Don’t think a 21-year-old founder can help you grow your team, strategy, and business? Think again. I looked back at some of my interviews with a few of the young founders I talked to. Whether the company revolved around social TV or adventure travel, each entrepreneur reflected on what they had learned about themselves and growing a company. Here’s are some lessons from young entrepreneurs: I learn something new every time I talk to a young founder, so the next time you go seeking startup advice from an angel, you might want to turn to a young entrepreneur in your area instead....

They Collaborate We think of startup founders as singular geniuses like Elon Musk or a Steve Jobs. While they may be the driving vision behind the brand and product, great companies are not built in a vacuum. Growing startups can jump quickly from 10 to 50 to hundreds of employees within a couple of years. No startup can achieve scale without product engineers, leadership, sales and marketing and finance and operations....

Managers agree that efficient human resource management is the bedrock foundation of any successful business and plays a key role in the efficient handling of recruitment, employee relations, compensation, training, tax calculations and payroll processing. The adoption of cloud-based HR computing is a game changer which can pave a new path for the agility, speed and adeptness of mundane HR functions. Cloud-based technology enables small to mid-sized organizations in making radical automation of time-keeping and payroll processes....

While Banana Republic’s “Startup Guy” line was largely mocked by the startup community itself, the exclusion of a “Startup Woman/Girl” line further pushed the message that the industry is one in which men continue to dominate. It was a complete disregard to all the women founders, programmers, designers, and others who live and breathe startups. We reached out to startup women and asked them to show us what they wear on the daily basis....

The Mattermark 2014 Startup Traction Report, released last December, includes a wealth of data on the fastest-growing startups, regions, and industries (get it for $99). They used data from public sources like Crunchbase, AngelList, NASDAQ, the SEC, and the White House Office of Management & Budget, as well as private relationships they have with investors and entrepreneurs. Everything was measured for the 2014 fiscal year, which covers October 2013-September 2014....

Now of course the bad news keeps coming, but journalists need to type slightly fewer letters writing it up. Thanks Zuck! From empty promises on the Metaverse to bribery court cases, we take a look over the past week at Meta. The Metaverse Keeps Getting Meta-Worse 1. Quest Pro VR headset announced, adds eye-tracking adverts This should have been a slam dunk for Meta. The announcement of new VR tech is always exciting, and sure, this one is hugely more expensive than prior models at $1,500, but there’s a lot of tech under the hood and it’s the most advanced headset the company has made yet....

Reaction is a company that is focused on developing relief shelters for displaced residents in disaster zones. Their product, the Exo, hopes to forever alter the landscape of emergency housing relief. Originally from Mississippi, McDaniel was deeply affected by the effects of Hurricane Katrina. What he found particularly frustrating was the emergency relief that was provided to all those people whose homes were destroyed in the storm. The government provided inadequate emergency housing and left many families separated....

Good Sound Begins With Recording The cleaner your audio is, the less time you’ll have to spend editing it. Research which sound-recording devices/tools and settings will best serve your project. Will you need a boom mic, or do you not mind if the people in your video wear clip­on microphones? A good sound recorder, one that has different settings for overdub, mono and stereo recording, and dual recording, is also essential....

Given the natural decade-long development cycle, fifth generation (5G) networks are due around 2021. But South Korea, the world’s most enthusiastic adaptor of mobile technology, is pushing the envelope and plans to roll out a 5G network as early as 2017, with full availability by 2020. What does this technological push mean for savvy smartphone users? What is a 5G Network? Truthfully, no one really knows at this point because no standards have been formalized....

Angel Aire is the only product of its kind intended to accomplish a scattering service in a clean and controlled event. Ashes are loaded into an Angel Aire urn, and with a pull of the release knob, projected upwards like an ascending cloud. The result is a fine cloud of ashes that rapidly rises into the air, an elegant symbol that represents the immortal soul ascending into the heavens. If more than one person would like to perform the ash scattering, the Angel Aire urn allows for multiple start/stop sessions....

