A recession is the best time to invest in startups, but not the best time to raise funds
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Viralogy launches two more projects to empower the Blogging Community
Our goal with Viralogy is to provide the platform that helps promote all of the great bloggers in…
The Art of Being Bad but Good Enough
Author Credibility: Yu-kai Chou Yu-kai Chou created the Octalysis Framework after studying gamification since 2003 — years before…
Stress of a Startup CEO
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The ROI of Social Media
Author Credibility: Yu-kai Chou Yu-kai Chou created the Octalysis Framework after studying gamification since 2003 — years before…
Market to Win, not to Not Lose
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Experience vs. Drive: Which Actually Wins (and Why I Was Right at 22)
I wrote the original version of this post in 2009, the year I turned twenty-three, after a long…
Secret Power: The Bilderberg Group (and Why Conspiracy Content Spreads)
I wrote a short musing in 2009 questioning a viral conspiracy theory that connected then-President-elect Obama to a…
Google Voice Launch: What 17 Years of Product Survival Teaches About Behavioral Design
In 2009, I wrote excitedly about Google launching a new phone service called Google Voice. Reading this post…