February 2012
7 posts
The Age of AngelList →
The Hacker Way →
Subedit →
The one idea I added to PleaseBuildThis that I wish existed almost every day.
January 2012
31 posts
Scaling Github →
Breakdowns in communication →
The Uphill Battle Of Social Event Sharing: A... →
I love startup post-mortems - there’s so much to learn from them.
“There will come a day when the tablet market is larger than the PC market.”
– Tim Cook
Coding for success →
Idea: an exchange for trading eBooks →
“It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
A Word to the Resourceful →
TheOatmeal.com blacked out in protest of SOPA →
“Every hour of the day that I could contact a customer was selling time, and when...”
– Mark Cuban
Paint a room white, give stickers to kids →
Building products from improvised user behaviors →
Why You Should Share Ideas
Do you want feedback from investors on your startup ideas?
I recently shared an idea on PleaseBuildThis.com for “a Chrome extension that lets you fix spelling/grammar mistakes on any website.”
Check out what happened when I tweeted the idea:
“Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise
(That last infirmity of noble...”
– Lycidas by Milton
Timing is everything →
The first piece from The Kernel’s entrepreneurship columnist Andy Scott.
“It’s what comes next that is so much more interesting - the point between taking...”
– Andy Weissman
Between Thought and Expression Lies A Lifetime
Wanderers in the fog →
A beautifully written essay about entrepreneurship.
“The only thing any entrepreneur, salesperson or anyone in any position can...”
– Mark Cuban
Scrollorama
There’s a nifty new trick appearing on various good-looking websites. The first example of it that I saw was Ben the Bodyguard (scroll down the page to see it). Now there’s an open source library to help you create these effects with jQuery. It’s called Scrollorama and if you’re into web design you should check it out.
“I can see it’s an absolute curse having the internet as you’re...”
– My grandmother
Stopping by woods on a snowy evening
Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near Between the woods and frozen lake The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake To ask if there is some mistake. The only other sound’s the sweep Of easy...
Knowledge is the new start-up capital →
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New project: PleaseBuildThis.com
A few factors convened recently to bring my latest project to life:
I realised that I have more ideas than I could ever build myself
Richard Price - who shares many ideas with his Facebook friends - helped me realise that the advantages of sharing ideas (discussion, criticism, someone else building it) could outweigh the disadvantages (someone else building it)
Guy has been sitting on an...
I have a couple of suggestions for your New Years resolutions.
If you can’t code then check out CodeYear.com and sign up to receive an interactive coding lesson by email each week. It will change your life.
If you can code then check out the article I posted yesterday and think about how to ‘level up’. You could resolve to send your first pull request on Github, speak at a...
The golden age of the developer →
My inaugural piece for The Kernel written the week we launched and read by more than 20,000 people.
December 2011
4 posts
New Years Resolutions
I recently found my New Years resolutions for 2011 on my phone and was delighted to realise that I have achieved seven out of eight of them.
The trick is to make them specific and achievable.
Inspired by Bryce and Fred, one of my resolutions for 2012 is to post something here every day. I’ll be posting ideas, projects, links, articles from The Kernel and anything else that catches my eye....
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The Kernel →
The Kernel - a new online publication about technology and the impact it has on our lives - launched today. It is the brainchild of my old friend Milo and I’ve been helping out on the tech side. I’ll also be contributing some articles in due course.
Yesterday I ran the Las Vegas Marathon →
November 2011
15 posts
Can Venture Capital Save The World? →
10 Things Entrepreneurs Don’t Learn in College →
The Social Graph is Neither →