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“Take a job that you love. I think you are out of your mind if you keep taking jobs that you don’t like because you think it will look good on your resume. Isn’t that a little like saving up sex for your old age?” Meetup this Weds night in SF: I’m hosting a meetup with some entrepreneur friends on Weds 5/9. Everyone’s welcome.
20 Uncommon Lessons from My Weekend with Warren Buffett (career & life advice most don’t talk about
Before signing up for your local startup accelerator or incubator, there are a few things you should keep in mind. Is your pitch perfected? Does it matter which group you join?
15 entrepreneurs give tips on getting the most out of an incubator or accelerator
How To Build An iPhone App Without Hiring A Developer - Business Insider
There are now some great tools available to help you build and publish a competitive app, with no programming knowledge required -- and at a fraction of the cost of hiring a developer. From coding to submitting to updating, these services do the technical work for you -- all you need is a creative vision. Many of these services do the same thing: they take your online content and integrate it into an app.Web Design Elements: Examples And Best Practices - Smashing Magazine | Smashing Magazine
This overview features a hand-picked and organized selection of the most useful and popular Smashing Magazine’s articles featuring various building blocks of a website and published here over all the years. Call to action in web design — and in user experience (UX) in particular — is a term used for elements in a web page that solicit an action from the user. The most popular manifestation of call to action in web interfaces comes in the form of clickable buttons that when clicked, perform an action (e.g. "Buy this now!") or lead to a web page with additional information (e.g.
iPhone App Design Trends | Smashing Magazine
For the past two years, the elegant iPhone has housed some of the most poorly designed applications you could imagine. The hype surrounding iPhone has prompted many designers across the globe to try their skills with the new mobile medium. The result are literally thousands of various iPhone-applications that are often hardly usable and counter-intuitive. However, some designers invest a lot of time and efforts into creating usable and original user interfaces (yes, there are usable and creative UIs). This article explores the ways in which designers use graphical elements and screen interactions to create iPhone-applications that are easy on the eyes and mind . The aim of this article is to display common trends and design approaches in iPhone app design – please notice that they are not necessarily optimal ones from the design or usability point of view.
You get 100% control over the means of payment, promotion and distribution to users… which could also be a negative, depending on how you look at it. Designing a Web app for this platform is much like designing a native app, so you’ll have access to some really great tools. Whether your wireframing tool of choice is pencil and paper or desktop software, you’re covered. Paper prototyping has long been my tool of choice for wireframing new ideas or websites. What I really like about the tools below is that they provide perspective on the size and dimensional constraints that you’re dealing with.
Web Development For The iPhone And iPad: Getting Started | Smashing Magazine
The iPhone 4 features a vastly superior display resolution (614400 pixels) over previous iPhone models, containing quadruple the 153600-pixel display of the iPhone 3GS. The screen is the same physical size, so those extra dots are used for additional detail — twice the detail horizontally, and twice vertically. For developers only using Apple’s user interface elements, most of the work is already done for you.
Designing for iPhone 4 Retina Display: Techniques and Workflow | Smashing Magazine
Steve Job's Technical Co-Founder “I’ve got this HUGE idea. I just need to find a technical co-founder .” Ugh. I’ve heard that too many times over the last few years and it almost always ends badly .
Guide to Finding a Technical Co-Founder | Vinicius Vacanti
Alex Goldfayn’s new book is called Evangelist Marketing: What Apple Amazon and Netflix Understand About Their Customers (That Your Company Probably Doesn’t). He is CEO of the Evangelist Marketing Institute, a marketing consultancy with clients that include T-Mobile, TiVo and Logitech. Experience is the enemy of thinking big.
How to Think Big in Business
Adam Smith, in Wealth of Nations , talked about an ” invisible hand “. Basically, by businesses pursuing their own interests, they end up helping society much more than they had intended, led by an “invisible hand”. “…he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention… By pursuing his own interest he frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it.”
The Invisible Hand of the Internet | Vinicius Vacanti
The good news is that it’s easier than you think to get 1,000 people to try your site. The bad news is that it’s really hard to get those people to turn into users, users that create an account, users that come back repeatedly and users that tell their friends about your site. This post is about how to get 1,000 people to try your site so you can find out what isn’t working, iterate and keep trying to build a site that people, other than your mom, actually come back to. I’ll write a future post on how to retain those users. Get Yourself a Domain Name and a Splash Page You should set up your splash page today.
How To Get Your First 1,000 Users | Vinicius Vacanti
What if you had a nickle for every time you heard: " I have the perfect idea for a great application! "? It’s the buzz on the street. The iPhone has created unprecedented excitement and innovation from people both inside and outside the software development community.
How To Create Your First iPhone Application | Smashing Coding
Here's my compilation of 2011's best posts about managing startups. I assembled similar lists at the end of 2010 and 2009 . Please use comments to suggest additional posts. Happy New Year! The Startup Genome Project presents research on thousands of startups in a pair of reports. Be sure to read their report on premature scaling, the leading cause of startup failure.
There are maybe some useful articles, but badly it's not well sorted to find them... by wepeuh Apr 13