The platform prioritized growth at all costs rather than a set of values The latest Facebook struggles are clear proof that past a certain scale, tech’s “Move fast and break things” motto is not actually breaking things—it’s breaking people, and it needs to be stopped. This comes following The New York Times op-ed by Facebook co-founder Chris […]
To Succeed at Business You Need a Startup Mindset. Scalability, innovation and disruption come at a high cost. Startups are born to scale. They’re created to search for and validate a scalable business model in a way that can have a major impact on the market or how a problem has traditionally been solved. The […]
Positioning may seem simple on the surface, but few people give it the time it deserves. “Positioning” is a term that gets thrown around a lot but can often be confused with other marketing activities.“Very few startups have a firm grasp of what exactly positioning is, why it’s important and how to do it,” says April Dunford, […]
Webby Awards executive director Claire Graves recommends taking a page out of Gritty and Glossier’s book to create a more powerful social media footprint. As you grow your business you want to meet your customers where they are, and that means creating an online presence that is unmistakably you. When brands try to contort themselves […]
Mainly because the technology isn’t ready yet. Are you worried your job is going to be taken by a robot? You needn’t be if you work for Amazon, which has dismissed the idea of fully-automated warehouses becoming a reality any time soon. According to Amazon’s director of robotics fulfilment, Scott Anderson, such technology in its current […]
