November 2009
The Archives
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11.20.095 Unconventional business books for the holidaysThe holidays are coming up, which means many of us will be spending a lot of time on airplanes and other places where we might have some free time. So I thought it might be helpful to post suggestions for some good books to read while you are getting where you are going, or maybe when you get there. Below are 5 books I recommend that deal with business or product, often in unconventional ways: How Successful People Win--Using Bunkhouse Logic To Get What You Want Out Of Life, by Ben Stein. This is a great book giving insight into how successful ...
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11.13.09You and your researchIn an interview with Joe Armstrong in "Coders At Work," the excellent book I described in a recent post, the author Peter Seibel refers to a famous talk by Richard Hamming entitled "You and Your Research" in which Hamming advises young scientists on how to do great work, make significant contributions to their fields, and achieve career success. Hamming addresses numerous issues that are relevant for anyone who wants to make their mark and achieve success, certainly including entrepreneurs. I will go into only one of these points in detail here, although I would advise anyone and everyone to take a ...
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11.12.09Connecting the SoCal Tech dotsToday I wanted to give a shout-out to Dr. Tony Karrer, creator of the Southern California Tech Central (SCTC) web site, which aggregates blogs from various folks working in technology throughout SoCal. As of this week, Tony started including this blog on the site, as you can see from the new banner on the right side of the page. I am excited and flattered to be included among such well-known and respected bloggers, so Tony thank you very much and I look forward to working together. A bit of background on SCTC. Tony founded the site about 6 months ago as a community ...
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11.09.09Read this book: Coders At WorkRecently I began reading "Coders At Work, Reflections on the craft of programming," by Peter Seibel. The format of the book is based on the earlier work by Jessica Livingston, "Founders at Work," in which Ms. Livingston interviewed founders from a dozen or so successful startups on the details of their approach to starting companies. In Coders, Peter Seibel interviews 15 of the most well-known and respected coders from various disciplines, ranging from relatively younger coders leading the development of scalable web technologies such as Brad Fitzpatrick and Jamie Zawinski to the gods of the craft including Donald Knuth and Peter ...
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11.06.09When anti-stealth is goodThere seems to have been an increase recently in the discussion among entrepreneurs and others related to startups of whether and to what extent a startup should remain in "stealth" mode. For those who not familiar with the term, stealth mode refers to a startup explicitly not discussing in public its products or strategies. The degree to which a company can cloak its intentions can range from simply not publicly demonstrating its product on one hand to using a false company name during development on the other, only to reveal the true name just before launching. A notable example of the ...
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11.03.09What goes in v1.0?The good news: team KlickFu is close to working through all the major technology issues needed to deliver a fairly solid version of our initial product. Now comes the next challenge, especially for the product manager (i.e., me)--deciding which features are must-haves for version 1. Part of the challenge is deciding what exactly V1.0 is and what is it going to be used for. In the past, this was pretty clear, especially for a desktop software application. V1.0 was the first version of your software, the one that had to make a big splash with the media, users, potentially software resellers and distributors, ...
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