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Your Startup Need an Intractable Design Problem 28 Jun 2013 | 07:30 am
For the last 4.5 years, I have been tasked with designing and UX testing the entire website for my first startup. From the outside, Skritter is pretty simple, it’s a website that teaches students of C...
Games: The Anti-MVP 6 Jun 2013 | 09:30 pm
“Can you build a prototype in a week?” My cofounders and I were sitting in the Mission on a sunny morning, eating crepes and talking with a survey and testing guru about testing business assumptions f...
Why You Should Bootstrap Your First Startup 24 May 2013 | 07:30 am
A month or two back I read Daniel Tenner’s excellent article entitled “Taking the Leap.” Having run my own modestly successful startup for going on 5 years now, I can say with some authority that he m...
How to Choose A Name For Your Startup 13 Apr 2013 | 10:10 am
Naming a product is tough. It’s thankless, there’s no objective criteria for success, and when you’re first starting out, it can seem unproductive. But none of these are legitimate excuses for not spe...
Quit Your Job Now, Before It’s Too Late 8 Apr 2013 | 02:32 am
Six weeks ago I handed my employer my formal resignation. Two weeks ago I waved goodbye and left the office to begin work on my second startup. At this stage in my life I have no children, no mortgage...
Save Time, Cash, and Carbon with Amazon Prime 15 Feb 2013 | 07:30 am
I have been a heavy user of Amazon prime for more than a year, and it baffles me why anyone shops offline for anything but perishable grocery items. If shopping is something you enjoy as a recreationa...
It’s Sad to See Your Startup Turn into a Business 1 Feb 2013 | 07:30 am
When I founded Skritter in 2008 with Nick and Scott, we called it a startup. We raised three rounds of funding, hired developers to help scale our team, and attended startup summits, venture capital p...
My Radio Interview and an Interesting Link 26 Jan 2013 | 09:00 pm
Back in November I was asked to speak on Pysch Talk radio about the Quantified Self movement and the triangle chapter I founded in particular. I enjoyed it quite a bit, and the recording is now availa...
You Can’t Use Customer Discovery for B2C Products 11 Jan 2013 | 07:30 am
This post is a simple reminder to everyone out there starting a B2C web startup: it’s risky and no framework or theory is going to change that. Steve Blank’s Customer Discovery framework has helped an...
Call Me When 3D Printing Becomes Practical 4 Jan 2013 | 07:30 am
Over the holidays I finally got around to reading Wired’s effusive article about Makerbot and the coming 3D printing revolution. I get it: 3D printing is going to take over the world. It’s going to ev...
