Xavier Yelmo

Added to my podcast player (Downcast) for commute! ;p

My favorite podcasts about the business of tech / startups.

From episode description: —————————————— Ben and James briefly discuss ad-blockers, then admit it’s an academic debate and move on to the business of advertising and the far more profound shifts that are caused on the Internet and by new places on the Internet. Note: This podcast references Marco Arment’s Peace application, but was recorded before Marco pulled the app. Please see the relevant...

From the episode description ————————————————————————— BuzzFeed is one of the most important and successful new media companies, tying together deeply reported impact journalism with content optimized for the digital age. Peter Kafka talks with founder and CEO Jonah Peretti, and later on, The Verge’s Lauren Goode discusses the Apple event and Jason Del Rey dishes about digital payments.

From the episode description: ————————————————————————— Why do startups fail? What are the best ways to scale up and grow your customer base? How do you test and verify new business ideas? In this episode, we're joined by Brian Balfour (VP of Growth at HubSpot) to discuss different user acquisition and growth tactics, as well as the major mistakes that all startups should avoid. "The landscape...

@rrhoover I'm not an avid user of DuckDuckGo but for years I've toying with it, and it's amazing what Gabriel (@yegg) and his team have accomplished.

Mitch Joel and Gabriel Weinberg talk about how to build a search engine and compete with Google (DuckDuckGo) or how to self-publish a book about startup traction (Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth).

Today, Pocket announced v6.0, and with it comes a major update: Recommendations. As explained in their own blog, "Recommendations takes the absolute best content being saved across Pocket and tailors it to your own saving and reading habits. The result is a feed that’s completely unique and personalized to you, and is filled with the most interesting articles and videos you might have missed...

This is awesome! When you think Buffer can't become better and its team nicer… they always prove you wrong!!

I've been using the Pro version for a while, it's a great audio player and THE BEST audiobook player in the AppStore (and I've tried most of them). You should try it! ;D

I'm just starting to toy with it, but it's very promising.

Right now, this plan isn't available in Spain, but it'll be soon and help Rdio introduce new users to the service. Yes, I've always preferred Rdio to Spotify :)

Amazing!! The Marvel nerd inside me will spend a lot of time browsing this site.