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Wordpress Themes for Launching your Minimum Viable Product
By leveraging the web in creation of rapid prototypes for testing business model assumptions, and using customer feedback to develop them, companies will be able to advance in its’ search for…
Tips for Noogler Engineers (Noogler = New at Google)
I'm surprised by the number of people inside Google who actually read my blog. I once did contemplate writing a "career guide for Googlers",...
Why Does Apple Offer Free Engraving?
This Black Friday, I had the occasion to ponder why it is that Apple offers free engraving on iPods and iPads (hereafter, iP*ds).
Too Young to Know It Can’t be Done
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible – and achieve it, generation after generation. Pearl S. Buck Ask people what makes entrepreneurs successf…
Lessons learned from 13 failed software products
“No physician is really good before he has killed one or two patients.” – Proverb Software entrepreneur culture is full of stories of the products that succeeded. But what about t…
Two Weeks Vacation is only a Recommendation, not a Rule
How much vacation time did you take last year? If you're like most workers in the States, it was probably less than 3 weeks. That's all your...
Out Of Nowhere, The iPad Has A Real Competitor
Oh, it’s not an iPad. Not even close to the smoothness and sleekness of one. However, consider these points: 1) It’s less than half the price of the least-expensive iPad. That’s $…
Why we’re really happy with AppEngine (and not going anywhere else)
There’s been a handful of articles critical of Google’s AppEngine that have bubbled up to the top of Hacker News lately. I’d like to throw our story into the ring as well, but as a story of a happy customer rather than a switcher.
Steve Jobs "never had any designs. He has not designed a single project"
Back when I reviewed Peter Siebel’s fascinating book of programmer interviews, Coders at Work, Erik Anderson suggested in a comment that I might also enjoy its precursor Programmers at Work […
We’re Apple. We don’t wear suits. We don’t even own suits.
Link to: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/07/ff_att_fail/all/1