April 2011
19 posts
“The early days of any company – successful or not – are complex, messy, often...”
– Melodramatic Bullshit (via pegobry)
What I've Learned about Software Engineering
I am going to have to agree fully.
alexpopescu:
Ted Nyman:
What I’ve learned about software engineering:
Listen to smart people
Prefer simple to clever
Have no ego
Shut the fuck up
onstartups →
Perhaps I have been living under a rock, but i just discovered this.
“How many location-based companies can you have? When you’re 24, restaurants and...”
– Mark Suster (via soupsoup)
attention - the new currency online
When I ran my previous video company, this was my motto.
Many would ask why paying for video service is so important when they could use youtube for free. Well if you are delivering a message, paying (either time, money, or both) to get in front of someone - you better be sure as hell that you are the only one talking to that user when they get there. Youtube is not conducive to that. Click...
business plan tools?
so a web 2.0 business plan search has yielded some fairly humorous results, but no real tools. In a post earlier this afternoon, I asked if anyone had run across a helper to generate one. two schools of thought arose: the first was that a business plan was laughable, the second was more of a stringent stare like ‘if you don’t know how, then move on’. I still think that plans are...
is there a simple business plan builder app...
looking around, all I see is subscriptions and downloadables.
is there a site with an interactive builder?
paywall?
when did a ‘subscription’ become a ‘paywall’? ya know - back in my day kids, we had to pay for good information. but you only want what’s free. and now you have gawker. you get what you pay for, and changing the name dosen’t make the people on the other side any different. Journalism costs money. caugh it up or make decisions on poor reporting and speculation.
Disruption Roulette
Damnit - where do I find a phone book these days?!
entrepreneuradvocate:
A fun little game for entrepreneurs.
You will need the following:
1 White board
1 Computer with Internet connection
1 Yellow Pages
Simply take the phone book and throw it up in the air. Whatever section it lands on, create a disruptive business model and build a minimum viable product.
Any industry that still fills...
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