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David Feinleib at Mohr Davidow Ventures pens a piece called, “Why Startups Fail.” Here are his four reasons with my thoughts below. 1. Spending too much on sales & marketing before they’re ready This is exactly why we encourage new companies to stay as far away from venture funding as they can. VC’s encourage you to spend! And since software is virtually free, and hardware is dirt cheap these days
Ryan talks design on the Rails Podcast
I enjoyed Ryan’s talk a ton. David’s also. I personally wasn’t sure that half the audience really got it (for either), as there were some disparaging comments I overheard after each. However, I thought the talk on Designers and Programmers was very interesting. There were a number of ideas I hadn’t really thought of, such as how version control can be useful to designers, and it was somewhat comfo
Why we skip Photoshop
When designing a UI we usually go right from a quick paper sketch to HTML/CSS. We skip the static Photoshop mockup. Here are a few reasons why we skip photoshop: You can’t click a Photoshop mockup. This is probably the number one reason we skip static mockups. They aren’t real. Paper isn’t real either, but paper doesn’t have that expectation. A Photoshop mockup is on your screen. If it’s on your s
The infographic that saved a million lives?
“No graphic in human history has saved so many lives in Africa and Asia,” says NY Times columnist Nicholas Kristof about an infographic in a ‘97 Times article that spurred Bill and Melinda Gates to take action on public health. in september i traveled with bill gates to africa to look at his work fighting aids there. while setting the trip up, it emerged that his initial interest in giving pots of
Start a business, not a startup
Startups can bring new ideas to market. They can give people a chance to change the world on their own terms. They can create something where nothing existed before. There is no doubt that they are exciting things to be a part of. But, as much as the tech world tries to treat them as special, we don’t believe startups are special. They aren’t born out of big bang moments where the laws that govern
Are you sure you want to be in San Francisco?
Techies, VCs, and the press are always swooning over the glory of the Bay area. This is where all the excitement, the money, and the people are, they say. And that’s true to the extent that your great big idea fits the current cultural mold of that environment. If you’re looking to build the next web 2.0 social media eyeball-collecting application, don’t want to worry about boring details like rev
Newseum: Today's Front Pages
The Newseum displays over 600 daily newspaper front pages from around the world in their original, unedited form (they also have a map version). Pretty cool. Dave Bednarski, a Signal vs. Noise reader, sent over a really cool Mac OS X Automator script (download the script) to pull the front pages from the papers you like and combine them into a single PDF. It’s a great way to build your own front-p
Lessons to learn from a do-it-yourself curry house
A while back, David posted about what Gordon Ramsay can teach software developers. Since then, I’ve been soaking in the BBC America version of Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares and loving it. Even if there is some reality TV BS going on, the program does a great job of showing the power of determination, attitude, and attention to detail when it comes to running a small business. If you’re looking for a
iPhone SDK, Apple's Touch Platform, and The Next Two Decades
What we saw today was the spark. The explosion will continue for twenty years. We will all feel the warmth. What we saw today was the beginning of two-decades of mobile domination by Apple. What Microsoft and Windows was to the desktop, Apple and Touch will be to mobile. And while mobile platforms have been around for a while, they never really gained passionate traction. Palm sorta had it for a w
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