Launch early, learn from the market, and be willing to throw work out and pivot — the plan matters less than the act of shipping and adapting.
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Frederik Andersen of Goodmorning Technology in Denmark gave a great talk last night at Innovation Center Denmark in Palo Alto on the speed of innovation. His design firm is working on all kinds of interesting projects using a method which I found very reminiscent to what we do as agile web application developers. …
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At the last Copenhagen.rb meetup in November we discussed how to get Rails in to our enterprise customers. I am thinking more and more that lets use it with the one or two visionary enterprise customers that exist. But let’s not kill ourselves trying to get it in to the enterprise. Subversive uses are great, but we …
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Seth has a fantastic article about Understanding Local Max that should probably be read by all small entrepreneurs. I is about how you put effort into something and you reach a point where the effort pays off, but eventually starts decreasing. His point is that when you reach what he calls the local max, which is that …
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Excellent advise today from David Cowan: ” The Best Startup Advice I Have”:http://whohastimeforthis.blogspot.com/2005/09/best-startup-advice-i-have.html which is about the Sales Learning Curve as defined by Mark Leslie the founder of Veritas. In a nutshell as far as I understand it you need to expect a certain learning …
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Interesting inteview at Adaptive Path with Flickr’s Eric Costello about how Flickr ended up going down the photo sharing path and away from their original idea for an online game. The first early version was really a chat site… It wasn’t a photo sharing site, so much as it was a place where you could go to chat and …
