Technology, Design and Startups

Getting started with a Career in Design

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tips and suggestions for Getting started with a Career in Design

• Podcast Productize Your Service, Streamline Your Process - Brett Williams DesignJoy - Indie Hackers
• Article A Comprehensive Guide To Web Design – Smashing Magazine
• Article The fast-track psychology career that no one told you about || UX Collective
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Should I become an Entrepreneur?

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good and bad reasons to start a company. Not everyone should startup!

• Article Good and Bad Reasons to Become an Entrepreneur
• Article Three Paths in the Tech Industry: Founder, Executive, or Employee
• Article You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss - Paul Graham essay
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Global Startup Hubs and Innovation Clusters

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A collection of resources about global startup hubs and innovation clusters, exploring their role in fostering entrepreneurship, collabor...

• Article The U.S. Drops Out of the Top 10 in Innovation Ranking - Bloomberg
• Article Europe’s startup ecosystems hold ground, competition intensifies
• Article Global Unicorn Hotspots in 2025
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Data Science: Careers

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Introduction to careers in Data Science

• Article The Kinds of Data Scientist - Harvard Business Review
• Article Job Comparison - Data Scientist vs Data Engineer vs Statistician
• Article 'Data Science' - This Is America’s Hottest Job - Bloomberg
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Workers rights in the gig economy

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Should companies like Uber and Airbnb classify their workers as employees (or self employed contractors)?

• Article Uber loses appeal against drivers' rights
• Article Why Ageism Never Gets Old
• Article GrubHub Drivers Ruled Contractors in Gig-Economy Milestone - Bloomberg
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Ethics and design: The Psychology of Building Addictive Products

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A look at ethical and moral issues related to addictive design A collection of resources about Ethics and Design: The Psychology of Bu...

• Podcast YouTube and the End of Friction | Exponent
• Article ‘Never get high on your own supply’ – why social media bosses don’t use social media | The Guardian
• Article How a handful of tech companies control billions of minds every day | Tristan Harris - TED
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Career in Venture Capital

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How to Build a Career in Vc

• Article Where did venture capitalists go to college? | TechCrunch

Diversity and tech industry culture

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Articles and videos looking at team building, diversity and tech industry culture

• Article Woke at Work: Why tech firms are trying to run away from politics—and failing | The Economist
• Article How Slack Got Ahead in Diversity
• Book Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design by Kat Holmes, director of UX Design at Google
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Alternatives to Silicon Valley - Startup Hubs and Innovation Clusters - USA

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Alternatives to Silicon Valley - Startup Hubs and Innovation Clusters in the USA. A collection of resources about startup hubs and innov...

• Article Midwestern states want to become “hard-tech” hubs | The Economist
• Article What’s Up with Austin? - David Perell
• Article Innovation Hubs - Past, Present & Future — Investor Amnesia
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Books about Design

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a collection of great books about design

• Book Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability by Steve Krug
• Book The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman
• Book The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward R. Tufte
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Data Science Courses and MOOCs

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a collection of articles about Data Science Courses and MOOCs

• Website Dataquest
• Video Stanford's FREE data science book and course are the best yet
• Video NumPy Crash Course - Complete Tutorial 1 hour
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Career in Tech - Product Manager

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A collection of articles and videos with tips to Build a Career in Tech - Product Manager

• Article A Product Manager’s Job
• Article The highest paid workers in Silicon Valley are not software engineers — Quartz
• Article What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager
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Career in Tech - Junior Developers and Coding Bootcamp Grads

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A collection of articles and videos about How to Build a Career in Tech - for junior Developers and Bootcamp Grads

• Article 7 absolute truths I unlearned as junior developer
• Article Why America’s Economy Needs More Apprenticeships - Ryan Craig
• Article Career Karma Raised a $40 Million Series B To Expand Into Higher Education and the Enterprise
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Career in Tech - interviews

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A collection of articles and videos about interviewing for jobs in tech

• Video Bill Gates best job interview answers - State of Inspiration w/ Stephen Curry
• Article How to use AI for your next job interview, with Claude skills
• Video How to introduce yourself—and get hired | Rebecca Okamoto | TEDxNorthwesternU
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Invision App - Design

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a collection of articles about Invision, an app for designers

• Article InVision, valued at $1.9 billion, picks up $115 million Series F – 2018 - TechCrunch
• Article InVision takes on Adobe with the introduction of Studio – TechCrunch
• Article InVision: All 700 employees at this startup work remotely
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Aha! - Product Management - software, tools

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A collection of articles and videos about Aha! - Product Management - software, tools

• Website Aha! | The world's #1 product roadmap software
• Article Aha! - Crunchbase
• Article Agile Sprint Planning for Product Management | Aha!
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Product Management - software, tools

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Product Management - software, tools. A collection of resources about product management, covering essential software, tools, and method...

