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Subscription boxes can be a tough business. Most of these startups shine brightly as they burn...
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It’s hard to get paid to do what you love. Perhaps no one understands this better than...
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Startups exist to develop new solutions to problems. But many of society’s biggest problems...
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Ad-fraud is one of the most profitable activities for organized crime today. The scammers are...
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Startup culture has crazy and contradictory views about failure. As founders we are told to fail fast, but also to never give up. We are told to follow our vision, but be ready to pivot. Somehow this macho-bullshit culture of “I never really fail and ‘m not afraid of failure.” has become dominant amount founders. But it’s the result of denial. Trivializing failure is a way of not thinking about it’s effects.
The truth is that failure sucks. Failure is painful. Failure …
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We’ve been talking about smart homes and smart cities for a long time. However, it turns out...
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Whenever you hear someone claim that the Japanese will never do something for unspecified...
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Twenty years ago, we all thought that starting a startup required a special and rare kind of...
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The insurance industry has proven very resistant to innovation. In fact, it has not really changed...
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Hardware is hard. In fact, sometimes the simplest and most straightforward ideas turn out to be...
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Having a free product tier is a time-proven way for startups to get a foot in the door by giving...
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Japanese fashion is unique, and so is the entire Japanese fashion industry. Today I would like to...
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