Ok, Path just put Facebook and a lot of other mobile products to shame with their new application. They’ve got a killer design, a number of relatively innovative interface elements, and the app works aside from the occasional crash and some buggy loading issues. However I haven’t been able to get over one element of [...]
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“He who fails to plan, plans to fail” – Proverb I have gone throughout much of my life not planning anything. In fact I’m so bad at planning that I figured there had to be an easier way and we came up with Holler. When we started Holler we had three things: a vision, an [...]
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When speaking on a panel at the recent DC Week event, I made a statement that resonated with some people in the audience: design is no longer an option. If you think back to the 90s, web design was essentially a foreign concept. Developers who could piece together some janky table-layout html were the ones [...]
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I spent the weekend reading over all the conversations on Hacker News (effectively summarized in this post) about how MongoDB had failed this one company, and all the follow-on conversation about why or why not to use Mongo as a database solution. Fortunately there are often some very rational people in the comments on Hacker [...]
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I’ve been asked by a number of people about naming startups since launching Holler.com, a name which to say the least, did not come cheaply. People have asked me everything from how to name a startup, to how much you should spend, to how important the name is. Ultimately, we each have our own theories [...]
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If you’re one of the millions of consumers of mobile applications, there’s a good chance you’ve downloaded an app recently that has you log in with Facebook or Twitter. While not all of these products are “social” by nature, most that require users to log in are focused on social networking of some sort. Within [...]
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In today’s world where there are data points that you can use to argue just about anything, how does one truly measure their success? Part of the answer comes in a post from MG Siegler, who wrote today about winning at tech blogging. As someone who wrote all day about technology for a few years, [...]
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Today I witnessed what is probably the world’s worst press release. It was a horrible move by, Cloudant, a company which provides some form of cloud-based analytics services, and more importantly, YCombinator, an investor in the company. How To Make Yourself Hated I don’t fully understand the business of Cloudant to be honest, but what [...]
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A complete guide on how to get your macbook configured for php development.
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Yesterday evening I got into a conversation with two friends about the growing number of incubators that are following in Y-Combinator’s shadow. Are they beneficial to the entrepreneurial ecosystem? Can the startup ecosystem really benefit from all of these companies that can be written off as features? Aside from the poor economics behind startups, and [...]
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