An Interview with CEO of Founders Space, Steven Hoffman (Captain Hoff)
What is your background & why have you set up an Accelerator? I’m the CEO and founder of Founders Space. I’m also an angel investor, partner at FOUNDERS.VC, limited partner at August Capital, serial...
Interview with Angel Investor John Ason
John Ason have been an angel investor for over 21 years. He has invested in over 80 companies. Johns portfolio has 20 female founders, 12 international companies, 30 of those companies are currently active in his...
The Narrowing Gap Between Mobile Apps and Mobile Websites
Internet usage has soared on smartphones. Today more than half of the internet is accessed through them. It’s no surprise that smartphones have a lion’s share in mobile data consumption as well. Cisco estimates...
How to build mobile apps that can recover from crashes in real time
Coding errors AKA bugs can fail a live app. In absence of a quick response, they can cause serious damages. Find out how to be best prepared for such a situation. Back in 2016, Amazon’s app had a major glitch. It...
Linux Server Essentials: Common Firewall Rules and Commands
This cheat sheet-style guide provides a quick reference to iptables commands that will create firewall rules are useful in common, everyday scenarios. This includes iptables examples of allowing and blocking...
Getting Started with Version Control & GitHub
This chapter will be about getting started with Git. We will begin by explaining some background on version control tools, then move on to how to get Git running on your system and finally how to get it set up to...
Decoding biggest success factor for startups
Recently, one of the startups I am working with, asked to ‘decode’ a post by Michael Stewart he had read about success factors for a startup. This post itself was a further assessment based on the TED talk by Bill...
Mythbusters? Question Everything In Entrepreneurship
By blindly following belief systems about entrepreneurship, I set myself up for failure. Here are three anecdotes to convince you to question “trendy” or “entrenched” viewpoints. I like being controversial. There...
Road less taken
Sunil Mohan Ranta (Founder, Devathon) featured in today’s Hindu. Read the entire article here. Sunil Mohan Ranta, who hails from a small town in Himachal Pradesh with a total population of 600, too decided...
Relationships Matter
Entrepreneurship is a choice. It is not reserved for an elite race of humanity. It can be learned. I realized this in my early twenties, after reading a study by a prominent Stanford professor. We tend to...