As initially reported by Touch Arcade, Apple developers of games like Ultimate General: Gettysburg and all of Hunted Cow’s Civil War games are being told that such apps fall out of line when framed within the greater context of what’s going on in recent events. At the time of writing, Apple has pulled everything from the App Store that features the Confederate flag, and the reasons the company is giving developers is “…because it includes images of the confederate flag used in offensive and mean-spirited ways....

Freelancer.com has collated data from its nearly 2 million job postings to reveal the fastest growing online jobs over the past year. Content and writing, blockchain and e-commerce-related jobs were among the fastest growing areas of the global online freelance labor market in 2018. But is this good news or bad for those looking for their next calling? Well, that depends on whether you’re the glass-half-full or glass-half-empty sort. We explain why these remote-working fields may prove to be mixed opportunities....

Networking Apps 2.0 Networking apps, in theory, are still new to the field, though they have been tried before. Social media sites like LinkedIn specify building relationships through professional contacts, placing emphasis on careers and professional networking. This mindset is contagious – especially as users are seeking to have more authentic connections beyond dating or the superficial interactions that can come from using popular social media sites. App company Bumble has already started to expand on this idea, working to create their BumbleBFF app and, soon, their BumbleBizz platform....

Launched just yesterday by SupplyFrame, a company helping engineers design better hardware faster, the Hackaday Prize is a chance for hardware hackers to build a piece of open source hardware that has the potential to change the world. The focus on open source is an essential feature of the competition, as it’s through open design that solutions for the future are discovered. In a post written yesterday by Szczys: The grand prize is a trip to space on a carrier of the winner’s choice....

However, she’s in crisis mode, so all that goes out the window, and she’s focused on one thing: her Mac isn’t doing what she wants it to, and it doesn’t matter that when you’re at work, you use Windows. You are your parents’ tech support, and you are on-call 24/7. Don’t Judge Mom Your mom, however, is no dummy. She’s raised a family of well-educated free thinkers who obviously know how to use technology well....

Then the bubble burst. In the couple of decades since, startups and VCs have gotten a little bit smarter with regards to fundraising, with deep analysis of data sets largely replacing a “hunch” when it comes to investing. Change is likely to come even more rapidly in the near future, for several reasons. One is that key provisions of the JOBS (Jumpstart Our Business Startups) Act are now starting to become law....

You create a beautifully designed iOS app that solves a major problem. Everyone loves it in beta. You launch it on the Apple Store, charging maybe $0.99 or $3.99, and hundreds or thousands of people download it within a few days. Then adoption drops off a cliff, and your app becomes almost invisible. This is the exact problem that the founders of Boston-based Fiksu ran into. I spoke with Craig Palli, their VP of Business Development yesterday, and they have walked in your shoes already: Obviously, they went with the latter....

Canvas, a Washington DC metro-area startup that provides a cloud-based SaaS mobile app platform, has been on a mission since its inception to reduce paper-based waste, and their latest PDF Designer tool furthers that mission. This new tool will allow companies to create digital receipts, invoices, and forms using existing company data and information. Digital receipts are certainly not a new concept; however, most businesses still rely heavily on the paper version....

ClassDojo ClassDojo is a classroom management app. Classroom management is one of the critical ingredients for a good learning experience. Aside from the ability to check attendance and to give merits and feedback on student behaviors, it has the randomizer function that allows the teacher to randomly call on a student to answer a question. This makes students attentive as they know they can be called upon even without raising their hand....

The feature means that users can communicate with others, even those that don’t use ClickUp, without having to leave the platform. ClickUp is one of Tech.co’s best rated Work OS platforms, so we’re happy to see even more functionality come to the software. We take a closer look at what to expect from the Email app. Using the ‘Email ClickApp’ in ClickUp The new Email app is designed to be used within the ClickUp platform to send and receive email, without the need to bring up your dedicated email client, such as Gmail....