Startup Reading List - Startup Digest - Gearing up for 2017! - December 30th - January 6th

Startup Reading List December 30, 2016 Wishing you all a great New Year celebration with friends and family. Thanks for being awesome subscribers. See ya in 2017! Startup Reading List Startup Digest is curated by: Zubin Chagpar - @phylosopher Contact Zubin Chagpar at zubin.chagpar@startupdigestmail.com Chris McCann - Community @ Greylock Partners Contact Chris McCann at chris@startupdigest.com Empire FinTech Conference Starting at Just $195, but Act Fast! Hear from those forging new trails in payments, blockchain, lending, robo-advising, insurance tech, real estate and more. In addition to attracting hundreds of FinTech entrepreneurs, the conference also plays host to the investors, bank innovators and service providers that help accelerate startups.  You don't want to miss this - starting at just $195. Why Your Startup Needs a Check-up Jay Simons "We found successful product teams had some kind of end-to-end walk-through that proves why the problem needed to be solved, the best path forward and why it would work. Teams often agree on the end goal of the project, but each individual can have a different way of getting there. We had one engineering team that created a document showing three ways of solving a problem, and demonstrating why one way made the most sense." The 16 Top Tech Policy Developments of 2016 Matthew Colford, Matt Spence, and Ted Ullyot "A key provision of the new deal, approved in July, is that the American government must provide annual, written assurances that American intelligence agencies' access to the European data being transferred will be appropriately limited. But with those assurances, cross-border data transfers are once again up and running; since August, more than 1000 companies have already secured Privacy Shield certification." One Sure-Fire Way to Improve Your Coding Jerod Santo "If you're the adventurous type you may be considering diving into a large project like Ruby on Rails, Drupal, or jQuery. I suggest avoiding projects like these for now unless you are an experienced code reader. Large projects have a lot more moving pieces, and you may end up struggling too much with the concepts to learn anything of immediate value. Confusion leads to discouragement, and larger projects more likely to confuse and discourage you in your reading. The advantage of picking a small project to read is that you can hold the entire program logic in your head at once. This leaves you with just the details to discover and learn from." 10 Things I Learned Making the Fastest Site in the World David Gilbertson "For this project I actually did real mobile first. That is, developed the site with it running on a mobile device. I did this first, and when I was satisfied with the UI and the performance, I went about getting it to work on a big computer." Manage Subscription Submit Event Submit Resource View in Browser You are receiving this email because you believe that the best startup articles and videos are made by active members of the startup community. Startup Digest, © 2009-2016 by Techstars Central LLC. All rights reserved. Startup Digest is a registered trademark of Techstars Central, LLC. Privacy Policy | Terms of Use.

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Startup Reading List - Startup Digest - It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like... - December 23rd - December 30th

Startup Reading List December 23, 2016 To all you startup enthusiasts who are winding down for the year, Merry Christmas and/or Happy Holidays. This is our second to last digest of the year. It's been a blast. Thanks to all of you for subscribing, reading, submitting, commenting, and most important, doing. Startup Reading List Startup Digest is curated by: Zubin Chagpar - @phylosopher Contact Zubin Chagpar at zubin.chagpar@startupdigestmail.com Chris McCann - Community @ Greylock Partners Contact Chris McCann at chris@startupdigest.com Empire FinTech Conference Starting at Just $195, but Act Fast! Hear from those forging new trails in payments, blockchain, lending, robo-advising, insurance tech, real estate and more. In addition to attracting hundreds of FinTech entrepreneurs, the conference also plays host to the investors, bank innovators and service providers that help accelerate startups.  You don't want to miss this - starting at just $195. The Dirty Dozen Phil Nadel "Whereas CAC measures the variable expenses attributable to acquiring customers, Overhead measures the company's fixed expenses incurred irrespective of the number of customers acquired." How and When to Invest in Product Marketing Joanna Lord "Product marketing, at its heart, is about understanding what you're building, why you invested in it, and how it will benefit the user — and then messaging that understanding to your customer." 4 Key Insights from Analyzing 5,000+ Cap Tables Jeron Paul "Few would argue that creating equity value is one of the most important reasons for starting a company. By definition, founders start out with 100% ownership. But it only goes down from there. This concept is called equity dilution." 3 Reasons You Shouldn't Outsource Your Startup Joel Gascoigne "One of the easiest problems for a freelancer to encounter is scope-creep of client projects. If the freelancer or agency is setting a fixed price for the project, they need to take many steps to ensure that the scope of the project doesn't grow beyond what was initially budgeted for." Manage Subscription Submit Event Submit Resource View in Browser You are receiving this email because you believe that the best startup articles and videos are made by active members of the startup community. Startup Digest, © 2009-2016 by Techstars Central LLC. All rights reserved. Startup Digest is a registered trademark of Techstars Central, LLC. Privacy Policy | Terms of Use.

