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How I Use Visualization to Drive Creativity

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So I thought I’d write a post about how I drive my personal creativity. (A It’s why I always work hard to find images for my blog posts & why all of my keynote presentations are visual rather than bullet points with words. The need for creativity extends well beyond product design. What exactly is visualization?

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Announcing Projector?—?A Startup I’ve Been Excited to Tell You About for Years

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We know that good visual storytelling can be persuasive and we know that it is also important to retaining key information after a presentation has been completed or a report has been shared. Think of time spent outlining presentations and swapping online and offline notes with co-authors before you even start building.

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Why Your Startup is More Likely to Succeed if You’re Authentic and Passionate

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Passion is also the featured heavily in nearly every presentation I give to entrepreneurs or on college campuses or in talks with MBA students. Tristan told me that he thought he could design shaving products for people of color that would solve this problem. The reality is quite the opposite.

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Break Out From The Comfort Zone | Networking For Designers

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Most designers, at least the ones I know, hate to network and rarely do it. The key to networking in the tech world is you do not need to be the best in the world, you just need to be passionate, willing to learn and in a lot of cases be the best designer or developer that people know. Reach out to people you want to meet.

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What Should You Send a VC Before Your Meeting?

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The short answer is that you should have multiple versions of your “pitch deck” (a short, visual presentation in Keynote, PPT or similar and shared as a PDF) and each occasion has a specific goal. (This is part of a series on how to improve your fund raising game. The first post & the full outline if you click the link.)

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Everything about Java 8

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At the time of this writing, Java 8 development is still very much in progress. The checked exceptions (if present) in the abstract method's signature matter too. Actually, I think it's so well-designed that even people who have never heard of Joda Time should find it easy to pick up. Language features and APIs may still change.

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My Pal Dave: A Triumph of Substance Over Style

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My pal Dave occasionally presents “headline risks” for investors. I told him only 2 weeks ago when we were in London together that I wanted to write a blog post that has been in my head for 2 years. When he writes them online his Tourette’s comes out and sometimes the substance gets lost in the style. I’ve been told so.

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