Ron Zeghibe is co-founder and chairman of Hailo, a taxi booking phone application. Q. Before helping to set up Hailo in 2011, you used to fix existing companies. What is the difference between running a start-up and a company that has been in business for some time? A. Hailo is my first start-up,…

March 25, 2014 My Role as a Manager I’ve been in quite a few conversations lately about the role and questionable necessity of management. From new startups to established companies like Valve , lots of folks are wrestling with the idea of hierarchy vs. flat vs.…

λ: Spot on. “You get the money later when you do that, which is another big reason people in SF don't spend so much” https://t.co/Q1qMemWuu9

When Daehee Park and JT Marino left the tech startup they worked for to strike out on their own, they looked for a different pace, perhaps something in an “old-fashioned industry” ripe for change. They landed in mattresses. The industry, dominated by the big S companies — Simmons, Serta and Sealy —…

Since it first launched its iPhone app in 2012, Simple has pitched itself as the anti-bank: More customer friendly, more technologically advanced, less bureaucratic. So when news broke yesterday that it had sold itself for $117 million to BBVA, the giant multinational bank holding company, you could…

I was chatting to my good friend Jamie O’Shaunessey about start ups and enterprises. I explained the 20 – 20 – 20 rule* that the american army use as a strategy for any engagement. The rules are… 1. Within twenty hours, they will have special forces on site to provide recon and intel. 2. Within…

This is a story about ARM Holdings, the mobile technology company. But before it gets going, here are a few things you need to know: 1. ARM is a company made up mostly of chip engineers. They design parts of chips—such as graphics and communication bits—and they design entire chips. 2. ARM sells…

Every eighth of a mile, there goes more money—tick ... tick ... tick. Photo by Jonatan Hedberg/iStock/Thinkstock W hen I get a taxi for the 15-minute ride from my office to the airport, I have two choices. I can hail a cab on the street, and pay a metered fare for the 4.6-mile trip. Or I can walk to…

Just finished reading “Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple’s Greatest Products” by Leander Kahney, which is mainly fascinating because of the abscence of it’s subject. Ive has said so little in public (aside from in corporate pr films) that the book paints a detailed picture of everything around him –…

Roger Angell and Andy; Central Park, January, 2014. Credit Photograph by Brigitte Lacombe Check me out. The top two knuckles of my left hand look as if I’d been worked over by the K.G.B. No, it’s more as if I’d been a catcher for the Hall of Fame pitcher Candy Cummings, the inventor of the…

ryangraves: great post from a first time @Uber engineering manager. love this team. http://t.co/M56k6Pcpu6

We should go a little easier on ourselves when it comes to indifference to the news, and recognize that we're one of the first generations to have to deal with the torrent of information about things very far removed from our own lives. For most of history, it was extremely difficult to come by…

In the era of the Kindle, a book costs the same price as a sandwich. Dennis Johnson, an independent publisher, says that “Amazon has successfully fostered the idea that a book is a thing of minimal value—it’s a widget.” Credit Construction by Ian Wright / Photograph by Ed Park Amazon is a global…

‘The standard tool is the online pension calculator, of which countless variants exist. There’s only one problem: they leave out almost everything that matters’ Everyone seems to be talking about whether pensioners are vulnerable and poor or living gilded lifestyles. I decided to take a rather…

jteramsden: Controversial, brilliantly argued. “@Inkyfool: Why "10 items or less" is not wrong. http://t.co/5ItnvoOr1e”

For Netflix to be successful, we have to be vigilant in supporting the tens of millions of connected devices that are used by our 40+ million members throughout 40+ countries. These members consume more than one billion hours of content every month and account for nearly a third of the downstream…

Photography: Jared Leeds As one of the world’s preeminent advisers to CEOs and boards, Ram Charan has spent the past 35 years on the road, watching hundreds of executives deal with their toughest challenges. He regularly shares the insights from his experiences in speeches and the classroom and is…

GCHQ's mass surveillance spying programmes are probably illegal and have been signed off by ministers in breach of human rights and surveillance laws, according to a hard-hitting legal opinion that has been provided to MPs. The advice warns that Britain's principal surveillance law is too vague and…

Image copyright Getty Images Much of what we think we know about the 1914-18 conflict is wrong, writes historian Dan Snow. No war in history attracts more controversy and myth than World War One. For the soldiers who fought it was in some ways better than previous conflicts, and in some ways worse.…

'A passion for architecture': Jonathan Meades on the roof of Le Corbusier’s Cité Radieuse in Marseille, where he lives. Photograph: Alexa Brunet S omewhat predictably, my taxi driver pulls a face as we arrive at the great concrete hive-come-cliff that is Le Corbusier 's Cité Radieuse in Marseille.…

This past October, just before the leaves changed, I went on a six-day hike through the mountains of Wakayama, in central Japan, tracing the path of an ancient imperial pilgrimage called the Kumano Kodo. I took along a powerful camera, believing, as I always have, that it would be an indispensable…

You could say Chris Fry has a pretty big job. As Twitter’s senior vice president of engineering, he’s the guy who makes sure the trains — or rather, tweets — run on time. He’s responsible for managing the roughly 1000-plus engineers who make up half the company working on Twitter’s site reliability,…

Seven months ago, the world began to learn the vast scope of the National Security Agency’s reach into the lives of hundreds of millions of people in the United States and around the globe, as it collects information about their phone calls, their email messages, their friends and contacts, how they…

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