Hiring well is among the greatest challenges for early-stage startups with limited resources — and also one of the best predictors of success. The stakes are high, and that’s why it’s important to throw out the list of interview questions you brought with you from your “big tech” role. While…

It’s officially Twitter clone season following Elon’s latest in his quest to destroy $44 billion in market cap and take down a once-beloved platform. Musk’s announced rate-limit directly leads to people spend less time on the platform, discourages engagement, and severely handicaps new CEO Linda Yaccarino’s efforts to breathe life…

In tech, it is the year of the cockroach. There’s no way around it: Zuckerberg’s “year of efficiency” has materialized in the form of mass layoffs at more than 700 tech companies, a rapidly increasing presence of artificially intelligent prompts handling tasks previously managed by humans, and many of the…

A friend recently reached out with a question: “how do I get set up to be paid with bitcoin these days?” Once upon a time, this would be considered a simple question with a simple answer. That’s not the case here in June 2023. The reasons this became complicated are…

Meta’s new Twitter-like text-based social app is, based Lia Haberman’s report, about a month away from landing on your phone. And while details are scarce, select content creators are being briefed about what to expect and we’re starting to get a sense of what’s to come. Here’s what we know. “Threads,” Formerly Codenamed “Barcelona” is a New, Separate App …

As it relates to social media and internet use, it appears the world has signaled a shift in priorities, one that spells danger for players in social media. As I write in my post on Benzinga: “Daily time spent using the internet decreased to a six-year low when it dropped…

Affiliate marketing is a a natural concept: incentivize others to promote your product or service and pay them a commission for each sale. Executed well, it’s one of the most effective and efficient ways to grow the visibility and bottom-line of your e-commerce shop. …

Building the marketing stack for your new ecommerce shop is daunting enough — it seems everyone has an opinion on the best plugins or strategies and they all seem to cost a small fortune. I’m not here to add another one of those to your plate. What I am here…

One of the lesser-told stories of the internet is the shift in content distribution and access brought to the mainstream by Facebook. This isn’t a hot take — most would agree that’s what happened — but the shift is fundamental in a way most aren’t aware of. Facebook spoon-feeding content…