How to Get the SaaS Startup Market Size Right
I have read a lot of pitch decks in my life, especially recently while helping many startups in Sydney. I noticed that one chapter most startups fail in their pitch deck is actually one...
Author: Eran Ben-Shahar
Understanding the AWS Stack Health Check Calculator
Have you ever wondered if your AWS architecture is optimised especially in terms of your billing costs ? I recently built an AWS stack health check calculator, available for free use, it is here...
The House That Jack Built: Understanding Technical Debt for Startups
The Story of Jack’s House Jack was an ambitious entrepreneur with a grand vision of building his dream house. Eager to move in quickly and save costs, he decided to cut corners. Instead of...
Plastic wastage at supermarkets is solvable with AI
If you look carefully at supermarket prices and compare various products, you may discover that some products, especially vegetables, are cheaper when purchased pre-packed than loose. It almost doesn’t make sense, since the pre-packed...
How AI will kill dating services
One of the most popular services online, from the beginning of the internet, has been dating services. I recall that already in the late 1990s, when the internet had a low reach of just...
How AI can help environment aid
Following a discussion with some friends, which wondered how AI could help environment aid, here are some SaaS and startup ideas that utilize AI to address environmental problems, categorized by the three R’s: Reduce,...
Natural Language Models Don’t Really Have Common Sense
We all know the famous Wason selection task, a psychology puzzle developed by Peter Cathcart Wason in 1966. The task is designed to test a person’s ability to apply logical reasoning. Here’s how it...
Falling in love with our own ideas
One of the main reasons why startup founders and entrepreneurs need experienced advisers is because we tend to fall in love with our own ideas. In fact, every business owner, senior manager, and even...
The AI Paradox
If at some point AI is so smart that it would be capable of everything, would it be able to create a task so complex that even the AI will not be able to...
Climate and AI Summit Feedback, Sydney – May 2024
I was fortunate to get tickets to the popular Climate and AI Summit at the impressive Salesforce Tower in Sydney during Climate Action Week. We were told it is the most sustainable building in...
Why surveys are the best way to make mistakes
If a flight ticket to Mars cost $100, would you join the journey? I’m sure most of us would answer “yes” to this question. Does it mean that we have now validated a...
Rule number one: keep your money in the pocket
One of the most important tips I find myself repeating to startups and young entrepreneurs is: always keep your money in your pocket. Don’t spend it, don’t commit to any expenses, and never buy...
Installation of RoundCube mail client on Linux
This is a step by step tutorial for installation of your own RoundCube mail client, it is in continue to my recent Postix server installation post. [Download DOCX version] [Download PDF version] Install...
Collaboration: the one thing that all startups need to improve and do
Last week, I sent a quote to a large European client for Facenition, our startup. I wouldn’t have known about this RFP (Request For Proposals) if a Berlin startup, which operates in the same...
How to prepare the best startup pitch for investors
Surprisingly enough, most of the pitch documents that I’m getting are done really badly, or are not good enough to attract investors’ attention. Some of those startups have a calibre of mentors and advisers,...
Bookmark of recommended channels
List of youtube channels which I’m following, mainly for educational purposes – from Noble prizes to online courses by Yale, Stanford and Harvard University: Science Noble prize lectures: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/ Noble prize youtube channel:...
Fundamental problems with evolution theory
There are several problems with Evolution Theory that may challenge its validity as a scientific theory. I’ll describe three fundamental ones, but there are many others. This critique is not meant to underestimate the...
The best currency in a crisis is NOT gold, but…
Gold prices are surging, and reached a peak of all times, greater increase than after the September 11 crisis, have a look at the data: People are buying gold due to the pandemic and...
Why investing in a New Zealand startup is a good idea?
In my video why to invest in a New Zealand startup I mentioned that I will supply some resources. Here it is: 15% R&D tax incentive To learn more about the New Zealand research...
Some SEO tips and good practices
This article is written for the reference of our content writing staff, as we employ in iBronto few content writers and manage some blogs for clients and ventures. It is meant to be a...
Facenition update: covid19 related use cases, scale up to Europe update and more
I wanted to update you on our Facenition progress. At the moment because of the Covid19 situation we decided to improve our communication and issue a sort of weekly email update to my close...
Necessity is the mother of all inventions – use the covid19 crisis as an opportunity
Lots of people are in limbo state but actually I think that a crisis can give a really good motivation to do things and improve – “necessity is the mother of all inventions”. I...
Murphy law is hitting again, this time – I almost got “locked out” instead of “locked-down”
I went today to collect an online shopping order (I want to thank the New World team for accepting our online order), and while waiting for the goods I got a text from my...
Power outage, preparing our shed greenhouse for planting
If anything could get wrong, it will get wrong – I think that was the original verse (or similar) by Murphy which invented the Murphy’s law. Today I woke up fully energetic to start...
Achievements during the covid19 lockdown – 26 March 2020
Today was a really good day – both business wise and from self-sufficiency point of view. It started from an omelette made with veggies collected from our garden which is sort of a daily...
