Blogs

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“Fantastic” beats “efficient”

February 21, 2011 | Jason Cohen

What if you decided to provide something tremendously fantastic for your customers, even though it meant great expense and hardship? This one thing would…

 

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Naming your startup: Settle down, it’s cool!

February 16, 2011 | Jason Cohen

Finding and agreeing upon a worthy name is always a struggle, especially if you have co-founders. This is one of those emotional decisions where…

 

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The new compensation: going to anti-hoarders?

February 14, 2011 | Robert Scoble

Today Rocky and I visited Yammer’s headquarters and had an interesting chat with founder/CEO David Sacks.  Click here for the interview. Don’t know what…

 

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What did they do before you came along?

February 9, 2011 | Jason Cohen

Guest Post by Jason Cohen. Here’s a simple question, often asked when designing software but more useful when you’re designing your marketing and sales…

 

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Vetting a startup (or two): The systematic birth of @WPEngine

February 2, 2011 | Jason Cohen

Guest post by Jason Cohen. Let me dispose of any lingering ideas that WPEngine was a great flash of insight, born perfect from conception…

 

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The hallway conversations I had at World Economic Forum

January 31, 2011 | Robert Scoble

This week I’ve been wandering the hallways at the World Economic Forum meeting interesting people. Instead of keeping those conversations to myself I pulled…

 

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Single boot Linux on an Intel Mac Mini

January 28, 2011 | building43

Guest post by Major Hayden. After reading the title of this post, you might wonder “Why would someone pay for a Mac Mini and…

 

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Marketing Platform Independence

January 26, 2011 | Jason Cohen

Guest post by Jason Cohen. Some startups die because their business model is platform-dependent. Like this: Used to be, Twitter let you post anything,…

 

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Strategies for storing backups

January 21, 2011 | building43

Guest post by Major Hayden. Although it’s not a glamorous subject for system administrators, backups are necessary for any production environment. Those who run…

 

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Build your own Startup Death Clock

January 19, 2011 | Jason Cohen

Guest post by Jason Cohen. A few months ago I created a fun device at WPEngine to focus everyone’s attention the most important thing.…

 
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