Category: General
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Let’s meet at SXSW
It’s that time of year again: I’ll be at the SXSW Interactive festival next week. From March 12th through the 15th, latakoo will be on stand #308, talking about what we’re doing – and for much of the time, so will I. Come say hi! Of course, there’s far more to SXSW than the trade […]
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10 rules for startups
The user isn’t the product being sold. The user is the customer. Startups become big by empowering their customers with great products and services that allow them to do things that were previously difficult or impossible. A company is a group of people with a shared goal. Everyone deserves a chance to make progress on […]
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Pinwheel, Outmap and the literally global web
When I said my final goodbyes to my team at Curverider and switched off for the day, I sat on my sofa and asked myself: what am I going to do next? I had the beginnings of an answer already. People were beginning to take the web out into the world, rather than consume it […]
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Bootstraps
In the comments to this 37signals blog post (which is excellent), dhh and commenter Dave Christiansen collaboratively coined a term for startup companies that aim to go into the black as soon as possible and grow under their own steam: bootstraps. I’m in love with this. Bootstraps give entrepreneurs full control over their businesses, without […]