May 26, 2010 0
A quiet week, I was on vacation. :)
Apr 28, 2010 0
A recap on any interesting links I posted or retweeted this week
Apr 14, 2010 0
Some interesting links this week. Slightly less original articles from me this week, real life intrudes. Testing out Twitter’s new Anywhere API on these link, I think it looks real purty – Let me know what you think.
Apr 13, 2010 2
Some interesting updates from my Posterous stream. This week Apple released a restrictive terms and conditions for the App store to prevent developers using third party tools to convert apps written in other languages into Objective C. One opinion is that this is a larger play to kill off Adobe flash, but a larger consensus is that this is to try to lock developers into Apple’s platform – If you’re writing Objective C it’s probably a lot of trouble to develop for other platforms. David Heinemeier Hansson has a good analysis.
Dave McClure makes a great case in Business Week for why Design and Marketing are more important to new startups than raw Engineering talent.
Dr Mark Goulston on investing in startup founders. Someone who wants to run a business like the King is only going to satisfy their own ego, not make the investors rich.
Stu Wall on why the skills learned in an MBA course may be ideal for big companies, but might not work so well for an entrepreneurial venture.
Rajesh Setty on why some exceptional people do relatively little with their lives. I recommend subscribing to his blog, very interesting stuff.
Finally, one of the funniest things I’ve seen in a long time. This is the satire level of fake Steve Jobs applied to Jason Fried. Hillarious.
Apr 1, 2010 0
No April fools here today!
Mar 26, 2010 0
Interesting links from the week of March 26th. This week, Sean Ellis gave a talk on “The Keys to Explosive Startup Growth” for the Lean Startup Circle which was very well received.
Mar 17, 2010 0
A recap on some interesting links I’ve seen this week:
Mar 12, 2010 0
I’ve resurrected some of the code that does this weekly retweet nonsense, it seems that some recent wordpress update strips any HTML characters when you post via XML-rpc and to disable it involves messing with the duct-tape and blutack internals of wordpress. I have better things to do.
Mar 8, 2010 0
I’ve been posting excerpts from any interesting links I’ve come across up at my posterous blog for the last month or so. This is mainly due to the fact that the previous system I was using has decided to no longer work after a wordpress upgrade (Wordpress strips all markup characters) and I’m too busy at the moment to dig through the unholy mess that is wordpress to fix it.
Posterous is a pretty nice system for quickly putting together a simple blog. You can create a post by sending an email, and if you link to a flickr page It’ll automatically pull out the image. Likewise with youtube videos and a dozen other services.
Here’s a rundown of some of the more interesting links from the last month:
A self-help checklist. If you’re making any of these excuses, then you’re at risk of being left behind. Don’t be left making buggy whips when your competitors are out making cars!
This is an interesting perspective. While in college I would have had nothing but contempt for PR and Marketing, which I thought of as just adding noise to a perfect process. Somehow, I reasoned, if the product was good enough people would just start flocking to it. Not so unfortunately. This is a great guide to what value PR and marketing provide to a product.
A great article from Carsonified about using a cleverly designed “Thank you” process to add a more human touch to your business that makes them want to engage more. Carsonified have a very polished design process which stands out as original and eye-catching yet very human.
A few years old, but definitely worth another watch if you’ve already seen it. Andreessen is busy changing the world with his VC fund at the moment, but as one of the few people to have created not one, but two billion-dollar companies from scratch he’s someone who you want to listen to.
Fantastic article by Paul Buchheit on product focus. The message is simple – Pick two or three key things that will create a competitive advantage and do them really really well. Trying to implement every idea under the sun leads to mediocrity initially, and failure in the long run.
Sep 23, 2009 0
A recap on any interesting links I posted or retweeted this week
