Growth
Sponsored by TQ
TQ is a label for growth. We help push tech startups towards exponential growth by providing them with community, events and facilities.
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How Ring went from Shark Tank reject to Amazon’s $1B acquisition
Just five years ago, wireless doorbell company, Doorbot -- now Amazon’s billion-dollar Ring -- was a team of eight struggling to make ends meet in CEO Jamie Siminoff’s Pacific Palisades garage. Desperate for investment, Siminoff took a gamble and applied for season five of ABC’s ...
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8 key takeaways from the Growth Quarters stage at TNW2018
TNW Conference 2018 went by in a flash. As we cut off our now-manky wristbands and start getting tagged in embarrassing photos from the afterparty, let's instead reminisce about all the incredible content witnessed at the first ever Growth Quarters stage hosted by TQ and Google for ...
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7 tactics you can implement right now to grow your startup
As a first-time founder or entrepreneur, knowing where to start when it comes to scaling your business can be extremely overwhelming. With an overabundance of resources telling you the right way to grow your startup, focusing on the wrong thing before having the basics down pat could ...
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How salary transparency can lead to a more trusting workplace
As many tech companies scramble to become more diverse and inclusive, unequal pay has been found to be the top factor impacting inequality in the workplace. To fix this problem, some companies have made the bold move of going transparent with employee salaries. However, this brings ...
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Gaza’s thriving tech scene is its lifeline to the rest of the world
Through the media’s narrow lens, the Gaza Strip is a land of sealed borders, numerous conflicts, and an unemployment rate hovering around 50 percent. An unlikely consequence of this repression, however, is the city’s thriving tech scene which has become its lifeline to the rest ...
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Goodbye you stupid pitch: 2 essential tools to make PR and journalism play nice
PR professionals and journalists aren't going to make up of their own accord. So, could using tech as the mediator to build ...
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Why understanding your indirect competition is key to acquiring customers
This article is written by product strategy expert Des Traynor, co-founder, and CSO of Intercom. If you’d like to hear ...
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10 soothing tech tools to keep you happy at work
Work takes up a lot of our time, or around 92,120 hours over our lifetime, to be exact. So, it’s not hard to work out why being happy at work is so important. Studies have found that happy workers are healthier, more productive, and even more likely to get promoted. So how ...
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How and why you should include diversity in your business strategies
The results are in: Diversity drives business success (and in far more ways than just profit). A diverse workplace can make you feel more comfortable expressing yourself, helping you bring your best ideas, your best work, and your best self. Also, a company’s openness to a wider ...
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Baking mischief and delight into your products will make people love them
You should never underestimate the power of making people happy. Here are four tips from Techstars' Eamonn Carey to help ...
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I went to work as a telepresence robot to see if it can cure loneliness
While difficult to observe, loneliness and isolation are major social issues leading to problems like anxiety, depression, and a mortality rate four times higher than obesity, to name a few. One Norwegian startup, however, is on a mission to conquer this problem and believes telepresence ...
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Introducing Growth Quarters: TQ and Google for Entrepreneurs stage at TNW Conference 2018
This year for the first time, TQ and Google for Entrepreneurs are teaming up to present the newest track at TNW Conference ...
