Equity compensation is widely used in the industry, but I find that something goes wrong between Australian culture and startup culture. I’ve seen this happen in other places as well, but not to the...
Cassandra NoSQL Expertise to Optimise Your SQL Web Performance?!?! No, I’m not drunk. In this article, I want to show and convince you that techniques used to design Cassandra NoSQL databases can actually be...
I saw this post on LinkedIn by a seasoned entrepreneur, and it said: “First-time co-founder, chasing VCs, investing 1000 hours in pitching, gets no value. Second-time founder, meets a VC once and stops pitching...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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:...
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...
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...
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...
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...
(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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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:...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
We are hearing a lot of noise recently around blockchain, the technology that Bitcoin is based on, and how it is going to completely change the face of today’s internet to “something completely new,...
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...