https://www.mattangriffel.com/ Co-founder of One Month. Faculty at Columbia Business School. I write about startups, technology, and philosophy.

     



38 Stories by Mattan Griffel

How Will You Make Money?

How will your company make money? You should have an answer to the question “How will your company make money?” early on. You may...
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How to Setup Vagrant for Rails

How to Setup Vagrant for Rails Overview This will take about 20 minutes. Vagrant is a tool to automatically setup a development environment inside...
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Why Codecademy Didn’t Work for Me

As someone who learned how to code pretty recently, I’m frustrated by the way that coding is taught to beginners. I wanted to learn...
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Why Should You Learn How to Code?

This past weekend, while attending a party in Brooklyn, I met a guy who started telling me a story about his startup and then...
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Why Should You Incorporate Your Startup In Delaware?

Startup Series: Why Delaware? Why should you incorporate your startup in Delaware, even if you’ve never been there?* A whole lot of companies in...
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3 Ways to Know If A Developer Is Good

If you don’t necessarily have a technical background and you’re thinking about bringing in a developer, how do you assess them? How do you...
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Why You Should Learn Python As Your Next (or First) Programming Language

We’ve got a major course release coming up! The Python course was so successful that we’ve decided to up our game even more by...
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The Perfect Follow Up To One Month Rails

Why should someone who already took One Month Rails take One Month Ruby? Well, for one, you know very little about Ruby so far....
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What Are Convertible Notes and Why Use Them?

Throughout our previous entries on raising funds as a startup, we’ve been talking about raising money for your company by sharing equity with venture...
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