22Dec/100
Holiday Pause on Yard Sale Interviews
This week's observation: getting interviews with folks is tough. I'm not sure what the exact take away is from this observation yet, but I have three hypothesis. Here there are, and how I'll test them: It may be a "holiday season" thing. To test this, I'll postpone the search for new interview candidates until after Jan 10 [...]15Dec/101
Do We Have a Problem? I Sure Hope So
I already have a company, with some very important and exciting challenges. But a girl needs to have some fun too! So here goes. Since I believe we have the ability to make our own luck AND I'd like to have some fun AND I've recently had to furnish an entire house, here's a problem I'd [...]16May/100
How to Get Funding for an Idea?
Be a tall, athletic Stanford-graduate male. Otherwise, you'll need more than an idea - you'll need product/market fit. I'm a short, geeky female with a degree from an east-coast art school. Looks like I'll have to build a highly valuable company in order to get some VC love :) I'm up for the challenge, how about you? Actually, I [...]11May/105
Touchpoints When Preparing a Release
Ok, so you've written the code. You've tested, retested, run the beta, rewritten and retested again and again. It's as perfect as it's going to get so you're ready for production. Right? Wrong. Let's take yesterday's release over at Passpack for example. It was mostly a bundle of fixes and couple of minor features - nothing milestone. [...]6Apr/106