July 2009
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Steve Job's Next Quote: "We don't write code, it...
When I first saw Steve Job’s quote, then Josh Porter’s (Bokardo) re-quote in www.bokardo.com and then Bijan Sabet’s repost, I nearly choked on my Wheaties and thought, damn, another sound bite that everyone’s going to analyze and memorialize. The next sound bite that passes over Steve Jobs lips might as well be “We don’t write code. It is divined by a higher being.”
My thoughts:...
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Build Guild Celebrates 1 Year Anniversary
Created by two Salem web geeks, Marc Amos and Angelo Simeoni, the Build Guild is a monthly event where folks in the web industry (designers, coders, project managers, hobbyists, etc.) can get together to talk web, debate industry topics, share ideas, make professional connections, land gigs, and discuss the real reasons why mustaches need to make a comeback.
I’ve followed these folks at a...
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Startups: Have you considered selling Private...
Let’s imagine for a moment that you’re underway with your startup and you’ve started talking to your lawyer about your company’s legal formulation. He should be recommending that you create a C-corporation since VCs and other investors won’t talk to you otherwise. He also should be giving you guidance on issuing stock and the different types of stock classes that you issue to your shareholders. ...
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Startups: VCs Can Benefit From Your Business Plan
Part of this is response to Don Dodge’s opinion on the Microsoft BizSpark site that VCs don’t look at or need business plans.
I agree that, from a VC’s perspective, business plans are a waist of time; however, the process and building of a plan arms the entrepreneur with a disciplined view of their intended or current business, their projected revenues and expenditures, as well as their feature...
What’s in a VC Investment: Verdant Fields
I needed to laugh a bit today after reading more of the seemingly endless VC debate about what is Free (Freemium, Not Free, Partially Free, Free with benefits) when we have so much of it around us. Of course, when something bothers me, I try to joke about it.
Thank goodness, almost every day a friend in Facebook posts a Word of the Day and I try to post a humorous usage of the word. Here was...
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Is Your Platform For Base Jumpers or Passengers?
Nabeel Hyatt’s article “Building Platform Companies” got me thinking a bit. In general, platforms allow other developers and companies to embrace and extend its value propositions. Having one and its related ecosystem and buzz is a frequent goal of expansive-thinking CEOs and CTOs. (Mr. Hyatt’s article related to Dash Navigation’s purchase by RIM, also a platform.)
Mr. Hyatt implied that many...