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Joel on Software

New startup incubator in Cambridge, England

Red Gate Software has launched a startup incubator in Cambridge. Free office space, internet access, room, board, advice, and pocket money. (Iâ€™m one of the people giving advice). For a first, itâ€™s really free; Red Gate isn't t

Posted: Aug. 13, 2009 02:53 PM

Seth Godin at the Business of Software Conference

Seth Godin: â€œIf youâ€™re going to interrupt everybody with an ad, it better be something everybody wants to buy. So what do you end up with? Average products for average people.â€ If youâ€™ve ever heard Seth speak, youâ€™ve had your mind blown. W

Posted: Jul. 31, 2009 11:17 AM

The Day My Industry Died

â€œEvery single industry was going to be turned upside down! New industries would be created! Start-ups would make people rich! Which is really nice, because it's awesome to be rich! And, bonus: It'll never be winter again!â€ In this monthâ€™s

Posted: Jul. 23, 2009 04:53 PM

Web Startup Success Guide

Congratulations to Bob Walsh on publishing his Web Startup Success Guide (to which I wrote the foreword). His interview with GTD Guru David Allen, which is chapter 8, can be read online. Need to hire a really great programmer? Want a job th

Posted: Jul. 23, 2009 04:44 PM

EBS 2.0

Brett Kiefer describes Evidence Based Scheduling 2.0 on the FogBugz Blog: â€œEBS 2.0 gives you the vocabulary of strict dependencies and start dates. You can now say â€˜No one can travel back in time until the Flux Capacitor is complete and the d

Posted: Jul. 23, 2009 04:41 PM

Fruity treats, customization, and supersonics: FogBugz 7 is here

A year ago today, FogBugz development was in disarray. The original roadmap was too complicatedWe had done this big offsite at a beach house in the Hamptons and came up with a complicated roadmap that involved splitting FogBugz into two separate pro

Posted: Jul. 20, 2009 01:00 PM

Why Wolfram Alpha fails

Mencius Moldbug : â€œThey create an incomplete model of the giant electronic brain in their own, non-giant, non-electronic brains. Of course, since the giant electronic brain is a million lines of code which is constantly changing, this is a painf

Posted: Jul. 9, 2009 05:25 PM

The eternal optimism of the Clear mind

Clear just closed down. Hereâ€™s how it worked while it was in business. You paid $200 for a one-year membership. You underwent a big, complicated background check to prove that you were extra-super-trustworthy. In exchange, in a few big airports,

Posted: Jun. 23, 2009 11:32 PM

Platform vendors

Dave Winer (in 2007): â€œSometimes developers choose a niche thatâ€™s either directly in the path of the vendor, or even worse, on the roadmap of the vendor. In those cases, they donâ€™t really deserve our sympathy.â€ iSmashPhone: 15 Apps Rendered

Posted: Jun. 10, 2009 03:45 PM

A visit to Microsoft and Google

From my latest Inc. column: â€œGiant corporations such as Google and Microsoft are like cities full of relatively anonymous people: You don't actually expect to see anyone you know as you walk around. Going to lunch on either campus is like going to

Posted: Jun. 10, 2009 01:56 PM