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New York-based designer and art director Min Kim uses typography and music to tell stories. Besides his work as a Senior Designer at Google, Kim has an impressive freelance career, as seen by his recent work for Lil Nas X's Tales of Dominica video and 'Life After Salem,' where he designed the ornate typography system for the musician's first tour.
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Most companies are. That's why teams at Shopify, Uber and Gong are using Fellow [6], the #1 rated Meeting Productivity software [6] on G2. → AI meeting recording, transcription and summaries [5] integrated in every meeting note and calendar event.
a16z has put together this list of 50 startups tackling some of America’s most pressing problems around defense, energy, transportation, and manufacturing. All of them are using AI in some form to accelerate their efforts. If you’re curious about real-world applications of AI, this contains great insights.
Many startups are crippling their growth efforts by overlapping some basic realities. True growth is not a hack and it can’t be achieved unless you’ve figured out PMF for your core business line. Here’s a list of things to be conscious of if you’re a founder with a growth team or in the market looking for that ideal hire.
Onboarding a new hire isn’t just about setting them up with their laptop and getting them access to Slack, it’s a key business process that many overlook. This article breaks down all the signals that suggest you’ve hit a bottleneck in your onboarding process as a scaling startup and explains how to overcome them.
In this post, the Head of Partnerships at Pigment discusses the importance of becoming partner-first, addressing digital transformation mandates, and helping your partners get promoted as a strategy for success.
Love or loathe it, investors want to know your ARR. Here’s a breakdown of how larger tech companies like DataDog, Dropbox, and UI Path calculate this metric.
Somewhat 101, but if you’re new to the topic, this is a decent read. This article breaks down the basics of debt and equity funding, pros and cons, and when you should consider these options at your startup.
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DNS is an often-overlooked aspect of network security, despite being the 1st step of almost every malicious attack. Control D [14] makes DNS an easy problem to solve. Block malicious domains, unwanted content and browse faster on all devices. The best part? It’s so easy your grandma can (probably) use it [14]. Available for personal use and teams of all sizes.
Bring your website to life with interactive shoppable videos.
Automated time tracking for software teams.
Create personalized AI workflows without needing to know how to code.
There’s been a lot of layoff headlines so far in 2023. Brex was the most recent, laying off 20% of its staff. This article argues the layoffs are the result of two converging trends – a drop in venture funding, particularly in fintech, and a rising cultural force at play that’s inspiring companies to run lean and use layoffs as a way to pivot away from projects or reshape the company.
Microsoft's layoffs last year signaled a potential industry-wide growth slowdown. Microsoft is a mature company with pretty solid predictive capabilities around its revenue forecasts. If Microsoft is worried about the macro, should the rest of us?
NRR is a new term defined as a startup that boomed in 2021 and then kinda fell out of PMF but won enough users in that period and has high enough customer retention to stay alive. They’re not really growing, but they’re also not really failing. Pulling out of this slump is hard - this article touches on how to do it.
Conventional wisdom says you should hire smart people and leave them to it. Fine if you’re a well-funded startup that can afford super smart people, but what if you hire someone who has a little less experience? This article suggests early micromanagement AKA guidance is the way and it provides a light framework for you to use.
We sometimes confuse product managers for project managers, but their job isn’t to manage product deadlines. The highest value thing they can do is to continually align business objectives with user needs, using technology as the glue.
In the early days of developing an idea, it’s critical that you challenge every assumption behind that idea. You need to build a decision-making framework and the capability to disagree and commit. Without it, you’re just arguing in circles. Awareness of whether you’re arguing or debating is key to getting things done when the people involved might disagree.
The Akamai Security Intelligence Response Team (SIRT) has discovered vulnerabilities in multiple Hitron DVR device models that are actively being exploited. The vulnerabilities allow an authenticated attacker to achieve OS command injection using default credentials. Hitron Systems has released new firmware versions to address the vulnerabilities and advises users to upgrade to firmware version ≥ 4.03.
Ars Technica and Vimeo were used to covertly serve malware via a novel attack hiding in image/video links. Payloads were disguised as Base64-encoded random strings. The first-stage infected devices and then fetched the strings, decoding them to install second-stage malware.
AI is transforming cybersecurity with machine learning to adapt to evolving threats. This post dives into how AI has been evolving over the last two decades, from spam filters to predictive analytics. This rise has democratized AI, empowering more sophisticated attacks. While AI is indispensable for modern cyber protection, its dual-use nature poses risks.
The Mandiant FLARE team has released a new version of FLOSS that contains specialized algorithms for extracting strings from Go and Rust binaries. These languages use structs to determine string length as opposed to null-terminated strings which leads to strings.exe struggling to extract strings. This post includes details of how strings are stored in the languages and how FLOSS detects them.
A post from Red Canary that looks at Kubernetes security through the 4C security model with a particular focus on Container and Cluster threat models. The Container section focuses on issues such as malicious containers and on-the-fly containers. The Cluster section focuses on common misconfigurations and contains remediation advice.
