April 2008
5 posts
Geography →
Think you know the globe inside and out? Give this addicting flash game a spin and put yourself to the test.
DHH on how not to do a web startup →
It seems that the hallmark of the Web 2.0 movement has been a bubble of time instead of venture financing (as was the case in the first internet boom). The swell of small companies and sites has been driven by the entrepreneurially-minded sinking their own time and effort into ideas that they’re passionate about, which in the end (I think) is likely to be more sustainable because...
Don't reinvent the wheel (or how not to end up as... →
The new-restaurant-to-web-startup analogy is fundamentally a good one, and it does a very good job of driving home the main point: as a startup, you don’t have the time or resources to reinvent the wheel for all the low-level services that your business relies on. At some level, you’re going to have to rely on others, and the sooner you realize that the sooner you’ll be able to...
Eating at a swanky restaurant on the cheap →
The author makes a good point - you don’t need to blow a huge stack of money to have a good meal at a high-end restaurant. Be smart about it instead.
