Magazine: Summer 2017 | Volume 23, No. 4
The summer issue of XRDS takes a candid look at startups and entrepreneurship. Whether you're just dipping your toe in the waters or you're ready to dive in, we've assembled a selection of articles to explore the unlimited opportunities, the challenges, the heartbreaks, and the joys of tech entrepreneurship. This issue is strategically organized into three parts: an introduction to startups, open entrepreneurship, and personal perspectives. Understanding what it takes to being an entrepreneur is the first step. We've asked entrepreneurs who are at various points along their journey to share how to find collaborators, how to design a business for work-life balance, and how to develop an entrepreneurial mindset. We also explore the landscape from traditional venture capital to
alternative open source approaches for running a tech business. It is our hope that these stories will be the push you need to transform your great idea into something tangible.
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COLUMN: Careers
Flexing DevOps talent in a startup
The perfect place for a budding engineer.
By Federico Fregosi
COLUMN: Advice
How to choose a conference
Bigger is not always better when building an academic reputation.
By Andrew J. Hunsucker
DEPARTMENT: Blogs
Cancer: from biology to computer science
Cancer research has been at the heart of life sciences for the past few decades. Since genetics play an important role in most cancers, computational methods are crucial in understanding the development of the disease.
By Abdelrahman Hosny
Positive computing: a novel research field to promote human well-being
After decades of remarkable leaps and bounds, is technology really helping to increase society's well-being?
By Gustavo Fortes Tondello
SECTION: Features
Forests, trees, and false dichotomies
As the gap between research and productization continues to narrow, traditional labels may no longer apply.
By Stephen Miller
On entrepreneurship
Joi Ito, director of the MIT Media Lab, shares his ideas about entrepreneurship learning, finding the right people, and navigating failure with grace.
By Jie Qi
Running an alt.business: being a good cause and doing good business
Hacker, maker, and engineer Limor "Ladyada" Fried shares her insights on open technologies and business models.
By Limor Fried
Identity: the killer app of crowdfunded open hardware
In the next 20 years, the notion of a secure, verifiable identity will drive the adoption of crowdfunded open hardware.
By Joshua Lifton
Being an open entrepreneur
What does it mean to be an entrepreneur making open source hardware? An open entrepreneur has parallels to being an entrepreneur of any company, but there are also advantages that are often overlooked.
By Alicia Gibb, Nathan Seidle
Building a business based on the life you want to lead
Running a business and living the lifestyle you want can be seen as mutually exclusive. Maintaining the right balance, while meeting the changing goals of both, can be seen as a talent. But shifting focus away from the bottom line can lead to a better outcome, professionally and personally. Two entrepreneurs share their ongoing journey toward mastering this art.
By Chris "Akiba" Wang, Jacinta Plucinski
I, entrepreneur
Five, diverse entrepreneurs from around the world share a common ambition of social good. Here they detail how they entered the world of startups.
By Numair Khan, Alexandru Penu, Thomas Dickerson, Linda Liukas, Cesar Jung-Harada, Sam Bhattacharya
