I just got a call from the founder of a new consumer Web startup, and I found myself beating the same drum that I’ve been hammering on in other similar conversations recently: the more ambitious your vision, the more you need to “atomize” it. By atomize I mean find the most compact unit of value continue…
With a two-kid, two-career household, neither my wife nor I get much uninterrupted personal time, so one of the greatest luxuries of our recent weekend away was the ability to read not one but two books from cover to cover. As I mentioned last week, the first was Barack Obama’s 1995 memoir, Dreams from My continue…
I had a great conversation this week with three other Seattle-area serial entrepreneurs and seed investors. Among the topics we covered were: what motivates talented people to join startups, and what kind of people are most likely to thrive in a startup environment. I’ll cover the first topic in another post, but in this one, continue…
Q: How did you come up with the idea for Askablogr? [mostly just testing the product – don’t need to answer!] Posted by rr A: Hi RR – thanks for the question (even if you’re just testing this will show you the process flow from end-to-end). The sequence went something like this: I sat down continue…