Startups: How To Accomplish The Impossible

When you are facing an impossible task, you need to step back and look at the reason for the perceived impossibility of the task. What makes the impossible and why?.

There are instances when you are truly in an impossible situation and that is often defined by externalities outside of your control. What I’m talking about here is a task that for anyone else seems impossible except for you. Building a company from zero to a successful enterprise is an impossible task for most people. If you are in a startup you already took the plunge into impossible tasks. This post is about how to make the next jump and continue to grow your company. First of all, impossible is a premature acceptance of failure. It is a way to give in to the pressure before giving it your best. This perception is fueled by foggy emotions, unrealistic vision and a lack of a solid process. What you need to achieve is clarity and then you can truly decide whether the task is impossible or not.

Beauty and Purpose: Most Popular Apps and Web Services in 2011

What makes you become a fan of an app on your iPhone? Is it that all your friends are on it and you feel the need to use it? Or maybe you use it as a tool for work wherever you are. To answer this question, we asked our team of user interface designers, iOS developers and user experience experts to look down at their iPhones and iPads and to report what are the apps they use the most. The key of this experiment is that our app development team was reporting on their usage as a normal user not as an expert. Now, you might want to dismiss this information as not representative of a normal user. After all, it comes from directly from the hands of people that are building apps and doing usability studies all day long. But you’d be wrong to dismiss it. Let me explain.

How I Ran The 2011 San Francisco Half-Marathon And Lived to Tell The Tale.

That last stretch was so difficult, draining and challenging. The tiniest hill became hard. But I couldn’t stop. I wouldn’t stop. Not in the last three miles. I was exhausted and losing strength. Looking down at my watch I saw that my speed wasn’t terrible (9:00 per mile) and I decided to conserve the pace. To my surprise, very few runners passed me in the last stretch. That last stretch was about camaraderie and making it happen. I was on the verge of finishing but with the real possibility of failing. Failing didn’t scare me. What I was fearful of was feeling that I didn’t give it my best, so I kept pushing one leg in front of the other and remembering the routine I’d practiced in my runs at the Stanford Dish. I repeated it out loud. Land soft, push back, lift the other foot, take a short stride and repeat. Breathe. Keep your back straight. Don’t worry about the distance. Be fearless.

Localuncle.com: Is it Really Just Another Question-and-Answer Site? The CEO’s answer.

I think that specialization is the key in the location-based Q&A services as well, and to LocalUncle’s founder this is also clear. Taking this into account, Philip Estrada Reichen -a Swiss-Mexican engineer and web entrepreneur who graduated at the same university where Einstein got his Physics degree- carefully manages his Q&A site which has the same concept as Quora but focused entirely on location and points of interest.

Food Extra Will Tell You What You Are Eating Right Now [South America's Startups]

Food Extra is one of the few South American Startups that has managed to set up its offices in the Silicon Valley, the Disney World of Technology. The way to Silicon Valley is quite bumpy for every company, but it even more so for those enterprises from the southern hemisphere. However, Food Extra gambled and earned its spot on Lytton Avenue in the city of Palo Alto and among the “big ones” in the technology field.

“Specialization is the key in a world of abundant and low cost information”, claims Sebastian Nader in an article he wrote last year. Sebastian Nader and Fernando Valdivia are the founders of this Argentinean Startup which is focused on social food traceability. The term traceability refers to the number of procedures used to track a product through all stages of production, processing and distribution.

Inside South America’s Most Innovative Startups

Latin America has become one of the most productive regions within the digital arena, showing fantastic potential in technological innovation. In this blog post I want to go further and tell you what is happening right now inside of South America’s most innovative Startups. Prepare to be surprised. Argentina, Colombia, Uruguay, Brazil and more! Check it out and if you know of other really cool startups that we should write about please let us know.

Nhuma: Creating Useful Mobile Apps for Daily Life and Showcasing Argentina’s Entrepreneurial Promise.

Silvia Mann and Raul Vargas live in Córdoba. Silvia’s brother Sergio and his wife Paula Salinas live in Mendoza. These Argentine cities are 10 hours away from each other and yet these four young entrepreneurs bridged that gap and formed Nhuma Expansion Technologies, a startup that develops mobile applications. Nhuma has won international recognition in just a few months since the launch of their first two applications.

Nhuma’s main goal is to create useful apps for daily life. Nhuma’s creative approach is to focus on the symbiotic relationship between people and their smart phones. They understand that the smart phone has become an integral part of people’s daily life so they create applications that help people handle the daily routine in a more efficient way.

Applications for daily life don’t need to be overly utilitarian or monotone. They can truly be fun and can help you solve a problem in a fun and effective way, as Nhuma has shown. In fact, Silvia’s experience as a mother was the raw material that the team used to create their two applications: Your pregnancy, Week by Week and Crazy Weather.

South America’s Top Technology Events for 2011. A Technology Renaissance

The recent activity in the technology sector is giving birth to a nascent technology scene with great potential in South America and the US Latino market.

South America is leapfrogging and rapidly becoming a more suitable and popular destination for technology events. The enthusiasm and entrepreneurial spirit is starting to reach a boiling point across the region, making it a prime spot for top-notch talent recruitment and a desirable market in its own right.

This new awakening is in great part due to the exponential growth and penetration that the Internet has had in the region. The Internet has provided an efficient channel for freedom of thought and expression for the younger generation. This generation is not bounded by the remembrance of oppressive regimes, as it is the case with the prior one.

The young are empowered to pursue their dreams and to break down social and geographical barriers.

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