rocket Internet) shares his insights into the ways that a good business analytics concept is essential to your growth.
Florian’s message from his presentation at HackFwd’s Build 0.8 is straightforward: understand who your key customers are, the ones who are responsible for the highest lifetime value, and tailor your product around these people. The execution...
Europe Embraces Entrepreneurship
Historically, Europe has been viewed as the quieter sibling in the international family of entrepreneurship. Commentators have pointed to a higher degree of risk aversion, the difficulties of raising finance, and even differences between European education systems and the education systems in the US and Asia as reasons for this reticence. These differences have been eroding, however, and the...
Understanding your users - Jonathan Briggs
Jonathan Briggs, co-founder of Hyper Island and a HackFwd Referrer, issues a rallying cry: “put users at the heart of your products.”
In this talk, Jonathan leads us through his years of experience with user modelling, some formal and some less so. What he has learned and is keen to impart is that too often we don’t think of “users” as real people. He gives the example of the Google image search...
HackFwd announces Infogram
Latvian Infogr.am is the latest addition to HackFwd’s startups. Infogr.am let’s you create professionally designed infographics in minutes, and the startup aims to fundamentally change the way people work with visual information online. In a similar fashion that you can snap a photo and share it on your social networks, you can now make a statement or an argument graphically and share...
Starting up when the economy’s down
Entrepreneurs who launch their startups in a downturn have to get used to being thought of somewhere along the scale from “brave” to “reckless” but in truth, the state of the economy has very little impact on whether a startup will thrive. Apple and Microsoft famously began in a recession; and 16 out of the 30 Dow Jones corporations started in an economic downturn. If you have a marketable idea...
Om Malik: Who Says Startups Are Easy? Talk from...
Om Malik is the founder of GigaOm. In this presentation from HackFwd’s Build 0.8 event, he takes a long-term perspective and talks about why startups are hard.
“We all think that startups are so cool, but there is a lot of work involved in them. [Having] seen at least 4 bubbles in my life, I feel privileged at least in that I can see patterns,” he explains, and he spends the first half of...