February 2010
10 posts
Boston Marathon, Barefoot - Donate for Prizes &...
I’ve teamed up with my friends at RunKeeper to run the Boston Marathon, wearing my Vibrams. This is my first marathon ever, and RunKeeper’s planning to boil this event into something really big!
Now is the time for charitable folks to help me kick off my fund raising… and potentially win some cool prizes.
For every $10 donated to Jason Jacobs (RunKeeper CEO, this will be his...
robgo.org: What Lean Startups are NOT →
The Lean Startup movement isn’t terribly new, but the level of hype is reaching pretty significant levels. The contrarian in me is always a little wary when anything gets overly hyped. To be clear, I really really like the concepts of the lean startup and customer development. I’d recommend any…
My response to Rob’s thoughtful post:
Agreed on the lack of magic formula, and...
Startups Have Too Many Engineers →
jjacobs22:
I enjoyed this post by Tom Loverro, nice contrast to the ‘no place for an MBA in a startup’ rhetoric that I’ve heard so much about. No doubt engineers are the critical lifeblood of an early stage company, but as a non-technical founder (w/ an MBA), I like to think that our roles are important too.
I agree that non-technical founders are important, which is to say: all founders, no...
What makes Apple's App Store tick?
The App Store removes a ton of muck. Most importantly (from this survey at least), dealing with credit cards and payments is one of the biggest pains for developers, and the App Store completely shields developers from it.
The iPhone platform succeeds because the App Store “removes the muck.”
iseffcom (via caterpillarcowboy)
Handling payments is one of the gnarlier pieces website...
“Why does Buzz even exist? Is it because Google wants to make my life better in...”
– - Daniel Lyons from Newsweek
http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/techtonicshifts/archive/2010/02/10/google-buzz-more-like-buzz-kill.aspx
(via dpstyles) (via tedr)
Lean Startups Panel - 2/24 @ MIT
February 24th (exactly two weeks from today) I’ll be part of a Lean Startups panel discussion at MIT. You can find the information here.
I’ll be joining Boston’s David Cancel & Palle Pederson to talk about the ‘new theory’ of startups, and to share success (& horror) stories from my experiences in the trenches with DoInk.com.
Hope to see you there!
WatchTil Death Do Us Part ?!?!? by suh_blim_uh_nal, made at DoInk.com
Valentine’s day is right around the corner. Let your loved ones know exactly how deranged you are for them!
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