Steve Jobs and Apples “amazing” geniousity: Macbook usability issues
We often hear about Apple’s renowned UX/UI experience. However, there are several lesser-known bugs and design flaws in macOS that can lead to a frustrating user experience. Here are some of the issues that...
How to avoid the corona virus (Covid-19) panic
The Corona virus panic is reminding me of the bug 2000 panic – it has no sense, and most likely “someone” (guess which industries?) is going to earn the prize. One of my workers...
How to add an iframe popup to your blog (without any plugin)
So you want an iframe popup maybe – for registrations or privacy / cookies alert window? Here is a short code snippet that can make it happen. Just add this code snippet to a...
Startups documents – templates pack
This is a live blog articles in which I will share all sorts of startup documents templates. You need to let me know if anything else is interesting you. Note – they fit with...
Startups need (not) to learn from chimpanzees
There are two major differences between us humans and chimpanzees, which are giving us a huge advantage over them. Startups and business people can learn a lot from this observation. Chimpanzees are highly intelligent:...
Object Oriented Programming is usually not the best choice, especially not good for startups
Have you ever tried to tell a beginner developer, that Object Oriented programming (or any other tech which is in the main stream opinion) is bad? Young students are finishing university and automatically doing...
Goodbye Google – how and why to get off Google Products
Google is a very problematic company, in all levels: they spy after users[1], they use dodgy techniques and they don’t follow our society code of conduct (the laws)[2]. In many countries they are fined...
Add a new sender domain to an existing POSTFIX mail server – a step by step guide
In this guide we will add, step by step, a new domain sender to an existing POSTFIX mail server: say your existing server is sending emails on behalf of example.com domain [the manual to...
Build your own outgoing mail server on Linux
This is a step by step guide how to build Postfix as an outgoing SMTP Mail Server Ubuntu 18.04 / Debian 9.9 Stretch Setup. [Download PDF version] [Download DOCX version] Postfix is a Mail Transfer...
Raspberry Pi Tutorials
(work in progress) A. How to mount a USB hard drive 1. First, plugin and then locate the drive: sudo fdisk -l In this example output, I mounted a 256GB SD CARD with the...
Some tips on how stop feeding the Google and Facebook monsters
And… if you are thinking to start using a Mac’intosh, here is my opinion (read below). In January 2014 I built Palrobot, a Facebook app which reached more than 4.5 million users within a...
How to configure WordPress to automatically install plugins and themes without FTP
This is going to be a short tip, I just found out (and got annoyed) that the recent versions of WordPress are configured so when you try to install a new plugin or a...
How to earn engagement in Social Media group posts
This article is a bit out of context of my usual subject matters, but since I manage several Facebook groups (like this one) and I usually get lots of attraction when I post on...
How to improve the way you pitch angel investors
While I’m invested in several start-ups, our group is looking for new investment opportunities so I’m being approached by lots of entrepreneurs and startups, usually online. I also joined several investors events in the...
Russia is (not) the mother of all evil
Is Russia “Mother of all evil”? This is my 5th visit to Russia from New Zealand and I have a lot of thoughts about freedom of speech and our government(s). Please read this to...
The role of a CTO
In this article, I want to discuss the real role of a CTO—the chief technical/technology officer—especially in startups and small to medium companies. I find the CTO’s responsibility almost obvious from one hand, but...
How come Israelis are so good with startups?
Israel, a small country with very limited resources, is attracting a lot of attention in recent years as it turned to be a well established startup hub. I read many articles and opinions which...
Configure a website server on Apache – quickguide
In this quick guide I will configure a website on a pre-installed Apache server with SSL certificate issued by Lets Encrypt. Prerequisites: a full stack Apache server on Linux, LetsEncrypt agent already installed (refer...
LAMP Stack Server Build Quick Guide
Install Linux Debian 9 (Stretch), Apache2, MySQL 8, PHP 7 on a vanilla (empty) server, a step by step tutorial with screenshots and detailed explanations. Do you want stop being a Google slave or...
Best practice for responsive web designs
So you think you know everything about responsive designs? Brace yourself, I invented a better methodology. Lets start with some code which I implemented in Visual Trivia. This is how my CSS looks like:...
Backend to frontend good practice web development
I dedicate this article to my daughter (16yrs), she is now studying full stack web development on WAMP – Apache, MySQL and PHP on a windows server. The server wouldn’t actually matter to this...
How to control CSS 3.0 Animations with Javascript / Jquery
The situation – lets say you are using a CSS keyframe animation (I will give an example below) and you wish to make it faster and faster, or slower and slower. The problem: there...
How Facebook spy after you even when you are not on Facebook
Mark Zukerberg was under the spotlight for the recent “spying” allegations and privacy breaches by Facebook apps. I was actually surprised that people didn’t know how far goes the online data collection, and how...
Scalable Web by Stateless Development
Scalability is the ability to grow your web service to many users, it requires a special attention especially since recently there is a popular misconception that “if you host in the cloud, your application...
How to prevent Authors from editing or deleting WordPress posts
A quick-win with WordPress – say you hired authors to posts articles on a blog, and have got a process like the following: The authors post their post under “draft” mode An editor is...