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Growth is getting hard…
from intensive competition, consolidation, and saturation by @andrewchenGrowth is getting hard from intensive competition, consolidation, and saturation"The reason for the above is that there are multiple trends – happening right now – that impede growth for [...]
Sobre la buena vida
Dos entradas para pensar… soy de los toca pelotas de "tenemos suerte".O de los que dicen que la cosa va bien, que podría ir mejor… pero que podría ir peor y por tanto prefiero no [...]
The Scale Fallacy
The Scale Fallacy (And How I Learned the Value of Success That Was Steady, Not Spectacular)Services businesses don’t scale because they are based on manpower: to double your revenue, you need to double the hours [...]
Los agujeros negros del progreso: clusters globales de innovación
@sintetia Los agujeros negros del progreso: clusters globales de innovación–> …las universidades y centros públicos de investigación tienen un rol significativo: en Barcelona dichos agentes registran el 17’3% de las patentes mientras que en Madrid aportan un [...]
The Really Good Guide to Email Design
via Growth Hackers Origen: The Really Good Guide to Email Design (+ Bonus Checklist) | Campaign Monitor Check: Subject Line •Is longer better? •What about symbols in subject lines? •Things to keep in mind when [...]
To Grow Faster, Hit Pause
To Grow Faster, Hit Pause — and Ask These Questions from Stripe’s COO | First Round Review“A lot of companies don’t decide how they want to grow until they’re well into their growth phase,” she says. “For [...]
Psychd: A new user psychology framework for increasing funnel conversion (Guest Post) at andrewchen
Origen: Psychd: A new user psychology framework for increasing funnel conversion (Guest Post) at andrewchen Every element of a webpage either inspires us by giving us more units of Psych or overwhelms us by depleting [...]
7 Habits of Tech-Savvy Teams – The Mission
via @ChadGrills from themission.co _ The Seven Habits of Tech-Savvy TeamsA quick recap of the seven habits of tech-savvy teams:Write well.Time management is vital.Use the best tech. Discard the rest.Compete with who you were yesterday, not with each [...]
Step aside Silicon Valley, there is a new tech hub in town
Step aside Silicon Valley, there is a new tech hub in town | World Economic ForumDeep tech accounted for $1.3 billion of European venture investments in 2015, delivered in 82 rounds, up from $289 million, [...]
The Friendship of David & Goliath
@daphnipolis uses to send a weekly newsletter, always interesting but with an editorial I think they do not publish in the internet… so I will, as it is a very good article, interesting as it [...]
Spanish entrepreneur ecosystem is Great Again
and that's even without coming to Valencia… imagine if they did!!daphni newsletter: what daphni has learnt about Spanish Ecosystem and must-reads of the weekAfter not having been there in 7 years, I almost didn’t recognize [...]
Co-workers and makers: New public policies and corporate strategies for the city
LSE Business Review – Co-workers and makers: New public policies and corporate strategies for the cityOur seven propositions to make communities more open, sustainable and inclusive:More emphasis should be put on ‘infra-organisations’, i.e. transparent platforms designed for independent [...]
Innovation, Change, and the Rest of Your Life (Steve Blank)
As we’ll see, information does not mean experience, maturity or wisdom.Reading about, hearing about, and learning about how to build a successful company is not the same as having done it. Innovation, Change, and the Rest [...]
Ooooh…that founder narrative
by @asanwal in CB insights newsletter.The idea that tech startup founders take a bunch of financial risk when starting up is on average pretty BS. It's generally manufactured cuz it's great for PR.Let's understand the risk. Most [...]
Why Entrepreneurs Should (Occasionally) Think Like VCs – Leaders Fund
The most dangerous thing a company can do is miscalculate where on the spectrum it exists and what it can realistically achieve on its current course. Time and time again companies that believe themselves to [...]
Why Companies Are Not Startups, by Steve Blank
The Enterprise: Business Model ExecutionWhy Companies Are Not Startups – Startup Grind – Mediuman enterprise is:A company is a permanent organization designed to execute a repeatable and scalable business model.Once you understand that existing companies [...]
Joined Airbnb at 52, What I Learned About Age, Wisdom, and the Tech Industry
being an intern publicly and a mentor privately was essential intergenerational learning is especially important to Boomers, as we are likely to live 10 years longer than our parents, yet power in a digital society has [...]