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Single Pane of Glass (SPOG) has long been derided as vendor-speak. But is it actually useful in describing the way enterprises manage vulnerabilities in sprawling IT environments [11]? In this upcoming webinar, Scott Kuffer, Co-Founder and COO of Nucleus Security [11] and a special expert guest, will discuss what a SPOG actually is, and offer actionable tips for elevating your vulnerability management
Agentless vulnerability scanner for Linux, FreeBSD, Container, WordPress, Programming language libraries, and Network devices.
Tomcter is a Python tool developed to brute force Apache Tomcat manager logins with default credentials. Tomcter also works with proxychains.
APIDetector is a multithreaded tool for testing exposed Swagger endpoints in various subdomains. It is customizable and can test http or https endpoints. APIDetector features false-positive detection capabilities.
A blog post from TryHackMe that suggests ways to gain experience in cybersecurity. The suggestions include work placements, volunteering, CTF events, networking, home labs, bug bounties, and open source projects.
The saga continues between OpenAI and the Italian Data Protection Authority (DPA). The DPA concluded that available evidence pointed to the existence of breaches of the provisions contained in the EU GDPR.
This article discusses the release of two new versions of the Cloned Website Canarytoken, which alerts users when an attacker is using an Adversary-in-the-Middle attack against their sites.
This report highlights how ransomware is becoming more dangerous year over year.
GitLab has released an update fixing a critical security vulnerability. Update ASAP.
South Korea’s National Intelligence Service has warned that North Korean hackers have begun utilizing generative AI, leading to fears that these tools will be utilized to influence elections and spread misinformation.
Threads tripled its downloads month-over-month in December. It placed in the top 10 most downloaded apps for the month across both the App Store and Google Play. The growth was likely due to the push Meta had given the app by displaying ads on Facebook that featured Threads’ viral posts. The app could also be benefiting from its move into the fediverse - the social network comprised of interconnected servers that communicate via the ActivityPub protocol.
Universal Music Group has accused TikTok of bullying, saying the company wanted to pay a fraction of the rate other social media sites pay for access to its music catalog. As a result, Universal will stop licensing its content to TikTok when its contract expires on January 31. This will remove TikTok’s access to music from artists like Taylor Swift, The Weeknd, and Drake.
Alphabet's shares plunged after disappointing ad revenue results attributed to tough competition alongside mixed economic signals in the US. Its low ad revenue numbers suggest that companies are still uncertain about the pace of interest rate cuts from global central banks.
All brands, regardless of their stature or intentions, have flaws. Marketers should embrace these imperfections as opportunities for compelling storytelling and differentiation. It creates more human-centric content that resonates with audiences, building trust and authenticity by moving beyond traditional messaging structures and taking calculated risks.
Offering users a free trial of the full premium service on signup can increase conversion to paid premium by up to 40% compared to offering a freemium option that doesn’t require starting with a trial. This is known as a reverse trial, which drops down to a freemium tier if the trial expires. This tactic is effective because it creates a sense of loss. The user is able to experience the full functionality of premium, so being downgraded to the free tier highlights the new limitations. This psychologically makes them more likely to convert to a paid subscription.
SMTPing is a tool that improves email deliverability. Its free features include email verification to improve your email sender reputation. With a paid plan, you can access more email verification credits, the email warm-up feature, integrations with email applications, and more.
For many consumers, Spring is a time to declutter and break old habits. This article compiled emails from brands like Prose, Away, Tattly, and Legacybox to use as inspiration in leveraging the spring season into your email content strategy.
Good hooks get attention and are able to sustain it, are presented to the user immediately, and are not misleading or fake. This article delves into the science behind effective social media hooks. It presents examples from Instagram and TikTok posts, including quizzes or Q&As, text posts, trend hopping, and useful videos or tutorials.
Unlike many other SaaS companies, CreatorKit invests in a TikTok strategy to reach its audience. The brand succeeds by creating educational content that hooks users, keeps them entertained, and empowers them to take action. CreatorKit achieves “Content-Platform Fit” by posting videos that fit TikTok users’ unspoken norms and standards. This involves using hashtags, POV videos, popular sounds, and other tricks. CreatorKit proves that TikTok can be an effective marketing channel for SaaS brands.
This post contains common signs that your website isn’t converting as well as it could. Check to see if your site has product descriptions that are text blocks with no bullet points or icons. Fix any cases where your products have less than 10 reviews or no customer images. Avoid using technical words or jargon that your users often won't understand. Be sure to explain whether users have to pay for return delivery.
Danny Sullivan, Google's Search Liaison, replied to a post on X with very specific feedback on how to make an article more helpful. The article in question had experienced a severe drop in traffic from Google Search. Much of the feedback was around how information in the article could potentially be unclear or misleading to users. The article mentioned products that weren’t yet available, which could be unsatisfying for users. Sullivan also called out how the article claimed to be updated, yet included outdated information.