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As a SaaS solopreneur and bootstrapper, my hardest challenge is to find the low hanging fruit. Ideas to increase growth are endless and they all sound great. Which ones are going t…

Ctrl-xcv still work there, you can cut and paste. Interestingly article, but it says more about how to be a Growth Hacker Advisor than how to be a Growth Hacker. Of course, that is…

Riddles are useless interview tools. When I am building a new dev team or adding to an existing one, I care about two things: 1. Did the candidate make a critical contribution to a…

Never met a recruiter who was as considerate of my time as I was of theirs. Interesting this one has the opposite problem.

The scary thing is I can't decide if this is more of a critique of people who hire programmers or of the different tools (e.g. woods and hammers) that programmers use.

A lot of the foundation of Agile is improving communication. Communication works better face to face. Whether there are mitigating factors such as not being able to get really awes…

Wouldn't it be nice if defending against frivolous patents didn't cost $1.5M. Unfortunately, it does cost that much. There are 3 problems that make this so: 1. The courts are unpre…

Less than 1000 visits and we're already going to start chalking up the wisdom that's been learned? This is way too early and the traffic achieved is well down into the noise. CPC i…

Smart people are assholes, it goes with the territory. Not all, but many are. It's insecurity coupled with the incredible pain that comes when other smart people catch you being wr…

Agree with the sentiment. It seems like sliders are there for gratuitous sex and violence (to paraphrase a line from Never Say Never). In other words, on commercial sites that don'…

What a pity the lawyers have misinterpreted the patent to mean that the application's language itself should be non-obvious to a person having ordinary skill in the art.

CNCCookbook is my solo startup: http://smoothspan.wordpress.com/2013/01/06/a-solo-bootstrapp...

If he can learn 37 programming languages, he can learn how to market well enough to bootstrap a company. This is just a long list of excuses not to even get started. There are so m…

This article assumes all knowledge is equally valuable, equally hard to gain, and decays at the same rate, but none of that is true. Frameworks change constantly, computer language…

Nooooo. They are being managed by software. Facebook has 1 admin per 1000 MySQL instances. You can't do that except with software. If the DevOps guy is spending much time touching …

The scariest thing in the article is the unemployment graph from Calculated Risk. Isn't it interested at how Wall Street has gotten better and better at inflating bubbles that take…

Wealth is not revenue, it is income that comes about in abundance. To increase income either increase revenue or decrease expenses. It turns out that decreasing expenses is nearly …

At this late stage in the game, learning a new language for me is a matter of deciding on a project and building it while keeping some appropriate reference at hand. If I read a bo…

"VC-istan innovation is over" Maybe. Much as I'd like to believe it, there are some things that can't be bootstrapped. Actually there are many things. We just don't do them because…

You can live off a laptop, but that's not what mobile first is about. The desktop is not at all dead if the alternative is only reaching pad and smartphone users. Not even close to…

Oh golly, a PermaBear blog. That's going to be upbeat now isn't it? The trouble with Eeyore's and Chicken Little's is they are always right. That is they become right if you wait l…

Aside from the bit about loneliness, which I regard as his personal problem, this is the lifestyle I aim for. I don't want to be on the road constantly, but my life and I love trav…

While I am skeptical about a continuous release cycle, Agile methodologies work well for Enterprise software. I've used them at all of my Enterprise gigs, including selling multi-m…

Talking to people who just bought or just quit is great, but if that's all you do, a lot of key insights will be missed: - Talking to people who didn't buy, but instead bought a co…

I like it! Now how do we put a similar incentive in place at the corporate level to get them to hire onshore?