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Health - Startup Digest - December 23rd - December 30th

Health December 23, 2016 Startup Highlight: Open Bionics As always, if you come across news, announcements, videos, or podcasts that you think everyone else would benefit from, e-mail me at scott.munro@startupdigestmail.com or tweet @R_Scott_Munro. Quote of the Week "If our society can seize this moment to unleash the power of innovators to create better models, which allow them to profit from removing waste and finding new efficiencies, we can put ourselves on the path to a satisfying and sustainable health care system." - Jonathan Bush & Michael Chernew, PhD Health Startup Digest is curated by: R. Scott Munro - MBA Candidate at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business Contact R. Scott Munro at scott.munro@startupdigestmail.com Empire FinTech Conference Starting at Just $195, but Act Fast! Hear from those forging new trails in payments, blockchain, lending, robo-advising, insurance tech, real estate and more. In addition to attracting hundreds of FinTech entrepreneurs, the conference also plays host to the investors, bank innovators and service providers that help accelerate startups.  You don't want to miss this - starting at just $195. Investing in Schizophrenia Prevention Could Reduce Costs – and Human Suffering Amitt Bhatt // Russ Miller - Impact Alpha I'm a fan of interesting approaches to solving very tough problems. This piece reviews an approach to financing preventative care for schizophrenia. The hope is that by saving money through preventative care and shifting some of those savings to investors, we might be able to raise more money for preventative care.  Why Obamacare Enrollees Voted for Trump Sarah Kliff - Vox Sarah Kliff dives into Obamacare in Kentucky and how rolling back the legislation will impact the very people that voted for Trump. Many didn't think the insurance they had received would actually go away, as one interviewee mentioned, "You're scaring me now on the insurance part. I'm afraid now that the insurance is going to go away and we're going to be up a creek." Diagnosing Disease with a Snapshot Bonnie Rochman - MIT Tech Review As much as we've made strides with genetic mapping and testing, it's still not a perfect science. Enter Face2Gene, a technology that can help identify genetic diseases through pictures as opposed to through blood tests. This will assist physicians that practice dysmorphology. Read more on it from this MIT Tech Review piece.  QuintilesIMS Projects Slower Drug Spending Growth Through 2021 Jacob Bell - BioPharma Dive A new study from QuintilesIMS shows slower growth in pharma spending (but still growth nonetheless). Mainly they see, "brands losing their patent exclusivity, increasing rebate use among payers, and the U.K.'s Brexit decision to leave the European Union," as some of the main drivers for this slowed growth. Let Efficient Providers Prosper Michael Chernew, PhD // Jonathan Bush, MBA - NEJM Nothing totally ground breaking here, but I'm always interested to see what Jonathan Bush has to say. Here he goes into the obvious benefits of MACRA and alternative payment models in health care, and where our current system breaks down. Certainly worth the read. Manage Subscription Submit Event Submit Resource View in Browser You are receiving this email because you believe that the best startup articles and videos are made by active members of the startup community. Startup Digest, © 2009-2016 by Techstars Central LLC. All rights reserved. Startup Digest is a registered trademark of Techstars Central, LLC. Privacy Policy | Terms of Use.

