Rule number one: keep your money in the pocket
I would say that the most important tip I find myself repeating with my work with startups and young entrepreneurs: always keep your money in the pocket. Don’s spend it, don’t commit to any...
Category: Entrepreneurship
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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) unless a Berlin startup which is acting in...
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 prepare the best startup pitch for investors
Surprisingly enough, most of the pitch documents which I’m getting are done really badly, or are not good enough to attract the attention of investors. Some of those startups have got a caliber of...
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...
The role of a CTO
In this article I want to say some words about the real role of a CTO – the chief technical/technology officer – especially in startups and small to medium companies. I find the CTO...
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...
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 change folders of a WordPress blog
WordPress is highly popular and a very useful framework if you wanted to setup a website in literally 5 minutes. However there is a price for that – as WordPress has got some basic...
Facebook Workplace Review
Facebook launched in October last year (2016) the corporate version of Facebook, a genuine and unique version of Facebook for organizations, named “Facebook Workplace“. I have been using Facebook Workplace while developing a prototype...
How come Facebook succeeded where others failed?
Facebook has became a major part of the lives of 2,000,000,000 people, it is the most successful web platform and social media site ever. However, it was not the first one – others were...
Block chain is nice, but not going to “completely change the internet”
We are hearing a lot of noise recently around block chain, the technology that Bitcoin is based on, and how it is going to completely change the face of today’s internet to “something completely...
How to assess the potential of a .com idea/venture?
I have been looking at the evolution of the .com as a .com web veteran to set some high level thumb rules for assessing new ideas. When assesing new ventures, I would take that...
