Startups

One of the unavoidable topics we talk about when we are making products or talking about products is the user experience, which gives us the feeling of being both real and imaginative, both subjective and objective. We say we value the user experience, but suddenly we find everyone talking about the user experience, much as it once talked about "Everyone is a product manager." Many people misunderstand the true meaning of the user experience, and even use it as a rhetoric to judge a product. We have had such doubts, what exactly is the user experience? The user experience we want and do is really what the user wants or recognizes, or is it that we are not ...

I think almost every enterprise should know very well that innovation can determine their success or failure: if it is hard to sustain the pace of innovation, then it will decline, and the vitality of innovation forever will endure. But according to Douglas Merrill, founder and CEO of ZestFinance, the financial services technology firm in the United States, companies can basically stay alive and innovate as long as they can do three things. It is worth mentioning that, this person was former Google's chief information officer (CIO), vice president of engineering. Here is his ...

Programming seems to have become a fashionable thing. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg once said he is also going to learn programming. And the Estonian government announced a project that hopes to have all 6-year-old children in the country learn to program. To benefit from this demand, many start-up companies have begun to provide programming courses. The Gneral Assembly, which specializes in off-line programming training, is in London and both start recruiting staff and prepare for the Berlin branch ...

"The development effort goes beyond just writing code," says Dan Frost from the 3EV site, who wrote an article detailing a few things that should be noticed in the development process. The original text is as follows: Developers are the main force in creating the digital world. They should not just play the role of programming tools, but should have higher requirements for their development efforts. So, what are the ways developers can improve their development capabilities? Now let me talk about my idea. My advice may not be comprehensive, but I hope I can bring you some help. ...

I think we all know that a start-up company can not follow the example of a large company in many aspects. However, this does not mean that the model of a startup company will certainly lead to higher efficiency. Large companies should also strive to avoid being disturbed by the mentality of a startup company. The author believes that large companies should work hard to avoid the following six kinds of "entrepreneurial disease": the reaction does not have to be too fast Any business will easily enter the "fire drills mode", and many start-up companies will respond quickly to market opportunities. However, when you start a new business, you need to plan. And from a strategic point of view

How to adapt to the changing role from founder to CEO is a challenge that all entrepreneurs, including Microsoft, Yahoo, microsoft, hashtag, tahoma, arial and Zuckerberg, need to consider. One of the most difficult things for first-time entrepreneurs and "new to the CEO" is the role they should play in the company's growth, and all the CEOs, whether they are the founders or not, have their own Focus on ... And this ...

First of all, we want to discuss the first topic: why do we have to standardize the system? Let me say two stories. The first story, at the doorstep of each KFC restaurant, is a white-bearded old man called Harlan Shady, the amiable old man who was the founder of KFC. In 1930 he developed a fried chicken containing eleven mysterious recipes (in fact there is no secret, controversial, but not discussed here). Harlan.Santix is ​​a devoted person to study the food, when he is responsible for the brand, KFC is just in his ...

State of the Startup is an entrepreneurial event that has been held monthly in New York. And this event every month to invite celebrities in the business circle to share such as industry information, trends and entrepreneurial experience. And at one event, Matias Corea, co-founder and chief designer at Behance, a startup, talked about the often-wrong design mistakes made by start-ups, and the topic raised heated discussions over the stage. So now, we put Corea's main point of view for everyone. Absolutely can not let production ...

Some people say that the Internet is a Scorpio World War II, from Scorpio's "Tencent Ma Huntang, 360 Zhou Hongyi, Baidu Robin Li, Ding Yi Ding Yi, Yahoo Yang Zhiyuan, Sohu Zhang Chaoyang, and Microsoft Bill Gates Scorpio ..." It seems the Internet has almost become Scorpio The next, so that Scorpio is an obvious ruler of the Internet, I believe, so I came. And who will laugh at the end of this war, no one knows, but I believe that late entry may not be a loser! In 2011, I set up SixApple Tech company, then ...

Abraham Maslow, a famous psychologist in the United States, mentions in his famous theory of hierarchy of needs that people must pursue the so-called Maslow only after some basic physiological needs and needs for security, love and dignity are met Self-actualization. As an entrepreneur, I personally think that as the demand, the pursuit of the company is actually hierarchical. Here, I divided the pursuit of the company into five levels according to the relationship between employer and employee, that is, five kinds of realm. ...

