Noted American technology investor and all-around smart guy Paul Graham wrote recently about emerging trends in startup funding, specifically that convertible notes and rolling closes are displacing the traditional equity rounds done at a fixed valuation done with angel syndicates. Did that sound like Greek to you? Great, you might benefit from this translation of Financier [...]
I apologize in advance for spelling mistakes, because I am writing this on my iPad on the bullet train to Tokyo. Wonderful device, not so great for writing lengthy blog posts like my usual. I am on the way to Tokyo because a high school friend is there this week. As soon as I heard, I [...]
One of the attractions of having a website is that it operates twenty four hours a day, 365 days a year. However, depending on what your market is, it might not operate evenly on all of those days. The phenomenon of market seasonality is well-understood in offline businesses — ice cream shops do most business in the [...]
Some months ago when the 99designs fixed-price logo store launched, my buddy Thomas at Matasano remarked that it would have been the perfect choice for my business. I said that, while I’m quite impressed with 99designs’ business model and many of the logos on offer, I thought the less-generic-looking logo which I had custom-made fairly [...]
This is a rough outline of my verbal remarks while giving a presentation at the Software Industry Conference. Regular readers of my blog will notice it has a lot of overlap with previous posts on the topic, but I thought posting it would save presentation watchers from having to take copious notes on URLs and [...]
I’m currently in Dallas at the Software Industry Conference, where I’ll be giving a presentation about SEO strategies on Saturday. In the meanwhile, if you’re at the conference or feel like coming out to the Hyatt Regency, feel free to get in touch with me. As you have probably guessed, I’ll be posting the presentation and [...]
Yesterday about a hundred thousand people visited this blog due to my post on names, and the server it was on died several fiery deaths. This has been a persistent issue for me in dealing with Apache (the site dies nearly every time I get Reddited — with only about 10,000 visitors each time, which shouldn’t be [...]
if (typeof window.Delicious == “undefined”) window.Delicious = {}; Delicious.BLOGBADGE_GRAPH_SHOW = false;Delicious.BLOGBADGE_TAGS_SHOW = false; John Graham-Cumming wrote an article today complaining about how a computer system he was working with described his last name as having invalid characters. It of course does not, because anything someone tells you is their name is — by definition — an appropriate identifier for [...]
I am a big believer in not spending time creating features until you know customers actually need them. This goes the same for OSS projects: there is no point in overly complicating things until “customers” tell you they need to be a little more complicated. (Helpfully, here some customers are actually capable of helping themselves… [...]
About four years ago, I started offering Bingo Card Creator for purchase. Today, I stopped offering it. That isn’t true, strictly speaking. The original version of Bingo Card Creator was a downloadable Java application. It has gone through a series of revisions over the years, but is still there in all its Swing-y glory. Last year, [...]
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