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Three Product Design Mistakes You Can Easily Avoid

Posted by on Apr 3, 2012 in Blog, startups | 1 comment

Sometimes you win because the competition goes out of their way to lose. Usually this is the case when one company nails it, and everyone else strikes out.

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Survey – Job Boards

Posted by on Mar 27, 2012 in Biz | 0 comments

What job boards have you used before? Monster CareerBuilder LinkedIn .Jobs Niche Boards like Dice.com, theLadders How do you t

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Stop Making People Lie

Posted by on Mar 4, 2012 in Biz, Blog, marketing | 0 comments

Seth Godin is on to something with his latest post, “Why Lie?”  Seth’s spends a lot of time dealing with what happens...

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Congress Wants to Unplug the Internet with SOPA and PIPA

Posted by on Jan 12, 2012 in Biz, Blog, internet, open source, politics, tech | 0 comments

Next week, congress will vote on SOPA (House version) and PIPA (Senate version).  Both SOPA and PIPA will break both the Internet and your...

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How to Predict the Future

Posted by on Sep 15, 2011 in Blog, startups | 0 comments

Trying to accurately predict the future is hard to do. Most who try their crystal ball do so get it so totally wrong that it's embarrassing. Some people perpetually get it right, like Steve Jobs. What's the difference? The people who are wrong are on the outside looking in. The people who get it right are cheating. Don't believe me? Here's what Alan Kay (one of the people who your grandkids will learn about in American History and tell you about) has to say:

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Why the B2B Sales Model is Broken

Posted by on Sep 13, 2011 in Blog, marketing | 0 comments

I spent the last week in Portland at Djangocon, which is a conference for people who are making really cool web apps with a toolkit called Django. I haven't been surrounded by as many really, really smart people since Nuclear Power School in the US Navy. One of the presenters, Brad Fitzpatrick, casually mentioned his disdain for dealing with

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