Create a mobile-first online store in less than a minute — TLDR: For many small and micro businesses, Shopify isn’t feasible — as they either don’t have high-level software knowledge or technical resources (laptop) to actually use the platform. For others, Shopify is overkill. It’s a complex product for their simple needs — that ends up overwhelming them. For instance, a…

How can Uber solve unemployment in rural India — Uber’s Mission Bring transportation — to everyone, everywhere. Motivation Dara Khosrowshahi, Uber’s CEO, considers India as an innovation hub to build better products for other developing countries. Uber has launched unique and catered products in India such as Uber Lite app, Moto and UberAuto. According to the 2011 census, rural India is home…

As a VC, your goal is to decide what company to invest in such that it produces an outsized return in x number of years. Now, how do you become good at making these decisions? “Somebody who has more choices naturally has the ability to make better decisions, than those…

In 1995, a 20-year-old Chris @Sacca responds: “Whatever it is, it’s gonna be high stakes, high risk, high reward. I’m gonna do it from a warehouse, where it’s just a phone (email wasn’t a thing then). It’s gonna be me and a barebones team. I’m gonna help people create the…

A friend asked me the same question when we got the founder of a billion-dollar startup on the pod. The answer is to keep following up. There’s no silver bullet. @businessbarista — founder of Morning Brew — was following up with Mark a long time before the @bizcasualpod was even…

I knew @Twilio existed but never understood what they do. There’s a reason why a 12-year-old kid in India can build an Uber clone over a weekend. Just like Lego pieces, you can today piece together pre-built components (called APIs) with minimal coding to launch your app. One of those…

To market a brand new thing, show how you do old things better because right now, nobody cares about that brand new thing. @cdixon wrote — Doing old things better vs doing brand new things.

In the early 2000s, Wikipedia had a rivalry with its centralized competitors like Microsoft Encarta. Encarta began as a pet project of Bill Gates in the late 1980s with the goal of digitizing the encyclopedia Britannica. They paid professionals to write and edit thousands of articles. Originally sold on DVD…