Startups

I was meeting a classmate from college after many years who is now a senior engineer at the Mountainview office of Google. We were toasting his 10 year anniversary…

After leaving Athos, where I led Design for almost four years, I was craving some time for solo-traveling, writing and catching up with friends and family. Upon my…

Thrilled to be on Mike Davis’s show Humans Of Purpose this month chatting about all things wine, entrepreneurship and startups. Mike has managed to interview some…

We’ve all felt it. A less than healthy workplace, team, or organization. Maybe it feels like a lack of alignment. Maybe it’s an unhealthy culture. Maybe it pops up…

If you run an early stage startup, you’re probably familiar with the catch-22 of raising your first round: It’s hard to get traction until you’ve got some cash to…

I’ve been an internet entrepreneur since 1997. I co-founded the Apple Music Group in 1995, worked at N2K (one of the first online music companies), co-founded…

We're back in Berkeley! Today marks the start of our 3rd successive Venture Capital Unlocked: Deal Camp, our one-week crash course on the ins and out of

At the beginning of the XXth century, Jewish refuges, which had immigrated from the Russian Empire following the Kishinev ‘pogrom’, had built the first Israeli…

As we approach our first year of working together, we decided it was time to start laying out (publicly) the principles that we work by in order to help other…

Over the past few months my co-founder and I have been building a company that develops ML-based mobile-user engagement tools for app developers. We’ve just…

Have you subscribed to The Build Cycle podcast yet? It’s on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, Podbean and lots more…just search for it wherever you listen to ‘casts.…

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Contrary Capital is a pre-seed, university-focused VC firm with Venture Partners at each of the 40+ top entrepreneurship universities, including UMD. Each campus is…

University of Maryland has long been the home of incredible innovation and entrepreneurship. We’ve seen massive tech startups from College Park, like Oculus and…

MLG Blockchain Consulting is committed to supporting unique and upcoming ICOs on their journey towards successfully integrating their blockchain technology. And we…

We really value team culture. And no, that doesn’t mean a fancy office. It means working with people who are experts in mobile technology, have a wide spanning…

Here is our Q3 2017 summary report on the Retail Technology startup sector. The following report includes a startup landscape overview, graphical trends with…

I am definitely not built to be an employee. A concept I didn’t fully appreciate until I found myself in a behemoth of an organization. Unfortunately my wife and…

While preparing for a job interview at a startup can be a daunting task, it can lead to employment at the startup, which can be quite rewarding considering its…

When you take the plunge and get started, it is invigorating. It is also challenging, and at times it is a total motherfucker. Where there is a startup, there is a…