Archive for 'Startup'

Product Development., hobby vs. professional (and inventors)

Product Development., hobby vs. professional (and inventors)

Wednesday I received this email from my friend Pamela Slim over at www.escapefromcubiclenation.com (she’s awesome,, visit her site often, also her coaching prices are great and she really helps (and yes, I pay full price for her amazing help)). Here’s what she sent me: “I would like to share this (took off the name to [...]

Dave Seah, brilliant, and vastly more organized than you

Dave Seah in San Jose

Ok, so Dave is probably going to hurt me for using the picture at the bottom of this article, but he’s got funny ones of me too, while we sat Sunday at Coffee Society in San Jose (he was in town from the East Coast on a project, and chatted about our respective plights. David [...]

Organizing your feeds, a.k.a. Brad Feld knows his stuff.

I’ve been reading Brad Feld’s stuff for quite some time (he’s a V.C. in colorado who runs really far, and does cool stuff all the time). He’s got a great piece related to an article by Josh Kopelman about “Feed Frenzy” and what to do about all our feeds. Brad accurately distills the info Josh [...]

Barriers to entry, startup costs, how the web eliminates startup costs

24hours of lemons

Cleverness, and free web tools are what reduces barriers to entry (startup costs). The analog in real life however is totally different. A great example of a real life barrier to entry being lowered and turning out to be game changing is happening to some friends of mine. They wanted to drive race cars. Race [...]