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• An entrepreneur's guide to Moscow: Scaling between the golden domes

  The majesty of Moscow is no secret, but relatively few Westerners have had the chance to get to know it up close. Fulfilling a longtime dream, a team member recently had the special opportunity to see and explore Russia’s larger-than-life capital. He returned telling us of the awe-inspiring ...

  • Conrad Egusa

• How to decentralize social media, according to Wikipedia’s co-founder

  The problem about social media is that it is centralized. Centralization empowers massive corporations and governments to steal our privacy and restrict our speech and autonomy. What should exist are neutral, technical standards and protocols, like the standards and protocols ...

  • Larry Sanger

• What big cities can learn from the small Swiss town with a driverless bus

  It was like navigating traffic in an electric-powered egg on wheels. The canton of Schaffhausen is just 30 minutes away from the Swiss city of Zurich, but the municipality of 81,000 residents is home to less than one percent of the country’s population. It’s a beautiful and ...

  • Dylan Love

• Here’s how you can properly vet overseas manufacturers for your ecommerce business

  Of all the questions my consulting clients ask, there is one that comes up more often than all the others combined. It goes something like this: “I want to harness the power of overseas manufacturing, but I’m worried about fraud and quality control. How do I vet manufacturers ...

  • Steve Tan

• Luckily, AI still needs humans to succeed

  Humans look at AI in both awe and fear. When I tell folks that I work for a company that builds AI-powered virtual assistants, they frequently ask me if AI is close to becoming sentient. Is it close to becoming human? Are we fast approaching a future where Skynet from the Terminator ...

  • James Freeze

• Google, Facebook, and Amazon’s not-so-secret weapon for success: M&A

  Whether you’re an entrepreneur or an established CEO, growing your business is always job number one. It’s how you’ll conquer an industry, make a name for yourself, and truly change the world. You may have staked your money on one big idea that paid off, but the next crucial ...

  • Robert Koven

• Think about death when you start your next company

  Back in high school, my favorite teacher said to me: ”Jonathan. Remember to die a little every day.” Back then, I thought it was a strange thing to say. Both him and I were and are generally optimistic people, so why even bother thinking about such a sad thing as death? And ...

  • Jonathan Løw

• 3 types of AI that represent our fears for the future

  The AI icon Andrew Ng is quoted as saying, “Artificial intelligence is the new electricity.”  For anyone reading this, that’s a powerful analogy. Electricity empowers our surge in science and globalization over the past 100+ years, but the analogy falters in one overlooked ...

  • Gant Laborde

• Taylor Swift is watching you watching her

  In 2018, face recognition technology (“FRT”) stumbled from childhood into adolescence in commercial applications. It ...

  • Brahim Bénichou

• 15 strategies everyone should know to protect their online information

  As technology increases at an ever-faster rate, so too do the ways in which our information can be put at risk. With the ...

  • Scott Gerber

• Just like the Kindle, our AI and AR future will be here sooner than we think

  Boris is the wise ol’ CEO of TNW who writes a weekly column on everything about being an entrepreneur — from managing stress to embracing awkwardness. You can also get his musings straight to your inbox by signing up for his newsletter! On January 1st, 1997, Nicolas Negroponte ...

  • Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten

• Your company is losing mobile customers - here are three ways to optimize mobile experiences right now

  When’s the last time you booked a Lyft or Uber or ordered a meal on DoorDash using your laptop? Many popular apps and services ...

  • Brian Solis