Boxed Ice, creators of Server Density, wrote up a nicely detailed post on how to run a successful beta program for a web application. Knowing when to release a product is difficult. The maxim “release early, release often” certainly applies but that has to be balanced against making sure you have a minimum viable product […]
How Social Media Really Works
Great thoughts on building your products from A Whole Lotta Nothing: So maybe instead of getting your company on twitter, paying marketers to mention you are on twitter, and paying people to blog about your company, forget all that and just make awesome stuff that gets people excited about your products, hire people that represent […]
Startup Revival Plans to Archive Failed Companies
Startup Revival is a recently launched site that is attempting to catalogue failed startup companies so all entrepreneurs can learn from their mistakes. I love the concept and they recently added my story of EvolvePoint’s failure. Do you have a company with a great foundation, but it just didn’t work? Or do you have an […]
How to Resolve a MobileMe Sync Issue
I’ve had my iPhone for about 5 months now, but only recently I decided to subscribe to MobileMe and try over the air syncing of my contacts and calendar data. Unfortunately, after following Apple’s instructions, I could not get it to work. My Mac would sync with MobileMe and vice versa, but MobileMe would not […]
Beer and Investing
I normally don’t post jokes, but my sister sent me this and I thought it was quite appropriate for the times. If you had purchased $1,000 of AIG stock one year ago…you would have $42 left. Lehman Bros… $6.60 left… Fannie or Freddie… You would have less then $5 left. BUT, If you had purchased […]
Twitter Tools Digest Problem
I’d like to apologize this morning for about ten errant posts that were made to my blog. This mainly affected those subscribed to the feed and I was able to quickly remove the posts, but I’d like to briefly explain what happened. I’ve been using the Twitter Tools plugin for quite a while to post […]
iPhone Impressions After Three Months
I’ve now had my iPhone for about three months and have been extremely satisfied with the purchase. Over the years I’ve owned many major brands of smartphones including the BlackBerry, T-Mobile Dash (Windows Mobile OS), and the SideKick. The iPhone handily exceeds any device I’ve ever owned and its all because of the applications and […]
Bad Email Marketing from Priceline
This is one of the worst marketing emails I’ve seen in a while: Priceline.com wants me to fill out a survey for a recent car rental I made through their site. Simple and innocent enough at first glance. What really bothers me with this email is their reason why I should fill out the survey. […]
More ways to kill your business
I’ve been trying to write about the lessons learned from the failure of my last company (albeit quite slowly) and I read a post this morning from Mike McDerment of FreshBooks that covers some similar topics. His post is titled 7 ways I’ve almost killed FreshBooks and I can second every single point he makes. Luckily for […]
Welcome to Boulder
The other evening I went bouldering on Flagstaff Mountain above Boulder. The after work climbing scene was quite crowded as I expected, but on the way home I witnesses the strangest thing. I was actually being tailgated by a cyclist riding down the road. Mind you, I was still driving at or slightly above the posted speed […]