Entrepreneurship

[continued from chapter 7]

Our next shot is a product called OpportunityInbox and it’s essentially twitter for opportunities.

We invite about 20 people to try it, but most just don’t have anything to post. One of the funded TechStars teams…

I’ve got exciting news to share. We’ve closed a seed round of investment to build Timehop into the ultimate digital history experience.

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A recap: We came into Techstars convinced that our MVP (minimal viable product) was just a rebuild of Facebook Groups with the right messaging/landing page on top to fit the classifieds use case.

[continued from chapter 1] …so we had a concept for a ‘build your own craigslist’ that would take over the world. After talking through the concept in detail with a few trusted friends and advisors, there was only one thing left to do: actually build something.

As you may know, Benny and I have killed off Friendslist and refocused our efforts on 4SquareAnd7yearsAgo/Timehop. The Friendslist product was live for about 6 months. In that time we disproved our core hypothesis: that we can compel people to…

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There are three types of programmers.

Nope, this isn’t the beginning of a joke about binary numbers, I promise! Instead it’s the conclusion I reached after a great…

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The City that has everything is still missing one thing: technical talent.

New York is flush with investors, incubators, and mentorship programs. But the lack…

New Work City (NWC) is one of the most important hubs of the NYC technology scene.