An interesting TED talk on the increasing prevalence of algorithms in our lives, with examples mostly drawn from the financial markets. Watching it, I noticed a couple of things he got wrong. For most TED talks, I know nothing about the subject. I assume the…
Successful software exists to solve a problem; be it boredom or too much stuff. One way to drive traffic to your site and improve your search engine ranking is to write a helpful guide to solving the problem without your software. It is important that you…
We're having performance and mail server problems with our shared hosting plan from UltimaHosts, so this discussion of mail problems on shared servers was very interesting. Our problems are with performance, rather than being blacklisted, but the consensus of not doing real work on shared…
Thinking about getting business cards printed? Once you have a nice logo, check out these opinions about where to get your cards. VistaPrint gets slammed. When ordering, it is a good idea to have the back matte, as many people like to make a few notes on a…
TechStars is a Boulder, Colorado based clone of Y Combinator. They are doing their first round of companies this summer. They provide $5k/founder, plus office space, servers, classes and some pretty serious contacts. They take 5% of the company. They have received 175 applications so…
Most micro-ISVs have a single founder who works in his spare time until there is enough revenue to quit. While safe, that violates several of Paul Graham's 18 mistakes that kill startups. I'm almost done reading Founders at Work, which reinforces his points; many of the founders warn…
I wrote about a proposed change in the accredited investor definition a few days ago. From talking with Steve Murchie at the Keiretsu Forum, I learned that, ...there is an even more progressive measure in Congress with bi-partisan support that would give a 25% tax…
We're developing an Excel Add-in and we are trying to figure out the size of the market. I asked the BoS forum about this, and several people pointed out that the Excel user base is not a relevant number. Adrian said it best, Selling software is about…
http://tools.google.com/gapminder displays the changes in per capita GDP and life expectancy across countries over the last 20 years. Having just read And the Band Played On, watching the life expectancy in South Africa fall is especially tragic. The default income scale is logarithmic, changing it to…