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Christian Anderson (a former colleague at Jobster) had an interesting (and well-researched) post on his blog called “How to Pitch Robert Scoble — HINT: No Direct Tweets“… , which led to a discussion on FriendFeed (with Robert himself weighing in) that was pretty interesting.
I had a contribution bouncing around in my head but held off […]

A lot of people are damn religious about bootrapping businesses. Especially nowadays when it’s so easy to start a software business– you just need a few hackers, Ruby on Rails, a cheap virtual server and you’re ready to roll, right?
Sure.
But just because it’s cheaper to start a software company, doesn’t mean that it’s that […]

Just a short note to let folks know that I’ve switched my commenting system over to Disqus.
Disqus is a hosted commenting system (free) that offers a few clear benefits:

2 way communication with people who comment. This is the one I care about. Very often, someone leaves an interesting comment on my blog that […]

I wrote a little guest post over at FoundRead (part of the GigaOm network). Give it a read!
http://foundread.com/2008/04/02/ycombinator/

There’s quite a flap over Paul Graham’s recent essay.
The attacking author quotes a comment on Reddit (always a good sign) as a good summary of the essay of why we should all be terribly offended.

“I work with young startup founders in their twenties. They’re geniuses, and play by their own rules. Oh… you haven’t founded […]

Well, not all of it. That title was blatant click-bait. You’re here and I’ve won. Nyah!
I’ve long been passionate about reading and digesting every tidbit of information about what it takes to build a successful startup. I’m an avid reader of people like Seth Godin, Paul Graham, Guy Kawasaki, the […]

Someone posted an interesting “Ask YC”, asking:
“How to start becoming an entrepreneur while still being an employee?”
Having done this twice (started a company that eventually turned into a full-time startup), I settled in to reply. Before long, it was clear that my response was long enough to justify a blog post.
I’ve done two part-time-to-full-time […]

There has been a lot of chatter lately about alternatives to Silicon Valley. There is no denying that Silicon Valley produces more startup success than any other town. But is it cause or effect? Does SV add some secret sauce to the startup recipe or is it simply a place where a […]

This Tuesday, I’m going to get a chance to meet Kevin Hale, who is the designer behind Wufoo and proprietor of ParticleTree. Kevin wrote a blog post last month that I think is one of the better summations of what it means to be a web designer. While I don’t want to dwell […]

A reader took the time to shoot me an email with a few questions about design and startups… His questions were interesting enough that I thought they might be worth blogging about. So here goes:
Question #1 - What is the priority balance between programming and design/UI?
In my opinion, it totally depends on your […]