Turning Flappy Bird Into a Kickstarter to Help Teach Engineering

A Kickstarter project aims to make engineering as addictive as Flappy Bird.  By Fawn Qiu (Product Development, Sesame Street) If you’re a fan of mobile phone games, you might have heard of Flappy Bird, the immensely popular app that was pulled from the app...

How I Got a Job at Kickstarter (in 6 Months and Many Steps)

Looking for a new gig in tech? Ellen Chisa has been there… and reports back.  By Ellen Chisa (Product Manager, Kickstarter) Once upon a time, I decided I wanted to work at Kickstarter. That became a reality after six months and a lot of not so easy steps. I find...

Benefits of a Female Audience and How to Market to Them

One founder discusses the adjustments his startup made after learning that the audience for his product was mostly women.  By Phil Weiner (Co-Founder, Earth Starter) I founded Earth Starter with the idea that I could get professionals, like myself, interested in the...