All Startups Should Do This: Scratchpad’s Gamified Beta Signup Process
Here’s the scenario: I sign up for your beta app. You tell me you’re not ready to launch yet, but ask for my email address anyway. Since I’m a beta junkie, I comply. Two months later, you send me an...
View ArticleHands-On With Woisio, the Curated Video Discovery Platform
I’ve been following Turkey based startup Woisio ever since I first heard about it a few months back. Part of the intrigue was due to the obscure-yet-approachable nature of the startup itself: Woisio...
View ArticleSEO = Suicide
After an episode of nostalgia brought on by a marathon session of Seinfeld and Thundercats, last night, I found myself keying in a website I had long forgotten about: Mahalo.com. Mahalo, the demon...
View ArticleArt Sumo is a Daily Art Deals Website With a Social Mission
I have a confession to make: I’m horribly ignorant about art. I can’t spot the difference between a Dali and a Picasso, and I can’t, for the life of me, figure out why Jackson Pollock is so awesome...
View ArticleHacking for the Sake of Hacking
Of all the charges you can lay against VICE Magazine, being uninteresting can’t be one of them. The commodity that VICE deals in is a brand of abstract cool and hipster irony. VICE’s greatest assets is...
View ArticleWhy?
Behold the Bicymple, a chainless, two wheel unicycle that unnecessarily ‘disrupts’ something that doesn’t need to be disrupted: the bicycle. The humble bicycle has to count among the greatest of...
View ArticleLinkThing is a Simple, Lightweight Bookmarking Tool
Last week, I wrote a little rant on the bookmarking hell I currently find myself in. After struggling to find a solution that was light, nimble, and easy enough for my needs, I may have finally...
View ArticleAfter Raising $1.1M, TripFab Seeks an Exit on Flippa for $50,000
After making as much noise as could be made (including telling competitors that they will ‘shit their pants’), Costa Rican startup TripFab finds itself staring at a less than stellar exit after it put...
View ArticleAttack of the Pinterest Clones
eBay is only the latest in a long line of startups and incumbent players adopting Pinterest’s grid-based layout. While eBay’s new design has been met with some criticism (partly because of the poor...
View ArticleFaith
Why do some entrepreneurial ventures succeed where others fail? Hard work, luck, talent – these are the usual tired tropes paraded by entrepreneurs to explain their success (even though Malcolm...
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