Sean Ellis didn’t plan on founding a startup. But when he “was hit by an epiphany that [he] was perfectly suited to execute,” he decided he had to start the company that became Qualaroo. Before becoming a founder, Ellis held critical marketing roles at Dropbox, Lookout, LogMeIn and Eventbrite. Not a bad resume for a startup
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Logo Design News This Week (5.33)
Every Friday (with a few exceptions) we take a look back at the logo design news from the previous week and share a few thoughts about what’s been going on. This week, we saw a bunch of new logos for small towns. We’ve shared our thoughts about this subject a few times before, but it
12 Quotes for Startups and Small Business from Ryan Hoover, Founder of Product Hunt
Ryan Hoover is the founder of Product Hunt, a website that caters to early adopters who share their product discoveries—everything from their favorite books to business applications. The first iteration was built in just four days near the end of 2013, and has grown incredibly quickly. More than 200,000 people receive their daily email noting
Logo Design News This Week (5.32)
It’s the end of the week and it’s starting to look like people are getting back in the swing of things. Kids are returning to school (at least in our part of the country) and companies are updating their brands. Here’s our Friday wrap up of all the logo design news we saw over the
9 Quotes for Startups and Small Business from Natalie Sisson, Founder of The Suitcase Entrepreneur
If you’re in the process of starting a businsess, chances are, you’re not thinking of traveling the world at the same time. But then you’re not Natalie Sisson. Sisson, who co-founded the crowdfunding website FundRazr before working on her latest startup, The Suitcase Entrepreneur, asked why not do both? And she has. In the process of building a
Logo Design News This Week (5.31)
After nearly three weeks off for some time at the beach, we’re back with another round up of logo design news. Here are the biggest news items we saw from the last 20 days or so. Tokyo is the host for the 2020 Olympic games. And five years before the opening ceremony begins, they unveiled
10 Inspiring Quotes for Startups and Small Business from Ayah Bdeir, Founder of littleBits.
When Ayah Bdeir created the first prototypes for littleBits, she wasn’t thinking of starting a company. But the toy that she created—made up of interlocking building blocks (like Legos) that can be made into all kinds of different machines, robots and other things—found a market almost from the beginning. So after three years of perfecting
Logo Design News This Week (5.30)
Welcome to another Friday, the day each week when we take a look back at the news from the world of logo design. Here are the news items that caught our attention this week: Howard University, based in Washington D.C., unveiled a new logo this week. The school’s old logo looked an awful lot like
Start a Business: How to Name Your Startup
No doubt you’ve heard the amusing story about Chevrolet’s launch of a new model in Latin America. The car was popular in the US, so the launch team simply used the same model and name: Nova. In the states, a nova is an intensely bright star. But in Latin America, nova (or “no va”) means (doesn’t
12 Quotes for Startups and Small Business from Tom Preston-Werner, Founder of Github
Tom Preston-Werner is the co-founder and CEO of the popular code repository, GitHub. But that wasn’t his first foray into starting a new small business. He also started Gravatar, a program for allowing users to create a unique avatar that would follow them on the web from site to site. The service was popular, but struggled