If You Build It, They Won’t Come.
Jul 27
You’ve probably heard the cliched phrase “If you build it, they will come.” More importantly, I would like to counter that with an even more important cliched phrase “If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” In the web and entrepreneurship community there’s this misconception that “launching” a product...
They Will Steal Your Idea. They Cannot Steal What Really Matters.
Jul 20
“If you were the inventors of facebook, you would have invented Facebook”- Mark “Jesse Eisenberg” Zuckerberg If you’re in the tech scene you have most likely seen the theatrical trailer for The Social Network, a movie with a semi-sensational edge on the founding of Facebook. The quote above really stuck out at me, and made me realize stealing an “idea”...
How To Succeed Like Apple
Jul 13/* First off, this is not a fanboy piece. Apple’s successes do not depend on others having to fail. The other companies mentioned below such as Microsoft, DELL, and Google are doing pretty well. I have no intentions of starting a flamewar or Android/PC/Google/etc. debate. */ Everyone seems to think Apple is superhuman with a magical business crystal ball. When they launch a new product...
Email Newsletters Are Still A Serious Business
Jul 01In late 2009, I wrote an article about the fascinating and very lucrative business behind email newsletters. In the world of Twitter, Foursquare, and Tumblr, it’s not the sexiest of businesses. In the past 9 months, a ton has happened in the space. New entrants have emerged and past entrants are doing even better. Let’s take a look: Help A Reporter Out (HARO)- A few weeks...
How To Become a Millionaire In Three Years
Jun 21/* This was originally a comment made in response to a hacker news thread titled: Ask HN: How to become a millionaire in 3 years? . The comment has over 200 upvotes, which means people found it useful. I decided to add more thoughts, refine existing ones, and put it in a permanent place. This is just my own humble advice and I hope it’s useful for entrepreneurs. */ I move forward the...
Quora is already “Google Useful”
Jun 16If you haven’t heard of Quora, you should certainly try to get an invite and check it out (I’ll give one away in the comments). It’s a social Q&A site from a bunch of early Facebook employees. Crunchbase has a better explanation here, but the best way to experience Quora is to use the product itself. In my mind, Quora has already crossed the threshold of being what I...
Excel Is The World’s Most Used “Database”
Jun 14First off, the title is meant to get a point across. The statement of Microsoft Excel being the world’s most used database may or may not be true, but it would be a fair statement to claim that “An alarmingly large number of individuals use Microsoft Excel to store non-numeric arrays of information that should probably be stored in a database / be created by a simple web...
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