Last time, I brought to you the top 15 most prospective startups shaking up the New York scene. This week, we’re looking at the other side of the coin – the New York startups that have already found great success and firmly established themselves in our hearts and minds.
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Dribbble Meetups are self-organized events where designers get a chance for to socialize, talk shop, and foster their local design communities. The events range from the casual, five-person, coffee-shop roundtable to the chef-catered, bar-tended, 200-person extravaganza. Thousands of designers worldwide attend Dribbble Meetups each year, so we decided to host our own.
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GraphQL is a fairly new technology that will let you adjust your data requirements on the fly and increase the efficiency of your app while keeping your current stack.
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Could you please write yet another top 10 key people list for London Tech? Sure, I said. Easier said than done, though. Well, it is easy to collate a list of top 10 influential people in London.
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This week Facebook has officially announced React Fiber, a new version of its popular JavaScript library for building user interfaces. The news from F8 2017 - Facebook Developers Conference that took place on 18-19th April - raised many questions and concerns among founders who developed their apps using React. Is there anything to worry about? Does this mean that they will have to rewrite their apps?
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15 Common Mistakes Startups Make When Pitching to Investors (as Told by VCs Themselves)
Natalia Chrzanowska
The business landscape is packed with visionary startups looking to change the world and make it a better place. Life is not so rosy, though. Plenty of promising startups are destined to misfire, and one of the reasons is the fact that they fail at successfully pitching their businesses to investors. Their ideas can be amazing, but if they can't convince lenders to trust them and share the risk their ventures involve, they might not even get a chance to make it to the market.
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If there is one thing that is certain about the London startup ecosystem, it is the fact that no one knows what is the next big thing. Netguru has been brave enough to list top 10 most promising startups in 2016. We have now checked how our predictions worked and, happy with the accuracy, we take the challenge again.
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Ninety Percent is a game-changer in the fashion industry. They took the challenge of creating a stylish brand that would link latest trends with a sustainable approach towards society and environment. Their main goal is to empower customers to make a difference through fashion. The company allocates 90 percent of their profits to four charitable causes, and customers are the ones who can vote for the cause they wish to support. At the end of the year, the profits will be split between the charities based on the votes.
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These days, Node.js as main back-end technology has already gained enormous following, with world's top companies using Node.js it as key part of their technology stack. We, too, recently included it in our offering - with in-house initiatives like our starter app already proving themselves in real-world projects.
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Hi folks! I’m Darek, a leader and senior RoR developer at Netguru. I joined Netguru when it had 30 members, now we’ve grown to more than 210! Recently, I’ve had a very interesting problem to solve. We wanted to have better knowledge about what skills our people have, what they want to get better at and, last but not least, improve how we assign people to projects. That’s why we introduced “Skills”, a feature in “People”, one of our open-source projects. You can try it out yourself if you want. Let me walk you through the new features!
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