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erict19

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Trying to help entrepreneurs around the world find traction.

Feel free to email me at Erict19 at google's email service

My personal website is EricTyler.com

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medium.com 9y ago

The future of your virtual identity

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www.youtube.com 9y ago

Data Proves Amazon Reviews with Free or Discounted Disclaimer Are Extremely Biased

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www.cgap.org 10y ago

Optimizing for the next billion users

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www.buzzfeed.com 10y ago

Small Social Networking Is Here

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qz.com 11y ago

Privacy researchers have come up with a new way to track your phone

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www.wired.com 12y ago

Biz Stone: How I Faked My Way Into Google

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beglobality.com 12y ago

Show HN: our network scoring algorithm for entrepreneurs

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www.youtube.com 12y ago

Show HN: 37 second video that explains our new startup Globality

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globality.be 12y ago

Rethinking How To Approach Your Social Networks

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www.techinasia.com 12y ago

What I learned in my first year as an angel investor in China

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boss.blogs.nytimes.com 12y ago

Best Small-Business Posts of 2013

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globality.be 12y ago

MOOCs for tech entrepreneurs

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qz.com 12y ago

2014 is the year smartphones will hit $20

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globality.be 12y ago

Show HN: Our startup toolbox - curated by tech entrepreneurs around the world

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voices.mckinseyonsociety.com 12y ago

Digital start-ups for the developing world

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bits.blogs.nytimes.com 12y ago

Would Steve Jobs have become a philanthropist?

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mobile.nytimes.com 12y ago

Mapping Bitcoin

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voices.mckinseyonsociety.com 12y ago

From Mckinsey & Company: How to help entrepreneurs in fragile states

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www.economist.com 12y ago

Why the world needs women entrepreneurs (in the Economist)

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www.nytimes.com 12y ago

Toy Story: an immigrant entrepreneurial journey in America

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blogvio.com 12y ago

Blovio - Easily customize photo, video and audio widgets

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m.technologyreview.com 12y ago

Algorithm Writes People's Life Histories Using Twitter

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news.ycombinator.com 12y ago

Ask HN: What is your advice for showcasing a beta website on HN?

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www.wired.com 12y ago

Avoiding a Lost Generation: Young Entrepreneurs Need Support

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edition.cnn.com 12y ago

11 startups + Google execs +Stanford professors + Nobel Laureate + ship =?

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www.slate.com 12y ago

Map of the World's Most Popular Websites

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news.ycombinator.com 12y ago

What do you think is the best free online tool for entrepreneurs?

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One year in #stripe 11 years ago

I've heard similar issues with startups I work with in SE Asia and East Africa. In a similar vein to the Alipay integration you mention, I was also recently meeting with a handful of startups in Nairobi, and we were discussing how an integration with M-Pesa would be awesome, in particular as Safaricom recently opened up their API.

Thanks ritwikt for trying it out, Linkedin's API has proven to be a bit finicky compared to Facebook's API. At the moment, because we're also focused on mapping your social network and ironing out the details, we have quota score of 50 for testing out the full platform.

I love stories of this kind of successful anonymous collaboration. I can't help but think that they will only become more common/cross-border. Keep it up!

We were hoping that being able to poke around and see all the rankings and lists of resources in the different categories would give the user a sense for what we're trying to do. And I hear what you're saying - we'll work on changing these conditions - thanks again for the feedback, much appreciated.

Thanks for the feedback wavesounds, and I definitely hear what you're saying. You've convinced me to make the change - we'll make sure to flag to the wider team for the next iteration!

Thanks for the feedback krrishd! We changed the toolbox restrictions, so visitors can access the full toolbox contents without signing up (need to sign in only to view the resources profile pages and for commenting/voting)

And per your previous feedback, agreed - in the next iteration, we're planning on making the tags less prominent. Would love to hear others' feedback if they have it!

We added a sign up to track votes and comments on the resources (so users wouldn't be able to vote more than once). These lists are opening up months of our market research, and you can see all of them without signing up (sign up allows you to see a description and as mentioned, allows for commenting and voting for those that are interested). We're also finishing up the core of the site focused on personal social network analytics: https://globality.be/features which I am excited about.

Thanks! The MOOCs and the "technical development tools" (things like javascript frameworks and databases) seem to be the most popular resources so far. The larger toolbox started out as compilation of the tools identified during our market research with tech entrepeneurs and then to keep it updated and relevant, we decided to crowdsource its ongoing curation. I did a Show HN a couple of weeks back, but it got bombarded with downvotes off the bat. Happy to answer questions if people have them

Thanks for the feedback/questions aaoun.

Re: gaming the system, you have to sign up/login with an email to vote and comment. Every new tool that is added we review to make sure the tagging is correct/it fits with a startup's scope.

And our use case is focused on helping tech entrepreneurs identify new tools as a task come up. So when you are thinking about migrating to RDBMS database, you can check out what databases other tech entrepreneurs have found useful/endorse as well as find options if you're looking for accounting software that is geared towards entrepreneurs.

Incorporate diversity into your learnings. Different courses, different approaches, different viewpoints, different news outlets, different acquaintances, and even different Twitter followers. It will help instill a more well rounded perspective.

Not only wrong, but Wikipedia usage is thriving in emerging markets - thanks to Wikipedia Zero (modeled off of Facebook Zero which despite data consumption cost mobile user $0). Fascinating I say...