Today, growing a company is much like raising a family. Your first-born, your first angel round; your first failure, your second child; your first pivot, your first move to a new home; who to play the disciplinarian? Who to be soothing calm when the weather gets rough? Building something meaningful from the ground up is a great balancing act, and just like there’s no one right way to raise a family, there are an innumerable amount of ways to raise a company....

HopStop, a much loved website for public transit, cab, walking andbiking directionscan get you to and from anywhere you want to go in 57 major metropolitan markets throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe and Russia. As a busy 26-year old in the big city with a lemming’s sense of direction, I useits iPhone appalmost everyday. The site provides maps marked with nearby subways and bus stops (and restaurants, bars, clubs, hotels etc....

The New York Timesunveiled its Sunday magazine’s new look this weekend with a redesign coordinated by magazine art director Arem Duplessis. Duplessistells the Society of Publication Designershow he ended up giving the magazine a vintage look that is reminiscent of mid-20th century publication design: “When Hugo Lindgren was announced as the editor of the magazine we knew he’d want change. This excited me because I felt like the design had moved too far away from the brand of the newspaper and this was the chance to get it right....

The Big Apple versus The Big Orange. The City of Dreams versus The City of Angels. I’m referring, of course, to theongoing rivalrybetween New York City and Los Angeles.Hilarious “survey” videosandtalk showswill give you one picture of the cities. My colleagues and I decided to take a more serious look at the differences between the cities, so we studied what everyone else was talking about – on Twitter. We set out to answer a simple research question: Are people who are located near each other likely to tweet about similar things?...

In May 2016, the Kiwi government introduced itsElectric Vehicles Programme, aiming to reach 64,000 EVs by 2021. But despite the gradual and steady increase in electric vehicle registrations since then, the target wasn’t met – according to the Ministry of Transport, there are now 27,436 EVs on the country’s roads. To boost the adoption of electric and low emission vehicles, the governmentannouncedyesterday itsClean Car Discountpackage, which offers significant subsidies to prospective EV owners....