Lately I’ve been trying to understand strategically the creation of 2 sided networks/marketplaces and turning them into {web} businesses. I’ve come across some interesting articles and thought I’d brain dump them and share them here with other people who are trying to pursue similar end goals. Two sided networks are interesting: They’re characterized by extremely [...]
Dan Hill, noted author of City of Sound wrote about this Breville Toaster and applauded the design of the “a bit more” button. The post was commented on hacker news quite a bit and I’ve thought about its design in general a bit more. Breville Toaster, flickr: Dan Hill Dan says, regarding the “Bit More [...]
Last year, I went to FailCon and StartupSchool (they were situated around the same weekend). I could easily say that I learned way more listening to the cases of failures than the “here’s what worked for me, but probably won’t work again, and most certainly won’t work for you if you do it exactly the [...]
I’m surprised I waited so long to read this book by Randy Komisar, now almost a decade old, titled The Monk and the Riddle: The Education of a Silicon Valley Entrepreneur. The book is a light read, I finished it between two short airplane flights to/fro Philly. Lots of this stuff is intuitive if you [...]
I read this post a few weeks ago by Joel Spolsky about growth and the need for speed (The post is entitled “Does Slow Growth Equal Slow Death?”. I thought to myself for a while and nodded… and all of the examples were spot on: Word vs WordPerfect / Oracle vs Ingres. But there was [...]
Late last week, the University of Michigan had their BOP conference, limited to a core and exclusive group of BOP notables (Patrick Whitney, Dean of the IIT Institute of Design, and BettrAt’s “Thinker-In-Residence,” was in attendance). I had a chance to catch up with a friend tonight I hadn’t talked to in several years and [...]
I enjoy listening to streaming music from Pandora while I’m working. (Special thanks to big Dave for sharing his channel with me so I don’t have to spend time sifting or curating the good stuff) Pandora is an awesome product- it allows for discovery, evolves with me, and is generally a pretty good experience. I’m [...]
