Inside Google’s Secret Drone-Delivery Program
For two years, the company has been working to build flying robots that can deliver products across a city in a minute or two. An Atlantic exclusive. by @alexismadrigal
How do you choose your next project?
How do you decide what you should work on? @StefLewandowski
What?s After Big Data? Niche Analytics, Data Wrangling, Smart Storage
The premise of big data, at least, is easy to grasp: more and more information is being collected, stored, and analyzed, from click streams to sales records to mobile-device locations. by @gthuang
These are the 25 most popular mobile apps in America
ComScore tracks the 25 most popular apps in the US. This is an interesting slice of the App Store, as it highlights active usage, not just one-time downloads or recent popularity. by @fromedome
Finnish Startup Gets Seed Backing For Its Online Education Platform Play, Eliademy
Finnish startup CBTec, an online education platform offering free cloud-based tools for teachers and learners which launched just over a year ago, has taken in its first significant tranche of external funding from early stage Finnish VC firm Inventure. by @riptari
One thing I’ve learned since leaving Google
Perhaps the most important thing I’ve learned since I left Google is this: I am a skilled engineer, with strong technical chops and good ‘soft’ skills to help a development team perform well by @AnaUlin
An Economist Shows How Imitation Can Sometimes Beat Innovation
In economic debates, it is about as close to a mantra as you can get: Innovation is good, and faster innovation is even better. You can never have too much of it.
The only way to raise money: Make them believe
With so much noise in the market and so many companies in which VCs can invest their cash, raising money is still about the one thing it?s always been about: making a VC believe.
It?s about more than just money: why founders must raise the seed round themselves
As an investor, you?ll need to be able to sell the hell out of your company to future employees, to customers and to all kinds of other stakeholders.
What You Think You Know About the Web Is Wrong
A web where quality makes money and great design is rewarded? That?s something worth paying attention to.