July 2012
11 posts
“The minimum viable product is that version of a new product which allows a team...”
– Eric Ries (via a-pr)
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The startup curve
collaborativefund:
From initiation, to the trough of sorrow, to the promised land — Paul Graham’s view of the startup process, from a Y Combinator meeting in 2008.
image by A VC, via swissmiss
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“If we have data, let’s look at data. If all we have are opinions, let’s go with...”
– From “Yahoo Is No Longer Dead To Me” by Fred Wilson. I’m a big fan of Marissa Mayer ever since we crossed paths at TechCrunch Disrupt and Garage Geeks (read more here). I hope she can nail it, and by it I mean making Yahoo! cool and successful. There’s a place for Yahoo! in...
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“The trick is to not think about composing the question first. […] Instead,...”
– A great post by Cindy Alvarez of Yammer about interviewing customers. I often find that questions aimed at improving customer insight are actually engineered in a self-destructive way. In many cases such questions are based on internal company lingo no customer can deeply understand, or includes...
“It is now usually cheaper to just try something than to sit around and try to...”
– http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/06/science/joichi-ito-innovating-by-the-seat-of-our-pants.html
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The Importance of Right-Left-Up-Down Standards in...
Yesterday I created a meeting on my Android smartphone (Galaxy Nexus running ICS), filled in all the details, invited a couple of people, and then accidentally cancelled it. I had one of those “WTF just happend??” moments.
So I came back to the screen, and I noticed that the “Done” button was on the right and the “Cancel” button was on the left. I scratched my...
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Meeting Eric Schmidt, Insights about Scaling a...
One of the great things about Soluto is that we’re backed by an excellent team of investors, ranging from big-name VCs to private current and former senior executives in various companies. One of our investors is Eric Schmidt, Google’s chairman, through his personal fund (called Innovation Endeavors) that he founded with Dror Berman.
Eric recently came to visit Israel, and between meeting our...
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“Devs Love Bacon: Everything you need to know about Machine Learning in 30...”
– Great title, great delivery. Learn.
Devs Love Bacon: Everything you need to know about Machine Learning in 30 minutes or less
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“First, Asus has done a lot of work to make the machine look and work just like...”
– As a long time PC guy who’s been comparing PCs and Macs lately, I absolutely agree with this analysis.
http://pandodaily.com/2012/06/24/why-does-every-pc-notebooks-trackpad-suck-or-why-microsoft-is-building-its-own-hardware/
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“Of course there are many differences between startup fundraising and Nigerian...”
– A brilliant article about lessons to be learned from Nigerian email scammers:
Essentially, scammers face an optimization problem. Touching a huge number of potential victims is easy. The real cost is the time spent converting a prospective victim into an actual victim. The scammer has to spend... 