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Design’s Place in a Startup
By: Tony Wright on: Jan 29,2008 In: Design, RescueTime, Software Dev, Startups, YCombinatorA 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 […]
Startups: Launch Early, but Launch Small?
By: Tony Wright on: Jan 25,2008 In: RescueTime, SEO, Software Dev, Startups, YCombinatorOne of the recent YCombinator dinners that we attended featured Joe Kraus (who founded Excite and then later JotSpot, which sold to Google).
Like all YC guests, Joe had piles of startup wisdom… One of the things that stuck out to me (which I’d never heard much) was when he said, “when we launched JotSpot […]
Evaluating New Product Ideas (focus on Tractability)
By: Tony Wright on: Dec 18,2007 In: Marketing, RescueTime, Software Dev, Startups, YCombinatorEvan Williams (founder of Twitter, fellow corn-fed midwesterner-turned-dotcommer, and someone I get to meet via YCombinator!) has a fabulous post on how to evaluate new product ideas. To sum up his excellent post, here is the matrix he came up with:
Tractability
Question: How difficult will it be to launch a worthwhile version 1.0?
Obviousness
Question: Is […]
Bootstrap Design for Geek-Powered Startups
By: Tony Wright on: Dec 15,2007 In: Design, RescueTime, Startups, YCombinatorOne of my brethren at YCombinator sent out a request to the 2008 Winter Founders list a request for information about design services for his startup. He and his co-founder, like many YC founders, are hackers.
In my career I’ve been a web designer (although I’m only moderately good at it), I’ve hired web designers […]
- Currently co-founder of RescueTime
- Built and sold a web startup in 2006 in the recruiting space.
- Built and sold a 15ish-person web development consultancy
Other Tony Trivia
- Does not smoke a pipe.
- Currently bouncing around between Silicon Valley and Seattle, WA.
- Lived in Alaska for 8 years.
- Can fly a plane.
- Grew up racing sailboats.
- Played pen and paper RPGs, but won't admit it in public.
- Has killed and eaten a moose.
- Has never voted for anyone named Bush.
- Loves to cook and has made his own sausage
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