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Startups

Finding Product Market Fit

Interesting talk addressing the challenges of finding product market fit, in the form of a case study about Weebly . It’s worth the 1h you will spend listening, if you are into this kind of stuff. The transcript and slides can be found on the Startup School’s website.

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Movies

rip!

It is almost a decade old, but this documentary film is still worth viewing. It addresses the same issues as the Everything is a remix series (that I also shared in previous posts, here, here and here).

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Random Bits Startups

Managing a 100% remote company

This video about Gitlab was posted recently and is a very interesting case-study on how a company can normally function while having all of its employees working remotely.

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Random Bits

Before the flood

Yesterday I watched the above documentary on National Geography Channel, it is a good piece of work and it alerts to very pertinent issues, that have been in the agenda for many years/decades. Yet, we haven’t been able to overcome lobbies and established interests, that maintain the status quo and their “money machines” running with […]

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Random Bits

Folding@Home

Recently I’ve started “folding” again, to give a small contribution to science and research on important topics such as Alzeimer’s disease among others (as the above video shows). After 2 previous failed attempts (the old computer could not handle it), I’m currently on my longest streak and have just completed the first 100 work units. […]

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Random Bits

Why Privacy Matters

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Random Bits

The Ocean Cleanup

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IjaZ2g-21E More info: http://www.theoceancleanup.com/

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Personal Portugal

Codebits 2014

The 3 days passed so fast that i got the sensation that the event took place in only one day. The only regret I felt in this year’s event was related with the fact that our team was unable to get the project ready for the presentation in 48h. We were developing a service that […]

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Random Bits

Everything is a Remix, Case Study

http://vimeo.com/81745843 Following the other two posts (here and here) containing the 4 episodes of this great web series, i just had to share this video with a small case study about the iPhone.

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Technology and Internet

Tracking and bubbles everywhere