Author's posts

Congratulations! You Have Received a Meaningless Endorsement!

From: LinkedIn

Congratulations! Someone you couldn’t stand in college, or might’ve met once at a networking event, has endorsed you for the following skills and expertise:

Creativity flourishes within constraints, from TV to iPhone apps

The Daily Show generates great material by working within a structure. The same works for iPhone apps and web sites.

Good writing can help a startup succeed

Public relations and communicating with customers are two situations where good writing can make a difference for a startup.

How to refine your elevator pitch

Elevator

To improve your elevator pitch, start with your value proposition, state your audience, listen to feedback, and remember the goal.

How Startup Weekend got our company off the ground

Startup Weekend

Here's my experience at Startup Weekend, an incubator that helped get our company off the ground.

Seven tips for being interviewed over Skype

Here’s the advice we’d give other entrepreneurs being interviewed for an audio podcast like BitBanter.

Your customers have time- and attention-deficit disorder. Deal with it.

shipping box

Here's how to better design your products around customers' time- and attention-deficit disorder, from The 24-Hour Customer.

How to make the most of a Hacker News meetup

Bar

At a Hacker News Readers meetup, here's what you'll find and how you can make connections.

What an entrepreneur can learn from Plankton on SpongeBob SquarePants

Plankton, owner of the Chum Bucket

When it comes to entrepreneurs, Plankton on SpongeBob SquarePants is pretty bad. Here are four lessons we can learn from him.

Should a startup write a business plan?

There’s strongly conflicting advice out there about whether it’s worthwhile for a startup company to write a business plan.