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Hello, Hugo! Welcome to my blog. Things did not change that much, did they? Well, actually, they did: I moved from Ghost to Hugo. Hugo is one of many static site builders. I started blogging around 2006 on WordPress, stopped it, and came back to blogging with Ghost in late 2014. Eventually, I feel now really free. WordPress in the early days was a handy tool for bloggers in 2006-ish and became a…
ProductHunt, BetaList, TechCrunch, Hacker News, Reddit and other sites all have a huge impact on the traction a startup or a bootstrapped micro service might gain at the very beginning. I was looking for some metrics of how successfull startups will become after they have been featured on those sites. So I played around with ProductHunt, CrunchBase and Angellist APIs to get some insights into the…
After I attended several hackathons in the past either as participant, mentor or team captain, I’ve had the pleasure to be one of the co-initiators of the innovate.healthcare hackathon. Throwing a hackathon goes far beyond the stress level than participating one, especially, if you try to do this – as in our case – without a noteworthy budget. Be specific If you think about throwing your own…
Health Care and Life Sciences are amongst the most regulated sectors of the world. The way modern health care systems work is strongly influenced by different gate-keeping systems. Big pharma mostly thinks of “blockbuster pills”, leaving people suffering from orphan diseases alone, most of the time. Also, customized medicine does not fulfill the patterns the industry got used to for…
OK, Yahoo did it: After launching Wall Art, they will finally sell prints from CC-licenced photos of their Flickr users. The internet is embarrassed. But why? Actually, the “commercial” flag of those CC-universe was exactly invented for this what it claims to be invented for: “commercial usage”. It sounds a bit like the argumentation in the religious wars between BSD and…
Dear Apple, I got my latest MacBook Pro model only a short while ago. Of course I’ve heard about the Yosemite thing you were going to roll out. And now have. And, of course, I understand that software evolves continiously. However, I have not yet upgraded to Yosemite. My main reason was that I really liked the old system font and I dislike Helvetica on big devices. Ok, but that is really…
German publishers lobbied for some kind of “lex Google”. It will prohibit small extractions from press articles to be used as snippets in search result or news aggregators. Basically, search engines or news aggregators are required to pay royalty fees if they use those 140-something characters of a press text for preview purposes. The publishers who forced that law are now organized in…
Photo by Ralf Roletschek - CC BY SA Hackathons are great events for startup guys. They can be used to validate your idea, to find likeminded people and eventually to actually found your business with the help of other co-founders, mentors and even investors. However, please keep in mind that hackathons usually charge a fee for application. While there is nothing wrong with that, it means that you…
Photo by Colourbox. All rights reserved. “One of the smartest VCs has a ominous warning for the tech industry“: Business Insider on Sep, 15. Ten days later: “Another top investor sounds the alarm”. People in the startup community are getting used to announcements of large startup exists or incredibly high venture capital rounds. So, one question arises: Are we in another…
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Yes, this blog got mentioned on HackerNews. It was even position one for a short time! It was Saturday, around 8pm CEST, when the blog post about Google+ made it to the front page. It may have felt like this. However, I am happy I had dinner with my girlfriend in the city when the hell broke over my web server stats, so I noticed the impact not till I came back home.
Google started its Google Plus as a social network. In the beginning, it grew rapidly because Google forced everyone to create a Google+ profile when signing up for any of their other services. This practise has now become history. Google added a “No thanks” button right after the account creation page where you can now resign such an account. However, Google clearly states that a…
Robert Solow, Nobel prize winner and economist, is first and foremost known for the growth model he described. As an active researcher Solow steadily (pun intended) tries to validate his growth theory and he came to an interesting conclusion regarding to the rise of productivity of IT: According to his research, a rise in productivity due to computerization is unobservable. This story has recently…
Uber is the new kid on the block and a rising startup star. The losers: Taxis. For digital natives it is easy to blame the taxi drivers for being technophobic and to laugh about their doom. But what happens if disruption hits the digital natives themselves, those creative guys working for startups and things. You know, the cool people? What, if their work gets devalued? Imagine, you need a logo.…
Due to an error in the nameserver configuration I did not receive any email to any of my domains (onlinetrust.de, sebastiansteins.com, seb.st) within the last 2 hours (since 2014-16-09 10:14 CEST). Due to caching, that problem may persist a few hours. Mails should not have been lost (if your mail server is configured correctly), but may reach me with a delay of a few hours! For urgent…
I just found a nice little picture in my old backups. The picture is from December, 2006. Brwosing in old and forgotten backups always come up with those ambitious feelings between “oh, what the hell have I done then?” and “to be honest, I should have won a prize for that one”. If you’re wondering: The fog picture is something in between. I hope to find the hi-res…
Hello, world! This is my ghost blog. That should not mean that I am not going to post but refers to a nodejs based blogging platform: ghost. You may also follow me on Twitter. Since I have been online since the (late) 90s (remember this funny sounds of your modem?), I will try to upload some content to seb.st which I created in the last decades and consider to be still relevant, for example some…
Sebastian A. Steins I am an entrepeneur, consultant and strategist. I have worked as a developer for several companies and asset manager. I hold a degree from the Aachen University of Applied Sciences in Scientific Programming. Startup Events March, 2014: Coach at 3DS May, 2014: Team captain at HackForHealth Fun Facts (in no particular order) I started my first business at the age of 16 I switched…
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During the latest session of HackForHealth I have been team captain of the MINDSET team. Together, we won the challenge with this presentation. MINDSET will be a tool for ADHD treatment for children by leveraging Neuofeedback. The idea is to create a game store for fun games with integrated Neurofeedback sessions. A first prototype could be based on the OpenBCI hardware. Note: This post has been…