Originally in Silicon Valley has whipped up a whiff of talent acquisition, Facebook, Google, Zynga are eagerly recruiting talented people, and usually the acquisition of talent is based on the number of pricing, the purpose of these Internet giants are usually acquired in order to obtain outstanding engineers And founders, but not for the product itself, then the acquisition of large companies for start-ups, is it good or bad? Plus if you do start-up company's purpose is to be a company, and your goal is to be acquired by a large company, Then your company is of course a good thing to be acquired. And because good people ...

This is a question that has been raised by some just now (just give you 50000, 500000, 50000000, how are you going to start a business?), Which is rare and entrepreneurial-related, so that entrepreneurs can be serious Good question to think about. And if you are ready or planning to start a business trip, then ask yourself this question. The following is our excerpt, knowing the co-founder of the network Huang (new) a year ago, I hope you can get some gains. If I have 50000 - then I first find a Niubi product manager plus a Niubi workers ...

Freelancers are not really good jobs. And most freelancers are saying they spend more time on job hunting than actual working hours. This is especially true when you're just entering an industry where you're just beginning to expand your list of clients. With the business growth, plus there will be more and more new and old customers move closer to you, this situation is actually gradually changing. So, how do we Dapu East to get customers and then please them? At this time not only by virtue of our final music and audio products, and throughout the creation of the middle course ...

In many cases, team members have to face a new task, that is, in the face of a purpose (do), usually will be straightforward solutions to the details of the solution, rather than to go first to understand the goal. For example, a product manager as usual will tell you: "I need a big button", "do not use buttons to link" such requirements (usually a solution). Then, the designer will habitually think of the solution details from the point of view of usability or aesthetics: "If the buttons are not good looking," "Links should actually be used because ...". ...

SEOmoz head of customer development department, has written such a "make 26 hours a day" one. In the article, he said the current startup culture is concerned about overtime culture, suggesting that we make the most efficient use of time. Productivity is something that makes people addictive and the feeling that something can be controlled is a very good experience. I really like this feeling, so I would rather have 26 hours a day, I can not wait for more than the day before the pursuit of a little more. But productivity is not that easy to fix. As far as I'm concerned, the free time is getting ...

According to the related news, Founder Institute (FI), the world's largest incubator for business incubators, conducted statistics and analysis on successful entrepreneurs and discovered several typical characteristics that people usually possess. If you say what is the number of successful entrepreneurs, several excellent quality. I will put these three first: wisdom, creativity, hard work. According to Founder Institute (FI) statistical analysis we can see that these characteristics and entrepreneurial chances of success and not much. In fact, the basic business success or failure is not ...

Entrepreneurship seems to have been myth, must be big things, must stir the world. In fact, most of the time entrepreneurs are based on their own brainwave ideas, and then began to invest time and energy to build a powerful product. 　　In fact, the first thing to do with a valuable product has not been done, and they have not ensured that the user needs they find are reliable. 　　And its several months later, the money also smashed, the advertisement also cast, daughter-in-law son also ran, hair also fell, found that no user to pay compared to the first calm down to think about how to go the right first step. 1, to find ...

Today, many employees in large companies will choose to leave the company, open their own entrepreneurial path, and the author is a 6-year Huawei work in Huawei, 2 years ago, with a big career vision, the author and a few friends left Huawei, hoping to break a path to start a business. After two years, the author's entrepreneurial experience is like a dog blood drama, all kinds of TV dramas in the classic Bridge has happened to him. 　The author of the two years of entrepreneurship in the process of all kinds of reflection summed up for the following 14 points, I hope to be able to entrepreneurial or entrepreneurial friends are some inspiration. ...

Today, entrepreneurship is not a fresh word, how to communicate with the people who need it is a very important proposition for the people who are going or are already on the road to entrepreneurship, how to effectively convey their value proposition to their customers, suppliers, partners, investors and even their own team. 　　This is especially important for the founders of technology companies, who are often impressed by their stated ideas. In reality, however, this is not easy. Since people are not always able to make rational decisions, they adopt ...

Today, entrepreneurship is not a new vocabulary, the cost of starting a business in the mobile internet age is much lower than before, especially for many individual developers or small teams to start a business, this is the characteristics of this era. 　We've heard a lot of good entrepreneurs single-handedly build a product story, but many people may not know how to run the cold start problem when the product is about to complete. 　　The following summary of the product cold start process needs to do 5 things to help you knock open the door to success. 1, to identify the audience first, from the demand and product prospects, need to understand your goals ...