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Mar 23

How to film a mouth-watering video series: 16 tips from the production of Home Cooks of the World

Exactly four years ago, I produced Home Cooks of the World. The cooking show follows Ollie Horn, a foodie standup comedian who travels the world in search of the most talented home cooks. …

Filmmaking

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How to film a mouth-watering video series: 16 tips from the production of Home Cooks of the World
How to film a mouth-watering video series: 16 tips from the production of Home Cooks of the World
Filmmaking

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Oct 6, 2021

Remote job board performance: Best job boards and their ROI

New job boards are springing up like mushrooms after a rain, and startups are left wondering where to post their JDs, and which add-ons to pay for. By the time you 📌 pin your posting for 24h, ⭐ highlight it in yellow, or better yet, your brand colour 🌈, include…

Recruiting

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Remote job board performance: Best job boards and their ROI
Remote job board performance: Best job boards and their ROI
Recruiting

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Oct 14, 2020

Beat the hiring odds with these 5 steps to insightful reference checks

No amount of interviews or online research is enough to truly know someone. That’s why even top companies have a hiring failure rate of 30–50%. Fortunately, there is a simple way to radically improve your chances of success. If you’ve travelled in the pre-internet era, you’ve probably been in this…

Hiring

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Beat the hiring odds with these 5 steps to successful reference checks
Beat the hiring odds with these 5 steps to successful reference checks
Hiring

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Aug 15, 2020

A step-by-step guide to logging Robot Framework RPA events and failures to Bugsnag

The Robot Framework and the RPA tooling the team at Robocorp have built around it are a breath of fresh air in the world of Robotic Process Automation. Robocode makes it easy to get started even if you have no programming experience, yet unlike visual RPAs from UI Path, Automation…

Rpa Tools

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A step-by-step guide to logging Robot Framework RPA events and failures to Bugsnag
A step-by-step guide to logging Robot Framework RPA events and failures to Bugsnag
Rpa Tools

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Jun 8, 2020

Product-market fit pipeline: Make the most of your PMF surveys with Python

Closing the feedback loop using Intercom, Typeform, Airtable, pandas, Plotly and Segment. — Product-market fit is “the moment when a startup finally finds a widespread set of customers that resonate with its product” (Eric Ries). This moment is hard to measure, and most, like Marc Andreessen, suggest you should just “feel” it. It can be disconcerting to blindly wait for a feeling you…

Product

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Product-market fit pipeline: Make the most of your PMF surveys with Python
Product-market fit pipeline: Make the most of your PMF surveys with Python
Product

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Level Up Coding

·Jun 3, 2020

Storing and querying monetary values in Postgres and Hasura

Data types you should and shouldn‘t use for financial information in PostgreSQL, and risks specific to JavaScript and Hasura. — Whatever it is you’re building, there is a good chance you’ll want to monetize the project in the future. And with monetization, come the many challenges of storing and manipulating financial data. Below, I will look at the data types you should and should not use for monetary information in…

Hasura

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Storing and querying monetary data in Postgres and Hasura
Storing and querying monetary data in Postgres and Hasura
Hasura

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UX Collective

·May 28, 2020

Timeless web design: Online portfolios today — and in the year 2000

A nostalgic trip through homepages of brand agencies and type foundries on the cusp of the new millennium. — Philippe Starck, a renowned industrial designer, once said: “A designer has a duty to create timeless design. To be timeless you have to think really far into the future, not next year, not in two years but in 20 years minimum.” Born in 1990, I witnessed the internet evolve from…

Design

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Timeless web design: Online portfolios today — and in the year 2000
Timeless web design: Online portfolios today — and in the year 2000
Design

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May 12, 2020

Starbucks offers: Advanced customer segmentation with Python

How to use cluster analysis to target marketing outreach — This is a Udacity Data Science Nanodegree Capstone project. A small startup can afford to target users based on broad-stroke rules and rough demographics. Once a company grows to the size of Starbucks, with millions of daily customers, and $1.6B …

Data Science

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Starbucks offers: Advanced customer segmentation with Python
Starbucks offers: Advanced customer segmentation with Python
Data Science

8 min read


Published in

The Startup

·Apr 15, 2020

Branding for startups: How to build trust before product

Branding case studies often read as somewhere between obvious and grandiose. You’re either looking at established companies with a 20/20 hindsight, or reading a digital agency portfolio sales pitch. Just as business strategy, real-world branding is in fact neither superfluous, nor inaccessible to mere mortals. Below, I’ll explain why every…

Branding

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Branding for startups: How to build trust before product
Branding for startups: How to build trust before product
Branding

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Published in

UX Collective

·Apr 8, 2020

AC remotes suck; let’s design one that doesn’t

When I teach design, my first two messages are: You don’t need to wait for anybody’s permission Opportunities for improvement are all around you Today, I’m going to put my words into action, and show how a simple air con remote can be improved through the design method. I hope…

Design

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AC remotes suck; let’s design one that doesn’t
AC remotes suck; let’s design one that doesn’t
Design

13 min read

Philip Seifi

Philip Seifi

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Founder https://colabra.app | Cross-pollinating between industries and cultures. | Nomad entrepreneur 🌎 designer 🌸 hacker 💻 | https://seifi.co

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