Shortly after leaving Microsoft to work on MarkedUp full time, my founding team and I joined an early stage accelerator here in Santa Monica. We’ve gotten a tremendous amount of value from it so far, and the directors of the accelerator have done a great job helping me prioritize...
Software Engineering Priorities for Early Stage Companies: Put the Team First
Team first.
Earlier this week I made a pilgrimage up to the Bay Area to visit some mentors – I came seeking advice from entrepreneurs who’ve done work relevant to our interests at MarkedUp, mostly to learn how to address some “known unknowns” that have been keeping...
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Seven Unproductive Habits of Startup Founders
Now that I’m running my own company and no longer speak on behalf of Microsoft or anyone else, I feel like I can speak a little bit more freely about some of the things I’ve observed about people at startup companies over the past couple of years.
I worked with...
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One of the things we have to do at New Change in the Windows Store TOS: Any App with the Word “Metro” in the Title is Insta-Failed
I thought this was an interesting side-effect of Microsoft’s decision to surrender on the trademark dispute around “Metro,” so I figured I would reblog this from the official MarkedUp blog.
original link: The MarkedUp Blog - New Change in the Windows Store TOS: Any App with the Word...
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Today I am Leaving Microsoft and Starting my Own Company
I’ve spent my last two weeks at Microsoft wondering how I was going to write this blog post.
Microsoft recruited me off of Hacker News two years ago. In the Summer of 2010 I was still brushing off the ashes of my first failed startup when I wrote...
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Why Front-End Web Development Makes Me Sad, Issue #1092145
I have an internal reporting interface for one of my Windows Phone 7 applications that shows me more or less how much of the app is getting used every day, and I developed the reports using the eternally awesome jqPlot charting plugin for jQuery.
I generate three line plots...
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Taking Risks Requires Practice
And patience. This is intended for people who recognize that a need to change themselves, their environment, or whatever and are having trouble getting started.
Until last month, all of the books in my Kindle collection were exclusively technical.
Whenever I travel for work and spend two hours uncomfortably seated...
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College: Four Years Later
This is intended for recent graduates who are finding themselves lost in the shuffle as they adjust to the real world, but has advice that is applicable to everyone. Your mileage may vary.
I graduated from Vanderbilt University with a B.S. in Computer Science in May of 2008. I was...