April 2010
8 posts
Adding people to a late project makes it later
via dilbert.com It’s true, but many people outside of the technical world don’t know it. It’s so counter-intuitive. Posted via web from And You Wanna Be My Latex Salesman? | Comment »
Mobile Phones Around the World... By the Numbers
via billshrink.com Nice factoids about the mobile phone market. Is it true that UK children receive their first mobile phone at the average age of 8 years old? That probably means there are a lot of mobile phones in kindergartens. Posted via web from And You Wanna Be My Latex Salesman? | Comment »
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Piper Jaffray Agrees with Me
Back when the Apple iPad was first announced, I wrote a blog post about its impact to the Amazon Kindle. One of the things I think Amazon should do was to cut the Kindle’s price in half.
2 months later, Gene Munster from Piper Jaffray came to the same conclusion (okay, tounge-in-cheek. I’m not really an analyst). Says the linked article:
To combat the issue, says Piper Jaffray...
“It’s very dangerous to build on platforms where the platform itself hasn’t...”
– Three Reminders about Platform Businesses (Apple, Twitter, and Facebook) | Charles Hudson’s Weblog
Charles Hudson wrote the above around the time Twitter launched an official Blackberry app and announced acquisition of Atebits, maker of Tweetie (a popular iPhone Twitter client).
Do we still process experience internally or do we...
But then I started wondering. What if this wasn’t just a calculated move to frame what was sure to be a major celebrity news story? Any of your unfamous friends and followees ever share news of a breakup on Twitter or Facebook? Ever read details about personal tragedies shared by people you barely know? Ever first learn of a pregnancy or a divorce by way of status update? For millions of...
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Lessons in Getting Real
Before I talk about the book “Getting Real”, let me give a quick background on how I discovered it and also plug This Week in Startups (TWiSt) podcast. TWiSt is one of my favorite podcasts and it contains a wealth of knowledge about starting your own business. It is hosted by Jason Calacanis who, despite his knack of pissing off people, is always entertaining. To give an idea of how...