Posts under ‘Practical Tips’

As many of you know, we’ve been doing a lot of traveling back and forth between Chicago and Seattle, with occasional trips to SF and Irvine.  Even with the annoying travel restrictions, travel is still fun and incredibly useful for a virtual organization like ours.  After my last trip, here are some random thoughts:
Pros:

Traveling can [...]

In a previous life, one where I was actually being paid to write software, I was a hermit.  I spent most of my time in my office, door closed, heads-down on whatever the must-fix technical problem of the moment was.  In my naiveté I figured that the rewards and recognition should come based mainly on [...]

Sometimes a routine event in corporate life takes on a whole different meaning when it occurs in the context of a small startup.  Take, for example, being sick.  At Microsoft I’d never hesitate to use the health benefits and get a checkup at the slightest sign of a sniffle or cough.  Better to be safe [...]

Guy Kawasaki just posted an MP3 recording from an event known as the Art of the Start, where well-known venture capitalists from Silicon Valley gather to discuss the business environment for startups and strategies for raising capital in various market sectors. You can download it here.

The recording lasts an hour and can be a [...]

I recently learned about LeapFish, a site which offers estimates on the value of any given domain name. For each domain they calculate a CVS (Combined Value Score), which is composed of a number of factors, including whether it’s a .com/.org/.net, how similarly it matches a dictionary word, and the number of search results on [...]