Author: Dave
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Build a company for less than $15k
Check out this post on Guy Kawasaki’s blog. The founder of Truemors started a relativey successful company with $12,107.09, and he probably could have done it for a lot less. It is amazing these days how much you can do without a lot of money. My first start-up experience involved $8M if initial investment followed…
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Cleaner Desktop
For those of you with Macs, check out Five Steps to a Kinkless Desktop. I don’t know about you, but I’m pretty anal about keeping my desktop clean. Ethan is the author of kGTD, a great set of scripts that allows you to use the GTD system in OmniOutliner. It is so succesful that OmniGroup…
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Minor problem — fixed now!
Don’t know what happened, but yesterday all my internal site links broke. Either my hosting environment or I did something goofy. Anyway, after a few installs and data imports, I think I have everything back now. If anyone was watching, that’s why the feed and/or the site may have acted strange yesterday. Sorry about that.
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Google and Dell Resort to Spyware
Saw this post on Insignificant Thoughts. If it’s true, Google can forget about their “Do no evil” motto. This sure sounds like SpyWare to me. I’m glad I have a Mac…
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Getting up Early
I stubbled on 10 Benefits of Rising Early, and How to Do It, and I have to admit it is good stuff. Until my kids were born, I was never much of an early riser, but since then I find that I can’t sleep late anymore. When I do, I feel like I missed something.…
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Founders at Work
“Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days” by Jessica Livingston of Y Combinator is a great read. The book is a collection of interviews with mostly recent technology startup founders. For a complete list of interviews, click here. Most of the information is not new, but it is great to read it from the…
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Very Cool Offices
Saw this post on Guy Kawasaki’s blog. There are many pictures of the Threadless offices in Chicago. I don’t know how much software or technology they work with, but those have to be some of the coolest offices I’ve ever seem. It’s like working in your college apartment, but with an actual budget for toys.…
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Really Bad Customer Service
Long ago in another life I was a Mac user (at least at home). I also became a loyal Quicken user. This was back in 1991 or 1992. Along the way, I bit the bullet and replaced my home Mac with a PC (grudgingly). Now, I’m back to a Mac at home and loving it.…
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Fear of Failure
I came across and interesting article – Fear and Loathing in Software Development. The author starts with the idea that a good API will be very difficult to change because it becomes entrenched. After that, the author discusses a scenario where he did not have a proper test environment, and a mistake could bring down…
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Recruiting the Top 1 Percent
Joel Spolsky recently wrote a guest editorial on Inc.om. It was a good read, and I happen to agree with him on most points. One of the main points is a top developer is often 10 times more valuable than an average developer. Given me a small team of stars any day! Sometimes, even one…