Bare Naked App by Carson Workshops
May 10, 2006 in 4 out of 5 stars, A blogBare Naked App by Carson Workshops: A simple blog where they document the building of their next web app. The Carson Workshop Clan By documenting some of the little steps, including estimating timelines and costs, picking freelancers, branding, naming, and legal decisions, they're freely giving visitors the benefit of their experience (which they gained building DropSend). Entrepreneurs, particularly those building a web app, will instantly relate with the information here. It's so common to find yourself wishing you had a yardstick to measure your own decisions against. Bare Naked App is a nice yardstick. Make sure you start at the beginning. I just read every word. This is good stuff. Kudos to the team at Carson Workshops. Even more detail, but they've got a web app to build! So I suspect we'll have some good post mortem information like they provided with DropSend. For some unfortunate reason you won't pick up all the posts if you only look through the archives by date. Free Reviewed by Carson McComasWhat is it?
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Guy Kawasaki's Blog
January 10, 2006 in 5 out of 5 stars, A blog , A personGuy Kawasaki's Blog: Guy, the premier entrepreneur's inspiration and expert finally (FINALLY) has a blog. It started at the end of Dec '05 and I was compelled to immediately post about it here. But I put my emotion and admiration for the man on hold long enough to see if he was going to do a quality job. Well, it probably hasn't been long enough yet, but his stuff is just so gosh darned good that you've got to get over there while you can start at the beginning and read it all. Guy Kawasaki Guy's book, The Art of the Start is the best book on entrepreneurism I've ever seen. He's a veteran, a realist, and a great writer. He's a VC with an entrepreneur's heart and his blog is chock full of that goodness. Take this excellent entry from 1/8/06, with this snippet:
I'm saying it's okay to ship crap--I'm not saying that it's okay to stay crappy. A company must improve version 1.0 and create version 1.1, 1.2, ... 2.0. This is a difficult lesson to learn because it's so hard to ship an innovation; therefore, the last thing employees want to deal with is complaints about their perfect baby. Innovation is not an event. It's a process. His design is a template! Come on Guy, hire someone to make it sexy. (ok fine, so he's practicing what he's preaching in my quote above). Nada Reviewed by Carson McComasWhat is it?
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Venture Voice, Entertaining Entrepreneurship
July 1, 2005 in 3 out of 5 stars, A blog , A podcastVenture Voice, Entertaining Entrepreneurship: Interesting Podcasts of interviews with high profile and successful entrepreneurs (so far). Gregory Galant and Aaron Quint Well the site is quite young, so we'll see what the future holds, but they are off to a stellar start. They landed some whales for the first 3 interviews.
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- Dick Costolo of FeedBurner
- Philip Kaplan of F___d Company and AdBrite
- Joe Kraus of JotSpot and Bnoopy (formerly Excite)
I listened to all of them yesterday and enjoyed the inside story, ramblings and ideas put out by these guys who know their stuff. Inspiring and informational. I think Greg (a super sharp guy) is still finding his interviewers stride, which must be very hard to do over the phone. The audio quality is also tinny because it's over the phone (maybe these guys need to try Skype?). Free like kittens Reviewed by Carson McComasWhat could be improved?
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