Surge capacity is a collection of adaptive systems — mental and physical — that humans draw on for short-term survival in acutely stressful situations, such as natural disasters. But natural disasters occur over a short period, even if recovery is long. Pandemics are different — the disaster itself stretches out indefinitely.
Since February, as the global economy collapsed under the weight of the coronavirus pandemic, millions of novices, armed with $1,200 stimulus checks and nothing much to do, have begun trading via Silicon Valley upstart Robinhood—the phone-friendly discount brokerage founded in 2013.
I often get introduced to people looking to make the jump into startups and Silicon Valley. This is the reading list I send them. It’s not meant to be comprehensive. Rather, it’s meant to be a primer for many of the popular concepts and jargon you will hear working at a startup.
I’ve been fundraising at venture funds for more than twelve years. I often get questions about how to raise new venture funds, and coming on the heels of Initialized’s close of its fifth core fund last week, I’m sharing some best practices and tips.
In this session, Ravi Mehta, fmr Tinder CPO and founder of Slidevana, discusses examples from across the industry to illustrate the three pillars of product decision making — intuition, analytics, and customer feedback and why it’s so hard to get it right all the time.
Join Wilson Sonsini and special guests Flying Fish & Mayfield Fund as we go behind this quarter’s venture financing numbers. Wilson Sonsini will share with us detail directly from their recent Entrepreneur’s Report, and our guests will cover the trends in the various stages of funding.
In this online session of Designers + Geeks, Aarron Walter, VP Design Education at InVision, shows you how to bring designing for emotion—all emotions—into your process so you can create better, kinder customer experiences.
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