I’m in Montreal for the International Startup Festival. There’s my flight ticket. Serendipitously, I was on the same flight as DMC. We didn’t coordinate this, honest! Something special’s going on. While I was walking down the street, I randomly spotted a huge crowd of girls lined up on the sidewalk. I randomly asked one girl…Continue Reading…
iOS offers a few ways to visually design your User Interface. You can use a xib (sometimes pronounced nib for historical reasons), a Storyboard: … or code. For large multi-person projects, code is the way to go. Here’s why. Your UI, like every other part of your app, will change. You need to be able…Continue Reading…
Not Yet People often say that scalability is something you should ignore until it starts becoming a problem. “You don’t have a scaling problem yet.” …it is best to not worry about it too much until it starts becoming a problem. That’s true, but scaling is still… Not Easy “Admittedly, this is a good problem…Continue Reading…
If you haven’t seen our hit music video yet, it’s at the bottom of this post. Mark, the 500 Startups Marketing Manager, sent us an email instructing us to “make a fun (and funny) video!” On our internal mailing list, we threw around tons of ideas. One that had decent traction was a “Breaking Bad”…Continue Reading…
Continue Reading...Last week I wrote about our reasons for joining 500 Startups.  Today I’d like to write a bit about what happened during our second week: connecting with mentors, learning from alumni, and moving down to the Peninsula. First: our mentor meeting with Marvin Liao on Tuesday. Among other things, Marvin told us to make sure we…Continue Reading…
I’m proud to announce that Greengar has joined 500 Startups! Last week was the kickoff of the 500 Startups accelerator program’s sixth batch, including about 25 startups that are ready to take over the world. Why Accelerate? Those who know me might ask: “Elliot, your startup began years ago, you have over 14 million downloads, and you…Continue Reading…