8 predicciones y tendencias para startups y emprendedores en 2016

El mundo emprendedor y las startups digitales están viviendo una eclosión en el todo mundo. Durante el año 2015 han pasado muchas cosas en el mercado. Junto con la aparición de nuevas compañías se han producido sonoras compras, ventas, fusiones y adquisiciones pero ¿Cual serán las predicciones y tendencias que viviremos en el mundo emprendedor en 2016?

Los 15 fracasos en tecnología 2015

Los monopatines flotadores, comúnmente conocidos como “hoverboards”, fueron uno de los productos tecnológicos de los que más se habló este año… pero casi por todas las razones equivocadas.1. La explosión de los ‘hoverboards’

Pitching Your Startup to the Media

At Chop Dawg over the past several years, we have had the great fortune to see our clients successfully featured on some of the top digital and print publications on the planet. It’s a truly humbling experience, and above all, it says a lot about the type of people we have the privilege to work with and the products that they have been able to visualize and create.

The New Age Economy

In the past years, the way we dress ourselves, the way we listen to music, the way we watch TV, the way we date, the day we transport… it all has changed a lot. And those changes didn’t happened by a matter of coincidence or just fate. Behind each of these new behaviors there is a strong, innovative and yet a little abstract background: the sharing economy.

How to deliver feedback without arguments

Feedback is one of the most essential skills in life. It is not realistic to expect that everything will always go as planned for you. If you want to correct the errors, or make sure that things improve, you must be able to deliver feedback effectively. When you deliver feedback you are usually commenting on somebody else’s performance. This requires a degree of emotional maturity and sensitivity to ensure that the recipient does not take it personal. After all, when you deliver feedback effectively, you are aiming to help both parties – you get the result that you are looking for and the other person gets some valuable information which helps them improve their performance in future. It really is a win-win situation; if you deliver feedback in the appropriate manner.

Four tips for growing an international business online

New research from PayPal has revealed that the UK is the third most popular destination for online shoppers abroad, with more than 86 million of them buying from the UK in the last year. PayPal’s UK Managing Director, Cameron McLean, spoke to British business Chain Reaction Cycles to find out how the business has grown from a small local shop to one of the world’s largest online cycle stores catering to cycling enthusiasts in over 100 countries...

5 Productivity Tips I Learned From Uber and Other Silicon Valley Superstars

I once asked Mitch Kapor how he stayed productive. The tech veteran smiled and showed me an elaborate Microsoft Word document he used to keep track of all the people, places and projects in his life with keyboard shortcuts to move information around, so he’d know what to do when. Seeing him in action with it was a marvel, because for him, that document was clearly the best tool for the job.