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Pattern recognition for smartphone investors | asymco Tue Apr 12 15:19:33 UTC 2011
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2011.04.13 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
The world has plenty of great specialists. The rare part is that each of those modest skills is collected in one person. That's how value is created.
Fail Forward. If you're taking risks, and you probably should, you can find yourself failing 90% of the time. The trick is to get paid while you're doing the failing and to use the experience to gain skills that will be useful later.
Students should be taught that failure is a process, not an obstacle.
To succeed, first you must do something. Luck finds the doers.
The point is that people can be trained to replace fear and shyness with enthusiasm.
Write Simply.
2011.04.12 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
if you wanted to build an open source railroad across the US, first: you need to build the first 100 miles, to show people how it's done…then, you need to build an awesome resort town at the end to give something that people want to get to.
the value of an idea is 0, unless it can be communicated
the goal of prototypes is to convince yourself and others of an idea and to help you understand what you don't need to do...How does it make your life better?
Rules for prototyping:
1. No matter how good you are, there is no substitute for trying it.
2. Aim to finish the first pass in a day (forces you to take all the right short cuts)
3. you are making a touchable sketch
4. A tight feedback loop is key
5. You're iterating your solution as well as your understanding of the problem
Ask the question in the right way, the solution becomes obvious (ie: the paper plane problem)
jQuery + HTML + CSS
jqueryfordesigners.com
zoomooz.js
2011.04.11 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
There is something called “Android” that truly is open source, in the “take this and do what you want with it under this standard open source license” way. But that “Android” doesn’t include some core functionality, including maps, email, and the android market.
"None of those things are open in any sense of the word, but all of them are essential aspects of any consumer phone or tablet running Android."
2011.04.08 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/11-quotes-about-entrepreneurship-from-venture-capitalist-mark-suster?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider+(Silicon+Alley+Insider)#guys-who-went-to-high-school-together-and-knew-they-always-wanted-to-work-together-wake-up-one-day-and-realize-their-31-year-old-cofounder-has-a-girlfriend-they-realize-theyre-busting-their-ass-for-someone-who-doesnt-care-7#ixzz1IoCOky9V
2011.04.07 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
it doesn’t take many paid users to support development on an application, whereas ad-supported applications require a large number of users. A paid market can support many developers that are technically competing, while an ad-supported market encourages a few applications to dominate.
A paid market is good for developers—it means more developers can have successful businesses—but it’s also good for users.
More choice, higher quality applications, and ultimately, more innovative applications, too, because developers can experiment with new ways of doing things with less concern they won’t gain enough users to justify it.
Metacognition is the act of analyzing your own thoughts and intentions, then outsmarting them. It lets you confront and outmaneauver your worst impulses. Failure to think about thinking is why the kid who couldn’t resist eating the marshmallows grows up into the man paralyzed by Internet porn.
It’s much easier to apply metacognition if you’ve developed a goal or idealized vision of yourself in your head.
And Steve said: “Yeah, that’s exactly the way I saw the Macintosh.” He said if I asked someone who had only used a personal calculator what a Macintosh should be like they couldn’t have told me. There was no way to do consumer research on it so I had to go and create it and then show it to people and say now what do you think?
2011.04.06 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Founders then put in play every skill which makes them unique – tenacity, passion, agility, rapid pivots, curiosity, learning and discovery, improvisation, ability to bring order out of chaos, resilience, leadership and a relentless focus on execution
It may be we can increase the number of founders and entrepreneurial employees, with better tools, more money, and greater education. But it’s more likely that until we truly understand how to teach creativity, their numbers are limited.
2011.04.04 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
There is a clear relationship between a product and its interface.
it's not just about the location of a dropdown but also about all the reasons that component has to exist in the first place.
How someone uses your product to accomplish a task should be driven by why that person must take an action.
what are the goals and purpose for a particular product, and design a solution that enables meeting those objectives.
There will always be a lot of things you can do. But design should be the process of figuring out what you should do.
Pay attention to your goals, spend the most time there, and always provide value.
Great design is all the work you don't ask the people who use your products to do.
The problems we decide to solve are as important as how we solve them.
2011.04.02 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
1. Movies.xls or NameThatFilm.xls
2. Questioning the Long Tail
3. Marquette name debate
4. Business Model of a Blogger
5. Klosterman's "The (other) paradox of choice
I also write a travelog called Whereami and have a photo collection in Flickr.
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