• Video Linear: Claude Code is 1000x better when you use this tool
• Video How this PM uses Claude + ChatGPT as his second brain
• Website Hotjar: Website Heatmaps & Behavior Analytics Tools
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Design apps and platforms - companies, fundraising, competition

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Sketch, InVision and Design apps - fundraising, platforms and competition

• Article Abstract, a versioning platform that helps designers work like developers, raises $30M – TechCrunch
• Website Freepik | All-in-one AI creative studio
• Article InVision, valued at $1.9 billion, picks up $115 million Series F – 2018 - TechCrunch
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Culture and Team Building (for startups) - tips, suggestions

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How to build an amazing team? On a limited budget (or after you get funded), team building will remain one of a startup founder's most p...

• Article 14 Steps To Creating A Magnetic Company Culture - Eden
• Video How Airbnb’s CEO uses an Unconventional Management Approach to Drive the $85 Billion Brand
• Book Radical Candor, by Kim Scott
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Data Science: Careers - steps, getting started

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Introduction to careers in Data Science

• Website Dataquest
• Video How I Would Learn Data Science (If I Had to Start Over)
• Article GitHub - The Data Engineering Cookbook
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How cities use economic development incentives to attract startups

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How cities use economic development incentives to attract startups and entrepreneurs

• Podcast How subsidies helped Montreal become "the Hollywood of video games" : Planet Money : NPR
• Article It is make or break for Intel’s giant bet on Germany
• Article Amazon isn’t the only tech company getting tax breaks – TechCrunch
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Design process for remote teams - team building and management

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Design process for remote teams - How to run a more effective Meeting (for team building and management)

• Article IDEO's 6 Step Human-Centered Design Process: How to Make Things People Want
• Article The modern web design process
• Article Inside Figma: the product design team’s process

DataCamp - Data Science Courses and MOOCs

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DataCamp - Data Science Courses and MOOCs

• Podcast Podcast 29: Growing an Online Training Business – With the Co-Founder of DataCamp - Talented Learning
• Website DataCamp

Dataquest - Data Science Courses and MOOCs

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Dataquest - Data Science Courses and MOOCs

• Website Dataquest

Culture and Team Building - examples from companies (Hubspot, Netflix, Amazon, more)

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Culture and Team Building - examples from companies (Hubspot, Netflix, Amazon, more)

• Article Changes at Basecamp
• Article Don’t Fuck Up the Culture
• Article The Woman Who Created Netflix’s Enviable Company Culture | Fast Company
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Figma - Graphic Design systems

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Figma - Graphic Design systems, tools, shortcuts

• Video Figma's $20B, 10 Year Overnight Success -Garry Tan
• Article Adobe snaps up Figma for $20B, taking out one of its biggest rivals in digital design • TechCrunch
• Article Figma - A New Collaboration with Adobe
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Politics, Culture and Team Building at Work

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Politics, Culture and Team Building at Work

• Article Silicon Valley’s ‘Mission Protocol’ Revolution Is Beginning to Attain Critical Mass – Quillette
• Article Woke at Work: Why tech firms are trying to run away from politics—and failing | The Economist
• Article Changes at Basecamp

Figma - resources, tools, shortcuts

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Graphic Design systems, tools, shortcuts

• Article Figma to HTML website Webflow plugin | Webflow
• Website Create a website from a Figma design for free
• Video Figma UI Design Tutorial: Get Started in Just 24 Minutes! (2021)
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Career in Tech

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How to Build a Career in Tech

• Article How to Build a Career in Tech
• Article Three Paths in the Tech Industry: Founder, Executive, or Employee
• Article We Don’t Need More Designers Who Can Code
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Career Karma - Jobs in Tech, Coding

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Career Karma - Jobs in Tech, Coding

• Article Career Karma Raised $10 Million Series A To Help Workers Acquire In-Demand Trades
• Article State of the Bootcamp Market Report 2020
• Article Career Karma Raised a $40 Million Series B To Expand Into Higher Education and the Enterprise
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Criticism of tech industry culture

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Articles and videos looking at “what’s wrong” with the culture of Silicon Valley and the technology industry

• Article Book: Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley - Feld Thoughts
• Video "Brotopia" author on Silicon Valley sexism
• Article Silicon Valley Techies Still Think They're the Good Guys. They're Not. | WIRED
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Culture and Team Building (for startups)

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How to build an amazing team? On a limited budget (or after you get funded), team building will remain one of a startup founder's most p...

• Podcast Companies & Culture: What You Do Is Who You Are - a16z Podcast
• Video Diversity + Inclusion at Early Stage Startups - CS183F
• Article When we only hire the best means we only hire the trendiest
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Unions and Workers rights in the gig economy

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Unions and Workers rights in the gig economy

• Article University of Chicago Graduate Students Vote to Unionize
• Article Kickstarter’s staff is unionizing
• Article CWA launches campaign to unionize video game and tech workers
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