December 2009
71 posts
“Entrepreneurs are willing to take the risk and are generally tenacious enough to...”
– Founders Make the Best Startup Marketing Leaders (via hiten)
“I think we ought to read only books that bite and sting us. If the book we are...”
– Franz Kafka
(via bmdesign) (via abeshafi)
Funny, this is EXACTLY how I felt about the book I started reading last night. Can’t get it out of my mind. (via hiten)
“To design is always to redesign”
– Bruno Latour, in a keynote lecture given at History of Design Society, September 2008 A Cautious Prometheus? A Few Steps Toward a Philosophy of Design. (via designtumblelog) (via hiten)
“Well, any seasoned designer will tell you that working in Photoshop is akin to...”
– 24 ways: Make Your Mockup in Markup
“The romantic image of an über-programmer is someone who fires up Emacs, types...”
– Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their productivity — The Endeavour
“only crazy, ignorant, passionate people would still be reading this, thinking...”
– Dave McClure - Master of 500 Hats: Great Entrepreneurs are PASSIONATE about Customers & Products, NOT about being Great Entrepreneurs. (via hiten)
» The danger of feature-driven design |... →
dfdeshom:
Features can have a negative value to consumers because they make the products more difficult to understand and use. We are finding that people like products that just work. It turns out that designs that just work are much harder to produce than designs that assemble long lists of features.
Features have a specification cost, a design cost, and a development cost. There is a testing...
“It’s clear that traffic and dollars are moving away from legacy media - so the...”
– Business Insider: 2010: 5 Media Predictions You Can Bank On (via mikehudack)
“I’ve learned that you can do some powerful things if you get a bunch of smart...”
– Tito Jankowski, founder of the San Francisco DIYbio group (via jayparkinsonmd) (via mikehudack)
Twitter Will End The Year Profitable →
soupsoup:
rickwebb:
Oh man. So many blog posts will now need a new angle on Twitter.
“In the past, if I had a complaint about one company, it would be more difficult...”
– Smart Customer Service Lessons: Responding Faster To Complaints About Your Competitors | Techdirt (via hiten)
Last Shot - Me Want Cookie (Cupcakes)! →
“Bloggers now say they ‘curate,’ like other peoples’ images & art. Because...”
– @stevehuff (via soupsoup)
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Tenacity Versus Failing Early (and Often)
mikehudack:
continuations:
Fred wrote about tenacity this morning prompted by a post from Mark Suster about tenacity being a key trait for an entrepreneur. As per usual there is a long comment thread on Fred’s post and also quite a few comments on Mark’s.
There is, however, only a limited discussion of the potential conflict between tenacity and the ability to “fail early and often” (before...
“Generally, users are afraid of doing something wrong that will damage them. They...”
– What do babies and high-tech gadgets have in common? | The Experience is the Product | Better product management and products (via hiten)
“One must have… the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via somethingchanged) (via suckafuck) (via mikehudack)
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“What we’ve learned at thredUP is that everybody contributes in a different...”
– Want to know if a founding team can make it? Observe them at 5PM on a Friday talking about a major new feature. - Hanging by a thred
“So if you are doing your own new innovative start up, make sure you keep the...”
– Twitter used to be a crappy idea – 3 lesson learned. - Henrik Werdelin
“Force anyone who is in customer contact to take the role of the Product Owner...”
– Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers (via hiten)
“Frankly, there’s no such thing as multi-tasking. What’s really happening is a...”
– Staying Continuously Connected and Sane At The Same Time « First Today, Then Tomorrow (via superamit)
My prediction for 2010:
hiten:
caterpillarcowboy:
Social media content becomes a form of advertising. See: sponsored posts by VentureHacks and Twitter Feeds on Huffington Post.
“first-time entrepreneurs are just as friggin’ dangerous as drunk teenagers...”
– Dave McClure - Master of 500 Hats: Great Entrepreneurs are PASSIONATE about Customers & Products, NOT about being Great Entrepreneurs. (via hiten)
How to measure product/market fit →
hiten:
Part I of an interview I did with Nivi from VentureHacks
“Take as much risk as you can as early as you can. Put yourselves in positions...”
– My advice to young entrepreneurs | JonBischke.com
“We value something more when we can create a sense of ownership around that...”
– How To Sell a Dog (and Anything Else) (via hiten)
How a great entrepreneur deals with complexity -... →
What VC's Really Want to Know
femmebot:
robgo:
VC’s often ask entrepreneurs of early stage companies questions that they can’t realistically answer. For example:
1. What’s the cost of customer acquisition? (most entrepreneurs have no clue. Plus, even with early data, this answer can change radically with scale)
2. What will the product look like in 5 years? (Who knows? Product evolution is rarely linear. You may be...
“If you think of your software as your co-worker — someone you work with who...”
– Sending an IM via Gtalk in Clojure - pl patterns (via dfdeshom)
“Rather than try to reach every conceivable person who fits a particular...”
– Seven Predictions for 2010 from eMarketer’s CEO - eMarketer (via everythingismedia)
“Would you do it all again? I don’t mean doing everything the same way you did...”
– SAMBA Blog: Would You Do It All Again? (via hiten)
“My advice for someone out of college who wants to start a business. Should you...”
– Intrapreneur or Entrepreneur? « Sam Aparicio (via dfdeshom)