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3D Printing - Startup Digest - Human flying drone - December 23rd - December 30th

3D Printing December 23, 2016 Hey you! Super lightweight digest this week.  One of the coolest videos I've seen this week is Casey Neistat being lifted by a custom made $120k drone. Anyway, I hope you (and your family) have a great Christmas! See you next week! Dilanka 3D Printing Startup Digest is curated by: Dilanka - Growth @ AstroPrint Contact Dilanka at dilanka.wettewa@startupdigestmail.com Empire FinTech Conference Starting at Just $195, but Act Fast! Hear from those forging new trails in payments, blockchain, lending, robo-advising, insurance tech, real estate and more. In addition to attracting hundreds of FinTech entrepreneurs, the conference also plays host to the investors, bank innovators and service providers that help accelerate startups.  You don't want to miss this - starting at just $195. [GUIDE] - Create models larger than your printer Formlabs - formlabs.com If you ever wondered how you could create HUGE models from a smaller printer, this is a good guide.  [SOFTWARE] - New Ultimaker Mobile App Ultimaker - ultimaker.com This is a newly released mobile app for Ultimaker printer owners that lets you monitor your printer (from the same network) among other things. The page mentions an "online slicing service" which leads me to believe there's a cloud component to this app, but I cannot confirm as I haven't tried it. [NEWS] - Over $1M locked up in Paypal Josef Prusa - prusaprinters.org Last week I covered a tweet from Josef Prusa (creator of the Prusa 3D Printer) complaining about Paypal locking up his company funds for "growing too fast". Well, that figure is at over $1 million dollars. The success is likely due to (other than the quality printers) the Prusa printers appearing on the latest (?) cover of Make Magazine. Anyway, beware of using Paypal if you are running a small business.  Manage Subscription Submit Event Submit Resource View in Browser You are receiving this email because you believe that the best startup articles and videos are made by active members of the startup community. Startup Digest, © 2009-2016 by Techstars Central LLC. All rights reserved. Startup Digest is a registered trademark of Techstars Central, LLC. Privacy Policy | Terms of Use.

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Startup Reading List - Startup Digest - Weekly Reads - December 16th - December 23rd

Startup Reading List December 16, 2016 Enjoy and have a great weekend! Startup Reading List Startup Digest is curated by: Zubin Chagpar - @phylosopher Contact Zubin Chagpar at zubin.chagpar@startupdigestmail.com Chris McCann - Community @ Greylock Partners Contact Chris McCann at chris@startupdigest.com How to Develop Strategic Messaging and Positioning Myk Pono "Messaging is a key part of building any great company. Every business organization has a purpose and vision which leads it to develop products that solve the pain of specific types of customers (or create such customers)." 15 Month Journey To A $1M Run Rate Chase Garbarino "Many venture-backed companies talk about being data-driven, but in the early stages of a company when you have minimal data, how do you truly do this? When you have small traffic and users to measure, the best way to start to collect data points is to talk with real people. Greg Gomer, one of our other co-founders, essentially acted as our first analytics product, talking to hundreds of businesses and providing large amounts of feedback." Scientific Method for Startups Michael Seibel "Tim Robinson, one of our employees at Justin.tv, was building a payments funnel for a new product we were releasing. When trying to figure out what to put on the header and footer of the payment flow the obvious idea was to use the standard header and footer from our website. But instead of thinking, "this is obvious, why would we measure it", he measured everything users did when going through the flow. By measuring he realized instead of moving through the flow with the "obvious" next buttons, users were clicking on the logo at the top of the page, the links on the footers, everywhere!" Case For Startups to Put CX at Their Core Nick Weaver and Dana Lindsay "I started fixing routers in high school, so I know people often need help before they ask. If you can equip customers with what they need before they request it, you've not only tallied a win for your support team, but also for your brand. That's why we have a customer experience — not support — team." Manage Subscription Submit Event Submit Resource View in Browser You are receiving this email because you believe that the best startup articles and videos are made by active members of the startup community. Startup Digest, © 2009-2016 by Techstars Central LLC. All rights reserved. Startup Digest is a registered trademark of Techstars Central, LLC. Privacy Policy | Terms of Use.

