Adam Kazwell is...somewhat concerned:

Three Rivers Institute » Approaching a Minimum Viable Product

"The purpose of the MVP is to answer your most pressing question, to validate your most pressing business assumption. To create an MVP work backwards from your question, not forwards from a feature list. Invest as little as possible to answer the question because after this there will be another question and another and you’ll need enough money to answer them all."

(tags: quotes design startups)
"Stress primarily comes from not taking action over something that you can have some control over. "

(tags: quotes amazon)

Interesting changes afoot for some established startups

Threadless designer to Digg, Digg designer to Tiny Speck, College Humor designer to Boxee...others?

(tags: design trends)
Subtraction.com: Our Craigslist

great attempt at a reasonable (ie: mostly text) redesign of craigslist. also loved the deck created to discuss the changes (ie: the brand and the logo)

(tags: design)

First & 20

"A Collection of iPhone Home Screens - from some very talented designers, developers and tech writers"

(tags: design apple iphone)

Your Post Box Is Too Small

"The tendency of software is to bloat. To include more and “better” features and these things compete for the attention of managers, developers, designers, and other people who work on the software...The problem is when it manifests itself in a way that competes (and wins) against the core use cases and slows down users."

(tags: design web blogs)
10 questions for chris anderson, editor-in-chief for wired magazine | Gapingvoid

"Obviously, balance is a distant goal. In the meantime, I delegate, work all the time, hardly sleep, totally ignore politics, sports and pop culture, neglect my family too much and probably don't do any of my jobs as well as I could. But these are exciting days, and if ever these was a time to be overextended this is it.
Don't wait to be given a job to do something cool. Follow your
passions, create something every day, take chances and try to be the
best in the world at something, no matter how tiny and trivial.
Nothing impresses me more than initiative. And there has never been a
better time to take it.

I think that leading people is perhaps the most important skill these days.
Helping (and inspiring) other people to do cool stuff is what an editor
does, and when you take it out of a purely professional media context that looks more and more like effective community management. It's a great skill and I admire those who do it well."

(tags: career howto quotes wired gapingvoid)

"Make something weighty and you’ll be far less vulnerable to the ups and downs of the market."

"Benjamin Graham famously said that the stock market is a voting machine in the short run and weighing machine in the long run. The same is true of startups. Make something weighty – try to build an empire – and you’ll be far less vulnerable to the ups and downs of the market."

(tags: quotes startups trends)

Adam Kazwell is...somewhat concerned