Category: Business
ABCs Of Design
From Frog Design’s column at Gizmodo: A. Hire a competent designer at the C-Level in your company, and trust her/him to help integrate design into your infrastructure. Apple follows this model, as Jobs serves as the CDO (Chief Design Officer). He has a great aesthetic and works closely with his design team to build superior…
From the Garage: Lessons Learned Birthing and Building Web Start-Ups
Mark Fletcher, founder of both Bloglines (just acquired by Ask Jeeves) and ONElist (now Yahoo Groups), presented a fascinating talk on what it takes to launch a startup in the online services market – notably how to design and build systems for reliability and scale and on budget. Fletcher’s talk was actually a useful compliment…
VC Funding for Geeks; or, How to Get Your Technology to Emerge the VC Way
Marc Hedlund is O’Reilly’s Entrepreneur-in-residence – his session on VC funding used software development, coding and hacking analogies to illustrate the intricacies of securing venture funding for a startup business. Hedlund is a veteran of three startups and around a hundred VC pitches, so he speaks with some authority on the process. Though the idea…
Lessons Learned While Building Basecamp
37 Signals promotes itself as an elite team of expert web design and usability specialists, dedicated to simple, clear and usable customer-focused design. Their Basecamp and Ta-da List take simple social software applications such as wikis and blogs, adapting them for enterprise users – applying the simplicity and intuitive nature of those applications to otherwise…