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3D Printing - Startup Digest - HO HO ☃️ - December 16th - December 23rd

3D Printing December 16, 2016 Happy Friday, you Scallywag you! This week, we will be covering: 1.) VR and 3D Modeling 2.) The next 25 years of 3D Printing 3.) The history of 3D Printing 4.) Post processing 3D Printed stuff 5.) How to turn any 3D Printable model into an instrument 6.) 3D Modeling software for kids 7.) Vectary 8.) Model of the Week That's it! Hope you've been hitting that treadmill and eating healthy so you have a buffer to gain weight next week :) I am planning on binge watching Westworld and The Walking Dead during my Christmas break in addition to doing a bit of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Until next time, my friend, Dilanka 3D Printing Startup Digest is curated by: Dilanka - Growth @ AstroPrint Contact Dilanka at dilanka.wettewa@startupdigestmail.com [ARTICLE] - Oculus Medium & 3D Printing Adario Strange - mashable.com I mentioned last week about some Interesting VR apps that would help you with modeling 3D designs for 3D Printing. This is a mashable article reinforcing much of the same points I made last week.  [ARTICLE] - The next 25 years of 3D Printing Sarah Goehrke - 3dprint.com I forgot to mention that Inside 3D Printing is happening in San Diego. This article contains some bite sized quotes about the next 25 years of 3D Printing by Hod Lipson. While you read it, keep in mind that every expert has gotten the most fundamental use case of pretty much every disruptive technology thus far. Also, apologies for the shitty website with poor anchor text linking. I realize that it's a huge pain in the ass to read :( At the very minimum, I hope you have an AD Blocker.  [ARTICLE] - The History of 3D Printing Hannah Bensoussan - sculpteo.com If you've ever wondered about the history of 3D Printing, the following is a good summary. Yes, it's 30+ years old.  [DIY] - How to post process your prints Makerbot - makerbot Makerbot printers aren't the greatest, but, this guide is quite good for getting a introductory level overview on how to post-process your 3D Printed designs.  [WHITEPAPER] - Turn a 3D Printable model into an instrument Andrew Liszewski - gizmodo.com The article title says "Simple Software" -- but I couldn't find any software. All I could find was a geeky, math heavy whitepaper on how to turn a 3D printable model into a playable instrument.  A simple online tool to do the conversion would be incredible.  [GUIDE] - Top 8 CAD Software for KIDS Capucine Lonjon - sculpteo.com If you are an educator or work with kids/technology -- you might find this guide helpful for introducing them into computer aided design and 3D Printing. Additionally, if your kids need ideas on what to 3D Print, try using this site. [COMPANY] - Vectary, an online 3D Modeling platform Josh Mings - solidsmack.com Looks like Vectary will have a lot of potential in the cloud based 3D Modeling space. If you are unfamiliar with this new company (who just came out of beta) -- this is a good introduction. Model of the week: T-Rex Skull BLB Industries - Facebook.com This is a cool print. It weighs almost 200 LBs (about 90kg) and took about 24 hours to complete on a custom printer.  Manage Subscription Submit Event Submit Resource View in Browser You are receiving this email because you believe that the best startup articles and videos are made by active members of the startup community. Startup Digest, © 2009-2016 by Techstars Central LLC. All rights reserved. Startup Digest is a registered trademark of Techstars Central, LLC. Privacy Policy | Terms of Use.

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