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Traveling the world, meeting startups: What We learned

The Next Web

We wanted to share some other trends we observed; Countries have startups that play to their strengths. Brazilians like to fiesta and have a huge bar and restaurant industry, startups like our Rio finalist We Go Out are helping people to find the best parties and events to go to tonight by showing you where your friends are checking in.

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The 5 Types of Employees You’ll Find on Your Startup Journey (and How to Manage Them)

Up and Running

He was joking, of course—your employees aren’t a bunch of animals struggling for survival at a watering hole in Tanzania—but they sure will act like it sometimes. Gazelles are far and away the most bountiful species of employee you’ll encounter on your startup safari. Managing Your Startup’s Wildlife. Herding Gazelles.

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Out of the Crisis #21: Tomas Pueyo on the hammer and the dance, political polarization, and how the pandemic will affect the way we live and work

Startup Lessons Learned

His name is Tomas Pueyo. He worked at an education startup here in Silicon Valley. And in fact, The Lean Startup is very much that. One of my old Lean Startup sayings is that metrics are people too, and it came up in my conversation with Brian Chesky, too. He was not a famous author. He wasn't a media star.