This is your brain. This is your brain on stories (if you saw the US anti-drug ads of the 80?s, you know where I?m coming from). Turns out stories may be also be mind-altering ? in a good way.

Ultra-hot payments startup Stripe has brought on $70 million in new funding that will double its valuation less than a year after its last raise. The round, which was first reported by the Financial Times, brings the total amount Stripe has raised to more than $200 million.
With the new financin…

Did you know that eons of human evolution has hard-wired our brains to have gut reactions in 3 seconds or less? Combine that with the age of over-stuffed mailboxes and increasing mobile usage, and you have a recipe for getting lost in marketing oblivion. But don’t fear. That doesn’t have to be your …

Entrepreneurs tend to talk about the glory moments. You know? about raising millions of dollars from investors or selling their companies.
Sadly, there isn?t much you can learn from those glory stories, which is why I rarely discuss them. Instead, I focus on sharing my mistakes because if you can av…

Last week, TechCrunch broke the news that Whitney Wolfe and a group of other former Tinder employees are launching a new Tinder competitor called Bumble. This week, the app went live in the App Store, giving us our first real look at how the product works.
Spoiler Alert: It?s almost identical to…