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Guy Kawasaki and Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten are live at TNW2019 – tune in now!

May09
by on May 9, 2019 at 11:45 am
Posted In: Around the Web, TNW2019


We’re coming to you live from day one of TNW 2019, our flagship conference in Amsterdam. Up next is Guy Kawasaki, the genius responsible for building Apple’s cult-like status that remains today. Kawasaki is being interviewed by Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, TNW‘s founder and CEO. Tune in to their chat by following this link to the TNW TV livestream at 14:55 CEST. There’s plenty more where that came from. Check out the official schedule to discover the keynotes you don’t want to miss, and watch them on our live streams.

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Reddit’s CTO: Designers should know these two things

May09
by on May 9, 2019 at 11:12 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Events, Insights, TNW2019


At TNW2019, Reddit’s Chief Technical Officer, Chris Slowe, shared some behind-the-scenes insights into what makes the message board tick. Perhaps more importantly, he spoke of two important lessons learned from tackling the challenges Reddit faces as one of the world’s most popular websites. Reddit is a giant, got a weird hobby? There’s probably a subreddit for it. Over 300 million users visit Reddit every month, and as Slowe attests, “the tech isn’t easy.” Even so, it didn’t stop the message board from embarking on a redesign in attempts to provide redditors with more tools and an improved user experience According to…

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Here’s how the Earth got so wet, according to scientists

May09
by on May 9, 2019 at 11:00 am
Posted In: Around the Web, syndication


Water is essential for life on Earth and is one of our most precious natural resources. But considering how our planet formed, it is quite surprising how much water we still have. The Earth aggregated from a cloud of gas and dust – a protoplanetary disk – and was incandescently hot for the first few million years. Its surface was kept molten by impacts from comets and asteroids. Earth’s interior was also (and still is) kept liquid by a combination of gravitational heating and the decay of radioactive isotopes. That means that if there were any initial water (and organic…

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The 2019 Global Startup Ecosystem Report launches at TNW2019

May09
by on May 9, 2019 at 10:06 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Events, Insider, TNW2019


Today, on the TNW Conference Main Stage, we are delighted to help launch the 2019 Global Startup Ecosystem Report (GSER) with Startup Genome. Produced in partnership with the Global Entrepreneurship Network; the #GSER2019 is the world’s most comprehensive and widely-read research on startups. The GSER is based on data from thousands of startup founders and research on millions of companies — supplemented with data from partners Crunchbase, Dealroom, and Orb Intelligence. In #GSER2019 are key insights for founders, investors, executives, policymakers, and ecosystem builders. One of the most eye-popping GSER statistics is that the global startup economy is worth nearly $3…

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Guy Kawasaki’s key to success: get high and to the right

May09
by on May 9, 2019 at 10:02 am
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Kicking off the TNW2019 Conference in Amsterdam today, tech evangelist Guy Kawasaki shared a number of forgettable pieces of wisdom from his life in the industry over the past few decades. But his final bit of advice made sense for figuring out how to build your business, and advance your career: get high and to the right. “It’s not about weed or politics – it’s the only graph you need to chart your life, create a product, and even find the ideal life companion.” Whether it’s your personality as a potential employee, or the proposition of your product, Kawasaki recommends…

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