Archive for the ‘Startups’ Category
Thursday, March 6th, 2008
Some of the most commonly used terms are often the most misunderstood and least agreed upon. One example of this is the difference between a startup and a business. Now I'm no expert (having run neither of them), but I do read a lot and I pay $8 ...
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
Normally, when I read something on the Internet, I have one of three reactions:
"This guy is so wrong he's not worth acknowledging."
"This guy is stating the obvious so he's not worth acknowledging."
"This guy is so right there's nothing to add."
Sometimes, very rarely, there's a fourth reaction: "This guy has ...
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Thursday, February 7th, 2008
Part of the joys of staying up all night is that I don't have to fight with my wife over what movies to watch. My latest guilty pleasure was the bodybuilding documentary Pumping Iron, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Lou Ferrigno and others leading up to the Mr Olympia 1975 contest. ...
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
You are where you live. That's the message that Prizm, a market research tool from the company Claritas says. In the United States, groups of similar people tend to live near each other, and the size of these groups roughly corresponds to ZIP code boundaries. Claritas has identified 66 lifestyle ...
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
I've expressed my admiration for Paul Graham a number of times already in this young blog. He's a successful entrepreneur, investor, innovator, writer, philosopher, language designer, and hacker. Most people would be happy to be as good at one thing as he is at any of those things. ...
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
Once you've read a little of Seth Godin, you feel like anything new he writes is something you could have written. There are just two problems:
You didn't write it
You're not Seth Godin
Here's my latest "I'm not Seth Godin so all I can do is comment" thought on his recent ...
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Monday, January 7th, 2008
One of my problems with blogging (and honestly, just about everything I do) is that I have a big, grandiose vision of what I want as an end result. Then, when I start to work on it, I directly extrapolate the time my first few steps take over the ...
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Wednesday, December 19th, 2007
As I've mentioned in a couple of my posts, I'm working on a startup. This wasn't technically true until this week. Before, I had an idea for something to do but I hadn't even done anything resembling working on it. Now, I've at least done something resembling ...
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Friday, December 7th, 2007
As a sort of reference to me/resource to others, I started a page on this site to chronicle the research and recommendations I find while working on my own startup. Hopefully anyone that finds this can work faster by taking advantage of the research and work I've done. Having said ...
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Friday, November 9th, 2007
Since I'm beginning to work on my own startup, I figure part of the job is to throw my voice into the conversation going on around startups. Since I'm not very far along (basically, I have an idea, a preliminary design, no name, a little research, no code, and no ...
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