With photo editing at its core,Aviaryis a New York City based startup that wants to power every mobile photo application on the planet. It aims to democratize creativity and help other companies keep innovating at what they do best by providing them with the best photo editing and photo effects available– for free. “Our goal is for Aviary to become the creative electricity that powers every mobile app’s photo-editing workflow. There has never been a great inline creative API available for developers to tap into and we decided to address that real market need....

Today,Aviary, a New York City based startup that offers a free suite of online photo-editing tools, releases its brand new photoEffects API, leveling the playing field for photo app developers on both web and mobile. “When apps like Instagram and Picplz started coming out, we saw the trend of mobile photo apps with filters and sharing. We thought, ‘Why don’t we power these kinds of companies? Build an API for them to support them in the same way Twilio powers group messaging apps like GroupMe?...

Avoid the culture shock: 5-step plan to transition from employee to entrepreneur It’s not easy, but it’s definitely worth it 1. The blank canvas: no resources or structure It’s day 1 of your startup journey and there’s no onboarding plan, no fancy welcome package like the ones you see on your LinkedIn feed. It’s just you and your bold vision to impact the world. You’ll only ever be at this stage once, so use this blank canvas as an opportunity to design the world your way....

Exactly one year ago I reached out to Professor Dorigo Marco after reading about his research in The Economist in an article titledArtificial intelligence: Riders on the swarm. Marco is a researcher at the Free University of Brussels and is one of the founders of a field that has become known as “swarm intelligence”. Dr. Dorigo was interested to learn that ants are good at choosing the shortest possible route between a food source and their nest....

I call it ‘ inbox fear.’ It’s the feeling I have every morning right before I open my email inbox, the dread of how many hundreds of new, irrelevant emails will be awaiting for my undivided attention. Lets face it: email sucks, it’s an ancient part of Internet communication that desperately needs innovation. It’s not just startups who are trying to solve the inbox problem, Google tried and failed withWave. No one has quite managed to succeed yet, but that hasn’t stopped entrepreneurs from trying....