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I recently read Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days by Jessica Livingston. Jessica interviewed a whole bunch of really interesting people (Steve Wozniak, Ray Ozzie, Mitch Kapor and 29 other entrepreneurs) and has written up the interviews in this collection. It
I love it when software just works. When you use it and it does exactly what it should do. When it’s obvious. I love it even more when software redefines obvious. Before you use the software, you have one idea of what obvious is. Once you’ve used it, your mental model has changed, forever. Your [...]
My toaster caught fire a few weeks ago. I’ve been thinking about getting a new one. I’ve read the Which? consumer reports, and know that the cheaper ones are actually better than the more expensive ones. That was reinforced by one of Seth Godin’s recent blog posts, where he describes the world’s worst toaster in [...]
A few days ago I mentioned that Seth Godin’s is one of the few RSS feeds I subscribe to. That begs the question: what are the others? Here is my list: Seth Godin (http://feeds.feedburner.com/typepad/sethsmainblog)Simple-Talk (http://www.simple-talk.com/feed/)Bruce Schneier (http://www.schneier.com/blog/index.xml)Larry O
Andrew Clarke has got a great post about setting up on your own, over at Simple-Talk. Here’s an excerpt: I knew from experience that this was something that any good programmer had to get out of his system. There is a deep-set fallacy that if software is well-written, and full of features, then it will [...]
Geeks – the good ones, anyway – get passionate about the smallest things. Should braces sit on a line by themselves, or be next to the if clause? Is dynamic SQL better than stored procedures? XSLT – good or evil? I’m often reminded of this Emo Philips sketch: I was walking across a bridge and [...]
When Simon and I first set up Red Gate eight and half years ago, neither of us had a clue about marketing. We had to learn fast. One of the first books I read about marketing was Seth Godin’s Permission Marketing. Here’s how Seth explains introduces it in his blog: Permission marketing is the privilege [...]
I’ve had quite a few people e-mail me to ask if they can speak at Business of Software 2008. Unfortunately, most of the main speaking slots are either full or I’ve got somebody in mind for them. However, it would be cool to give other people the chance to speak too. Last year, we had [...]
The date and venue for Business of Software 2008 have been finalised. It’s going to be held in the Seaport hotel, on the Boston waterfront. This is a fantastic, independent hotel in a magnificent location. We’ve negotiated a special rate of $239 / night for the conference. You can find out more about the hotel [...]
Today’s guest post is by Heather Johnson. Heather is a freelance business, finance and economics writer, as well as a regular contributor at Business Credit Cards, a site for business credit cards and best business credit card offers. Heather welcomes comments and freelancing job inquiries at her email address heatherjohnson2323@gmail.com If you are planning on [...]