Archive for the ‘Startups’ Category
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Programming language snobs are penny pinchers. That's a tough sentence to write for some that just finished holding a workshop to help people learn Lisp of all languages. Why would I make such a bold, inflammatory statement? (No, not to troll. Most of the criticisms in ...
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
I had great fun writing my last article "What Kind of Software Would People Actually Pay For?" because it helped me flesh out a lot of the ideas that had been swimming around in my head recently (actually for the last few years). And it actually made my Masters ...
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
[UPDATE: See two update posts: "The Value in in the Experience" and "Music Operates Directly on Your Abstract Syntax Tree"]
The "Free" Firestorm
Hank Williams, my recent blogging buddy, lit the internet on fire recently with a series of posts where he accuses venture capitalists of collapsing the market for software entrepreneurship ...
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Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
I'm a cheap guy who doesn't like to spend money on software. I'm not totally against it, but I have awesomer stuff to spend my money on like diapers, mortgage payments, and $4 gas. I enjoy using free tools or trials offered by the software entrepreneurs I know, ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
The first big project by the Chicago Lisp User Group is a half-day workshop to introduce Lisp and its goodness to other programmers. The primary audience is the Chicago Linux User Group but it open to everyone. This is the initial announcement and tentative schedule. The most ...
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
I've been beta testing a new project management software tool called StreamFocus, and unlike most other betas that are either nice or just plain lame and it's easy to dismiss them. Also, the other products are consumer apps and therefore a) simple and b) extremely streamlined for easy, intuitive ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
A while ago I announced that I was starting my own internet startup. Since then, I've gotten nothing done. Well, not nothing, but nothing that resembles a startup. I did register a domain, setup WordPress, and write a few blog posts, but that was it. And ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Fred Wilson at Union Square Ventures just wrote a post called "Can The Y Combinator Idea Turn Into A Movement?" that set of an interesting discussion at Hacker News. He says that because you can start a company for a small amount of money, investors should back many companies ...
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
[This is another post where I was writing a book-length comment somewhere and thought I'd just publish it in case anyone else cared. I should keep stats on things like this].
About a month ago, a new startup called Coordinatr announced their launch on Hacker News. I didn't try ...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
It's impossible to read about blogging without hearing talk about "monetization" - making money off the attention your blog gets. This isn't a problem for most writers, since nobody reads their blog. I'm no blog celebrity, but at this point, I've had 4 or 5 articles that were ...
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