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

Storytelling For Startups

In light of our recent Storytelling for Business course announcement, this Founder Friday, I wanted to talk about storytelling for startups and how you...
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Maintaining Healthy Relationships While Working at a Startup

The thing about putting your all into your startup is that, technically, then you don’t have anything left for the other important facets of...
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Why I Do Startups (Plus Startups vs. MBAs)

Why do I do Startups? When you’re running a startup you certainly don’t do it for the money. Paper valuations, even those worth millions,...
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Admitting When Things Aren’t Perfect

No you’re not perfect but you’re not your mistakes. — Kayne West We tend to have a hard time admitting when things aren’t going great. When...
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Ruby Tutorial: Map vs. Each

What’s the difference between map and each? Let’s start with the concept of iteration: Iteration is the process of doing something over and over....
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How to Develop A Daily Writing Habit

One of my health habits is a daily writing habit. Last year, one of my goals for 2014 was to write daily. I’m happy...
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Coding Challenge: 3 Ways to Make Sure You Finish Every Course You Start

Listen, I’ll be the first to admit I can be incredibly lazy. If you give me five minutes to finish a project, I’ll do...
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10 Reasons Beginners Should Learn Ruby on Rails

If you’re new to programming, what language should you learn first? I often get asked the question: “What programming language should I learn?” If you’re...
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The Case for Online Education

I have a prediction: Not only will online education eventually be as good as offline education, it will be better. The honeymoon is over. People...
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