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  • Founder Reasons

    I’d wager that if founders were to dig deeper and were to be honest with themselves, they’d find that many of them start startups not motivated by some lofty mission to change the world/make it a better place. Beyond having an idea and wanting to make a product or sell a service that you think…

    Vineet Thanedar

    January 16, 2016
    thoughts
  • Simplifying Problems

    While thinking about a piece of user experience that just wasn’t lending itself to the “right” solution no matter the approaches, I wished, what if I were to just not have to solve it? Following that line of thinking, I finally arrived on an experience that was much better. How? By not having to deal with it. Well,…

    Vineet Thanedar

    January 13, 2016
    thoughts
  • Design Full Circle

    This pretty much sums up, in my experience, how ux/ui design has almost always gone.

    Vineet Thanedar

    January 10, 2016
    thoughts
  • Why start your own company?

    1) To pursue a unique vision of how you, your co-founder(s), and your team think (some) things ought to be in the world and 2) To create a workplace that people like working at more than any other company they previously worked at. Simple as that. PS: as I learn more in the process of…

    Vineet Thanedar

    January 10, 2016
    thoughts
  • UX + Design

    Many decisions and elements go into making a successful technology product/service. In my opinion, getting the user experience:design equation right in an app or website is quite possibly the most important first step. I’ve discovered that it’s significantly harder than it seems at first. A great user experience with mediocre design – useful but it might make your…

    Vineet Thanedar

    January 9, 2016
    thoughts
  • 1311

    That’s how many working days I’ve spent over the past 5 years and 3 months working at CrunchBase and TechCrunch. Today is my last day at CrunchBase. It will be the final time I walk in and out of the building (at least to “go to work”). I came to TechCrunch by a stroke of fate. I…

    Vineet Thanedar

    January 8, 2016
    thoughts
  • Good reads this week

    Great advice from First Round Capital’s portfolio companies Smart chat bots, and how they might be the next big, killer “app” Fascinating way of looking at time (and the year ahead) and how it’s relative. – I loved this! Obama/US foreign policy needs to pick a side – Saudi Arabia or Iran? – The article leans…

    Vineet Thanedar

    January 6, 2016
    thoughts
  • Online Reading

    tl;dr – don’t read this (or any on this blog) post. I’ve always read a ton of general and diverse stuff online – articles, blog posts, opinion pieces etc. I read books too but comparatively less (in time spent). A phenomenon I’ve noticed off late is that the constant barrage of reading material on the web has turned my brain to…

    Vineet Thanedar

    January 3, 2016
    thoughts
  • Civilizations, Uber, and World War III

    Civilizations I was in Mexico over the Thanksgiving break. Between Mexico City, Oaxaca, and Tulum, I saw the ruins of different, distinct civilizations that once upon a time populated Mexico – the Teotihuacans, Mexicas, Aztecs, Zapotecs, and the Mayans. They each had their birth, glory days, and decline. The decline was almost always slow if…

    Vineet Thanedar

    November 30, 2015
    thoughts
  • 215: Purpose

    Is there a rhyme or reason to why we are here? In this vast universe, floating all by ourselves not a soul in sight, not another life we know of We tell ourselves, I am but a pale, blue dot Pause for a moment, take a deep breath, close your eyes you are just a…

    Vineet Thanedar

    August 3, 2014
    2014
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