The best way to manage people is to not manage them at all
“Compassionate people ask for what they need. They say no when they need to, and when they say yes, they mean it. They’re compassionate because their boundaries keep them out of resentment.” ~ Brené BrownBy @Sofiaqt [...]
9 Employee Engagement Ideas Your Team Will Love
by @officevibe1. Help With Personal GrowthOffer coachingOffer coursesEncourage development2. Implement Continuous FeedbackGive feedbackCollect feedbackAct on feedback3. Make Work FunHave funOrganize team building activitiesPlan an event4. Give Employees A VoiceHave monthly one-on-onesGive frequent praiseDo frequent surveys5. [...]
How to run your small business with free open source software | CIO
Origen: How to run your small business with free open source software | CIO Featured software: Open source office productivity suites OpenOffice LibreOffice NeoOffice Calligra Open source finance and accounting applications GnuCash TurboCASH xTuple [...]
Intel Disrupted (by Steve Blank)
Intel Disrupted: Why large companies find it difficult to innovate and what they can do about itFirst, companies bought into the false premise that they exist to maximize shareholder value — which said “keep the stock price [...]
¿Cómo compran online los Baby Boomers, la Generación X y los Millennials? | LUXONOMY
…la Generación X ha realizado el mayor número de transacciones online que cualquier otro grupo (18.6), frente a los Millennials (15.6) y Baby Boomers (15.1) Esto se debe a que el primer grupo es más estable económicamente, [...]
Necesitamos alternativas a Facebook, la gran ‘caja tonta’ de internet
Sí, se impone volver a los blogs (y a los sistemas independientes de valoración de contenidos).Lo ideal sería que las personas construyeran grandes comunidades en línea y participaran en la esfera pública sin permitir que [...]
8 great small business productivity and collaboration apps
1. Active Inbox 2. Asana 3. Google Calendar 4. Google Keep 5. Nimble 6. ProsperWorks 7. Todoist 8. Trello Origen: 8 great small business productivity and collaboration apps | CIO
“I really want to be able to use this for mail while sitting on the toilet” ~Steve Jobs | appletalk:entremaqueros
Origen: “I really want to be able to use this for mail while sitting on the toilet” ~Steve Jobs | appletalk:entremaqueros The story of the iPad goes way back beyond before the phone. It started [...]
UXPressia: nuestro aliado secreto – (by @antropología20 Blog)
UXpressia es una herramienta en línea que facilita la construcción de mapas de experiencias, “User Personas” y Mapas de Impacto, para su uso en procesos de análisis y mejora de la experiencia del cliente. En [...]
Global tax rules set for overhaul as states seek to avoid new trade war
Governments agreed in Paris that the new rules would apply not only to digital service companies like search engines, social media platforms and cloud computing services but also more traditional companies selling directly to end [...]
How Will You Measure Your Life? ( @HarvardBiz )
Your decisions about allocating your personal time, energy, and talent ultimately shape your life’s strategy. "No me da la vida" Origen: HBR – How Will You Measure Your Life? (by Clayton M. Christensen) I have [...]
💭 The real reason tech companies want regulation – ( by @azeem in @ExponentialView )
The world’s largest tech companies have started to clamour for regulation in this hugely under-regulated sector. Origen: 💭 The real reason tech companies want regulation - Exponential View The tech industry got a speed-up with [...]
Comentando: El lado oscuro del aumento de dispositivos tecnológicos en las aulas (en @techreview_es )
No te fíes de un artículo que confunde las herramientas digitales de aprendizaje con las herramientas de aprendizaje digital. Las herramientas de aprendizaje digital se definen como "páginas web, aplicaciones, tutoriales online, juegos online y [...]
11 must-watch movies about Facebook, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Theranos and more ( via @TechRepublic )
Origen: 11 must-watch movies about Facebook, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Theranos, and more - TechRepublic The Great Hack The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates Bombshell: The Hedy [...]
Forget thinking “outside the box”. This is why the box is useful (by @siftedeu )
…‘design thinking’ often misses a lot of the business realities and leaves them as problems for others to solve. This institutionalises the typically high failure rate in innovation. … ~ Todd Rovak Origen: Forget thinking [...]
¿Te molesta que el artista no te pueda/quiera explicar su obra?
Me gusta que las obras tengan propósito. ¿Te gusta que te expliquen un cuadro o una escultura? ¿O prefieres imaginar las razones motivos y objeto de la obra? Para mi, en el arte "moderno" es [...]