Ever see those retrospectives where a big company’s logo is changed over a 150 year period? We did all that work in a single week. How’s that for internet-speed?

We know the final doesn’t yet scream “mobile” and we figure in good web start-up fashion we’ll get to thay in good time. But for [...]

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I met today with a small business owner of a successful contractor’s business (type of contractor withheld to protect identity.) She does the admin work and her husband manages the day-day work. Some great learnings:

Small businesses are scrappy survivors

She didn’t wait for the govt to bail her out. She’s frustrated with the bailout of big [...]

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Let us mark today 3/22, 9:30am as the moment the first SMS message was sent from FanMinder…
And let’s not forget we stand on the shoulders of other giants who came before us…
133 years ago, almost  to the day, Thomas Edison uttered:
“Mr. Watson, come here I want to see you” upon inventing the telephone, March 10, [...]

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Here’s a great tale: tiny start-up decides to enter a market dominated by the biggest companies in the world. Existing products from these companies are bloated feature beasts. Tiny company tries to grow, fails, again and again.
Learning what works and doesn’t work, tiny company shifts gears, hits it big, keeps improving, until it’s bought by [...]

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Just found this blog post on the web with some rules to live by for developing an online product. I think it’s as close to a comprehensive list as it comes.
I especially enjoyed #5, 9, and 13. #13 says to make sure your engineers experience first-hand the customer’s experience.

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