Programmers guide to weight loss
I lost 44 pounds in the last 6 months. I did it without a diet or going hungry. I used basic methods that are known to most programmers for optimizing my behavior. Here is a...
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How to: Use Slack API to Get Notification When Something Happens in your App/Site
Most Startups use Slack these days to communicate. They also integrate Jira, Asana and other tools into Slack to improve the communication and integration between the team members. But what if you want to get...
Always Be Communicating
As Startup founders we have a lot of audiences: our investors, our employees, our clients, and our partners. Communicating with them is not always intuitive and easy, but it is always critical to the success...
Startups – Do’s and Don’ts of Working with Big Corporates
Many startups want to collaborate with big corporates – they seek business development, acquisition, technical cooperation, co-marketing and more. A few weeks ago I attended a panel with a top executive from HP and an...
5 Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make When Coming to Silicon Valley
Many entrepreneurs from all over the world flock to the Silicon Valley – some are seeking finance, others partnerships, and many feel their startup has a better chance of being successful just by being here in the startup capital. I was once told by a friend “in the same way artist used to go to Paris for a few years to absorb the spirit, I come to the silicon valley with my startup”.
Many foreign startup founders do very well in the Silicon Valley, but as I meet a lot of startups that come here, I find that there are some repetitive mistakes that founders do make when coming here.
Here is an unsorted collection of these mistakes..
Google Startup Launch Program
6 Months ago I have accepted an offer by Google to lead a new Global Startup Outreach program out of our offices in the Silicon Valley. My team’s mission is to help startups become successful over...
Google’s Developer Relations Vs. Microsoft’s Developer And Platform Evangelism
It has been a year since I joined Google as a regional PM for Developer Relations. Looking back, it has been an amazing year – a rollercoaster of activities with startups, developers, and entrepreneurs...
The World First Ever HTML5 Advertisement
We all love new technology, its event better when it is open and standard. But getting your feet wet and actually using the new technology? and in production? and where there is money involved?...
Gracefully Detect Old Browsers and Fallback from HTML5
HTML5 rocks! It even says so in this (highly recommended) great web tutorial, but there are still a lot of browsers out there, that still do not support HTML5, or some of it’s features....
Finally I Have a Budget to Support Open Source
I have been an Open Source enthusiast for a very long time. I have written several open source projects, and although I have yet to find a perfect open source revenue model, I still...
Voice Recognition API in Android Apps Using RecognizerIntent
Voice interface is not a common application user interface, we do not usually interact with application using voice. But when it comes to mobile it makes more sense. We are used to talk to a phone all...
