Thomas Korte

• Yahoo Acquires ‘To Do’ App Astrid (AngelPad Spring 2011)
  Congrats to the team at Astrid! It was an amazing journey and I am happy to have been part of it.
• The Culture Hacker : iDoneThis blog
• We have 1000+ paying customers, and how we got there.
• OSX Productivity utilities that every enterpreneur should use

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• Inside a Completely Transparent Company
  Buffer is an AngelPad company and I am fascinated by thier experiemt of being a "completely transparent company".
• 48% of U.S. teens own an iPhone. 62% plan to buy one!
  Interesting stats on the iphone as a status symbol of US teens.
• Stop Trying to Catch Lightning in a Bottle
• 3 Biggest Mistakes When Choosing a Cofounder
  Few founders really think about the implications of a co-founder in the long term. The "co-founder decision" is one of the most important decisions you will make for your startup.

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• Video: Peter Thiel and Reid Hoffman Discuss Startup Success
• Video: "Who do YOU want to be in life?" Arnold Schwarzenegger
  Love him or hate him, but Arnold Schwarzenegger is one of the most inspiring and unlikely success story. Bookmark this video and in moments of doubt watch it.

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• The fab.com story & 10 Tips for Tech Entrepreneurs | betashop
  Thanks @julesterrien for forwarding this post.
• New Employee: What are some things I should do to make a strong impression the first month?
• Video: Marc Andreessen on the age of context via @scobleizer
  It is rare to get 30 minutes with one of the most visionary thinker of Silicon Valley: Marc Andreessen. Watch this and listen. Thanks @scobleizer for the video.

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• How Will Salesforce Adapt To The Next Platform Shift: Mobile Computing?
  Bruce Cleveland is a General Partner with InterWest Partners wrote a great piece about salesforce.com and mobile. I think than every incumbent software company will be challenge by a mobile equivalent.
• The Importance of Scheduling Nothing
• Analytics Academy: Talk to Your Users. Or Else!
• A VC: Video Of The Week: You Are What You Tweet
  Fred

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• Killing your Startup by Listening to Customers
• Bill Gross – Perfect storm of opportunity in mobile today (slides)
  Flip through this deck and reflect on the quantum shift in everything we do because of mobile technologies. There will be dozens of multi-billion dollar companies build around mobile innovation.

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• Reference Check Candidates by Elad Gil
  @eladgil writes one of the best startup advise blogs on the web. You should read all of his posts from the past 3 years – seriously.
• 7 Things That Could Have Killed Twitter, But Didn’t
• Slides: How to create an awesome work culture

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• Video: Why videos go viral
  Ever wondered how a video goes viral. Here is how …. tastemakers, community participation and unexpectedness.
• Understanding How Mobile Drives Conversions
  Google published great insights into mobile usage, ads and conversion rates. It’s worth looking at these slides.
• From this AngelPad application video to $19m in funding in 24 month
  Crittercism just announced their B-round, $12m from Google Ventures, totaling their funding to about $19m in just under two years since they joined AngelPad. They published the AngelPad application video on Quora – worth watching. And if you are a mobile app dev, use their application, it is awesome. Funding announcement: http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/12/crittercism-lands-12m-from-google-ventures-more-to-help-mobile-developers-monitor-app-network-performance/
• Apply now Draper University
  Tim Draper is one of the smartest guys in Silicon Valley. His "university" is amazing. Check it out. Deadline is soon.

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• Study reveals how Amazon is impacting brick-and-mortar retailers
  Retail is changing forever and there is a lot of opportunity for startups to redefine commerce as we know it. Storefront.is is one of the AngelPad companies on the forefront of changing bricks and mortar retail.
• Raising funding as a first-time founder
  Joel from Buffer tells the story about his fundraising after AngelPad. My favorite quote is in his comments: "Before we got into AngelPad we spent a few weeks trying to raise our seed round without going through an incubator. That was a very tough period of time [...]. We’re lucky that we got into AngelPad at the time we did, it was certainly a turning point for us. "
• 25 Free tickets for LAUNCH, March 4-6 San Francsico
  Jason Calacanis and his awesome team gave me 25 free tickets for the 6th annual LAUNCH Festival (http://festival.launch.co) in San Francisco March 4th – 6th. The first 25 people to use the coupon: THOMASK will get a free ticket. If you are to late, tweet this: http://clicktotweet.com/7eU1e I’ll be on stage on Tuesday at 9.15 and host office hours in the afternoon. Hope yo meet some of you there.
• Become a Presidential Innovation Fellows @ The White House
  I usually don’t post jobs on this list – but this one is just to awesome to not share: The Presidential Innovation Fellows (PIF) program pairs top innovators from the private sector, non-profits, and academia with top innovators in government to collaborate during focused 6-12 month “tours of duty” to develop solutions that can save lives, save taxpayer money, and fuel job creation.

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• Student Teams: come to SV with Lightspeed’s Summer Fellowship Program
  great for teams.
• Don’t get a summer job, join Google’s Summer of Code 2013
  Rather than getting a summer job, you can code on a cool project and get paid.
• Student Founders: Spend the Summer @Highland in Silicon Valley
  18k, no strings attached

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