Here are excerpts from this article that discusses two types of technical debt
“The first kind of technical debt is the kind that is incurred unintentionally. For example, a design approach just turns out to be error-prone or a junior programmer just writes bad code. This technical debt is the non-strategic result of doing a poor [...]
Inc Magazine has an article on ‘Lean Product Development’, an emerging business philosophy that has recently gained a lot of momentum. Applying lean concepts to product management is the latest in the application of lean manufacturing to software development over the last few years.
While a Lean Product Development, evangelized by Eric Ries and Steve Blank, [...]
Great quote from Steve Blank “Startups were not just smaller versions of a large company, they were about invention, innovation and iteration – of business model, product, customers and on and on. Startups were doing discovery of the problem and solution in real-time.”
Make it the present tense and that’s what we do daily.
Interesting starter article “15 Roles Every Startup Needs” makes you take inventory on what ya got and what you need
Collection of screen shots of major os interface design between 1981-2009 (via @andrew_chen)
How White Am I,
“How to build companies that matter” @ericries on O’Reilly Radar
Quote: “The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look [...]
“People have a strong tendency to attribute the behavior of others to dispositional rather than situational factors, that is, tribute the behavior of others to character and especially character flaws rather than the system in which these people are acting.”
Great post: When Talking About Business Models, Remember That Profits Equal Revenues Minus Costs
From Implementing Lean Software Development, “Development is the process of transforming ideas into products. There are two schools of thought about how to go about this transformation. We might call one the deterministic school of thought and the second the empirical school of thought. The deterministic school starts by creating a complete product definition, [...]
Check out the latest issue of Giving City Magazine. It is a great example of a talented start-up team making the most of the PDF as a magazine format. Two very talented people Monica Maldonado Williams and Torquil Dewar have put together a great magazine around philanthropy and community participation. Check it out here.
Thanks to High Scalability for publicizing a very cool paper on Spamalytics.
The paper Spamalytics: An Empirical Analysis of Spam Marketing Conversion is a fascinating (academic) read about spam conversion. I’ve always assumed that spamming must be profitable at least for the anti-spam industry. This paper not only outlines the underlying economics but the Storm Netbot [...]
