Design Staff. The product design sprint: a five-day recipe for startups. Jake Knapp / Design Partner, Google Ventures. At Google Ventures, we do product design work with startups all the time. We call it a product design sprint, and it’s great for getting unstuck or accelerating projects that are already in motion. MORE >>

These days, more and more e-commerce companies are designing and sourcing their own goods.  They are bypassing a bloated, antiquated industry supply chain to offer high quality, high fashion eyeglasses that they design and source themselves at a fraction of the typical market cost (the mark-up on glasses sold at physical retailer in the U.S. MORE >>

Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia met at the Rhode Island School of Design and became roommates in San Francisco in 2007. prominent design conference was coming to town and the nearby hotels were sold out. The website is clean and very intuitive—not surprising, I guess, when two of the founders are designers.  Portfolio Companies MORE >>

Designing for the "3rd & 4th browsers" (Search & Social Media) Recent Posts life lessons, by jack handey.   It's kind of a dirty little secret of the startup industry, but there are very few good product, design, and marketing people in tech.  case in point: how come there are no graphic designer VCs? Part II! MORE >>

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 10 Tips for Writing for Designers – [link]. Fresh Package Design Inspiration for Designers – 32 Examples – [link]. billion dollars – [link]. MORE >>