Twitter and third-party Twitter developers
From cdixon.org I can’t remember the last time the tech world was so interesting. First, innovation is at an all time high. Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter and even Microsoft (in the non-monopoly...
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From A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks This is a guest post by Jarie Bolander, author of Frustration Free Technical Management and a moderator at Answers OnStartups. It’d be wonderful if...
View ArticleMinimum Desirable Product and Lean Startups (slides included!)
From Futuristic Play by @Andrew_Chen Minimum Desirable Product (if you don’t see the slides, go here to Slideshare) Recent slides for a talk in Steve Blank / Eric Ries’s class on High-Tech...
View ArticleAccounting for Startups: Cash-basis or Accrual-basis?
From A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks You didn’t start a business so that you could learn accounting, but learn you must! Here’s a little help. QuickBooks lets you switch between two...
View Article5 Ways to Avoid Going on Tilt in Startups
From Inspired Startup In poker and in business, it’s much easier than you think to go on tilt. The most dangerous thing about being on tilt is when you don’t realize you are on tilt. For those of you...
View ArticleGluecon 2011 – Day One
If you’ve never been to an Eric Norlin created conference, do yourself a favor and go. I’ve been fortunate enough to attend several Defrag conferences and decided to check out his Glue conference this...
View ArticleGluecon 2011 – Day Two
Day two of Gluecon felt more oriented to the developers attending. They were a happy lot. It’s been a long time since I’ve written code, so I spent more time talking with the demo companies than...
View ArticleLet’s Defrag
Layin’ it down for the 5th year now, Defrag 2011 starts off in Monsters of Rock style. Eric Norlin’s opening remarks are kick started by pumpin’ Ratt, Motely Crue, and other rockers. Less than 30...
View ArticleDefrag is Different
I was sitting next to a first time Defrag attendee for most of yesterday. About midway through I asked him how he was liking the conference. He works with a Fortune 100 company and admitted that he...
View ArticleReflections on Defrag 2011
Defrag 2011 wrapped on Thursday. As in other years, I was happy to be engaged by interesting thinkers, both on stage and in the audience. Interesting conversations are easily found at Defrag....
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