Category: Startup
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Tracx Dashboards in Times Square
Next month marks the 8th anniversary since the registration of the tra.cx domain name. Words can’t describe the way I feel right now, after reaching yet another peak in this amazing journey, with my five partners and a dream-team of amazingly talented people making Tracx a global leader, a family and a home. For the…
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Paul Graham: Do Things that Don’t Scale
I really enjoyed reading Paul Graham‘s essay “Do Things that Don’t Scale” in which he gives counterintuitive advice, encouraging entrepreneurs to invest time in manual labor at the “larval” stage of a their startup’s life. Here are several highlights I found interesting (could also serve as a tl;dr summary for the lazy, although I recommend…
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Neither is Ice Cream
“Nobody thought it was a good idea. And I distinctly remember my colleague Evan Williams saying, ‘Well, neither is ice cream. Should we ban ice cream and all joy or can we have something that’s just fun? What’s wrong with that?’” – Biz Stone, co-founder and Creative Director of Twitter (via)
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Spring is Coming
I’m hearing of more and more people starting up new businesses with cool, innovative ideas. Spring season in the Start-up Nation is coming. The differences from the years 2000 and 2008, I think, are: Crowdfunding (Kickstarter, Headstart) Affordable IT Infrastructure (AWS, Google) Affordable and idiot-proof (read: hackable by software engineers) hardware platforms (Raspberry Pi, Arduino) and sensors…