The early bird registration discount for this year’s Business of Software in Boston expires on Friday. If you are planning to go, sign up now to save $400 off the full price. In addition to speakers like Seth Godin, Joel Spolsky, Dharmesh Shah and Eric Sink, there are excellent networking opportunities with the other 300 [...] Continue reading →

Neil has posted a video of Don Norman (most famous for his book The Design of Everyday Things) speaking at the Business of Software conference last year in San Francisco.

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A lovely new company/customer etiquette has emerged, and small startups are especially suited for capitalizing on it (literally). I hope you’re not ignoring it. Continue reading →

I’ve embraced a concept that involves investing in websites like real estate. Not “website flipping” as the press seems to categorize anything to do with buying or selling websites, but taking a long-term approach to finding income-generating web properties and building a portfolio. Think Warren Buffett’s buy-and-hold approach vs. speculation (aka “flipping”). This is different [...] Continue reading →

#31 All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky. Joel Spolsky #32 Five different programmers can solve the same problem five different ways #33 Don’t write 200 lines of code when 10 will do #34 If the “box” is the boundary of constraints and conditions, don’t think outside the box—find the tbox. Andy Hunt, Dave [...]

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I was a judge at last night’s 59 days of code startup competition here in Fresno. Teams had 59 days to create a killer app. One that solves a problem, is marketable, and demos well. Overall it was an impressive showing of local talent. You can view a list of contestants here. The Categories There [...] Continue reading →

If you missed the webinar on Monday, you can listen to it here: http://bit.ly/c7FlM8
A special thanks to Matthew of EditMe for having me on to talk about starting a business.
Cheers!

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