I like the old chestnut about Bloomberg removing all the chairs from conference rooms so meetings would be more efficient; maybe that’s why his company is killing it. - http://betashop.com/post...
It is often said of European VCs that they lack the gumption of the Sand Hill road mob — the kind of formalised chutzpah that turns garage upstarts into grade A businesses. European investors, it is said, need data, data and more data, followed by proof of concept, before they are willing to stump up any capital. And to some extent that remains... - http://betashop.com/post...
I don’t think Apple realizes how badly the App Store approval process is broken. Or rather, I don’t think they realize how much it matters that it’s broken. - http://betashop.com/post...
So, I’m challenging you ladies, GET OUT THERE. Fail, over and over until you succeed. Let’s show this crop of high school girls how awesome it is to be a woman that produces awesome software. Let’s focus on clean code, and beautiful apps, and getting the recognition for what’s important;not being a WOMAN in software but for being an amazing... - http://betashop.com/post...
Dog shit is the new dog food … and that’s a good thing. Too many startups are still too afraid to ship it. I advised two startups yesterday who both were in the same situation of over analyzing and over stressing their first release. They had too many features on their alpha list and were just making things more complex than it needed to be. My... - http://betashop.com/post...