December 2011
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joel.is: 10 lessons from my startup journey so far →
joelgascoigne:
It’s almost exactly a year since I started documenting my startup lessons learned through this blog, and since my first post last November, I’ve blogged 26 times. I’ve been lucky enough to have fantastic comments on many of my posts, and this has always extended my learning even further by…
September 2011
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ItsJaredC: The wrong question: "I want to learn to... →
itsjaredc:
If you want to learn to code and build stuff and you’re starting by asking someone else what you should do, you’re already thinking about it the wrong way. Immediately, right now, with no preparation, in the blink of an eye, you can take a huge step toward your goal by realizing that you don’t…
August 2011
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June 2011
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May 2011
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I have no idea what I'm doing →
pieratt:
I am the CEO of Svpply, Inc., a social shopping S-Corp operating out of New York City. My company has been the recipient of over half-a-million in investor dollars, for the stated purpose of building an unknown, 3,000-member web service into a cultural phenomenon, and I truly have very little…
Born like an artist, Bloom like an artist
April 2011
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Mobile patterns - reusable designs for apps
As a software developer, I use “design patterns” without even thinking about them. Design patterns are general reusable solutions to commonly occurring problems in software design.
As I evolved into a mobile developer, I began to recognize that there are similar patterns of occurring “problems” or “interactions” in mobile app design. Stuff like how to show an activity feed, or a sign up...
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The meaning of photos in today's world
Is a photo worth a thousand words? Can a photo still change the world, etch its meaning in our minds forever? As part of SnapCast’s idea validation research, we interviewed 20 photo sharers, surveyed over 50 people and did passive “ethnographic” observation on photo sharing behavior on Instagram, Flickr and Facebook over a period of 4 weeks. Here are some of our findings and...
March 2011
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What Rebecca Black’s Friday can teach us about...
Unless you’ve been living under a cave for the last week, you would’ve seen some form of Rebecca Black’s music video, Friday. The video has garnered over 45 million views and has been a top trending topic on Twitter for the last 2 weeks.
Like all well adjusted internet users, I usually read comments when I am moved by a video, especially one with over 90% of dislikes. A lot of...
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Finding people to validate our awesome ideas (or...
What’s the difference between and an “ideas” person and an entrepreneur? In the eyes of the lean startup movement, the “ideas” person is a dreamer with lots of unvalidated assumptions of how customers will use and buy their product. An entrepreneur knows that the initial idea is based on one a many hypotheses and that this idea is only the start of a journey of discovery. She must then test and...
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Lean Startup - Qualitative research for dummies
One of the most important principles of the lean startup methodology is to validate your assumptions during the problem/solution stage. This is where you have an idea and you need to figure out if someone will actually use/buy it. As part of our new project - SnapCast, we conducted over half a dozen interviews. What do I do with them now? I needed some framework to figure out all this raw data. So...
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February 2011
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