Boris is the wise ol’ CEO of TNW who writes a weekly column on everything about being an entrepreneur in tech — from managing stress to embracing awkwardness. You can get his musings straight to your inbox bysigning up for his newsletter! What is the purpose of a company? The simple and most common answer is: create shareholder value. I mean, it’s all just about the money in the end, right?...
Treat your ex-employees better! Don’t cut them off Invite ex-employees to your Friday drinks, parties, and events. Involve them in your success and make them feel part of a family, even if they branched out. See them as teenagers that have left the household, but will always be a part of your history. If they feel like they worked on the foundations of your success, they might feel partially responsible. And then your success becomes their success....
Treepollis a micopolling platform that focuses on crowdsourcing answers and polls through 280-character posts. It’s a mixture of Twitter, Facebook and apps likeOpinionAidthat enable users to ask the community questions such as “Who will win the Superbowl this year?” or “What’s the best iPhone app for free texting?” There are several ways to ask the Treepoll community questions including the option to create polls by providing three possible answers. It’s similar to the poll feature found on Facebook however with Treepoll, users aren’t limited to asking just friends....
Tribalfishwants to solve the difficulty involved in conversations on the Internet.Twitterhas helped us to solve part of the problem by allowing us to reach a wide variety of people, but it’s still a one-to-many conversation. Internet forums have been the better answer for longer, deeper conversation but they require you to go to a different destination for nearly every topic. The idea behind Tribalfish is to have a decentralized platform for topic-driven discussion....
If you’ve ever trained for a marathon, or otherwise engaged in any kind of on-going physical activity, at some point you’ve probably ‘Googled’ for advice on anything from treating a niggling injury, to how you can improve your performance. And you most probably found the information you were looking for. There are manydedicatedapps and websites out there that help support an active and healthy lifestyle, butTribesportsattempts to bring everything together under one virtual roof....
