Category Archives: Startup Teams

Where the tech ladies at?

By colin | Published: April 21, 2010
My friend Elizabeth Stark has been on a rampage ( a good one ) about the lack of women in technology. Her recent article titled Mentors Matter highlights disappointing numbers like 6 females of 53 entrepreneurs were featured in a New York Mag article on the NYC startup scene. (BTW, that’s 11.3% compared to the [...]
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Minimum Viable Product

By colin | Published: April 8, 2010
Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is a concept popularized for web application development by Eric Ries. …the minimum viable product is that product which has just those features (and no more) that allows you to ship a product that resonates with early adopters; some of whom will pay you money or give you feedback. I apply [...]
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Five reasons smart startups use Rails

By colin | Published: March 24, 2010
It’s 2010. You want to build an web application. PHP is dead. Java is dead. Use Rails If you’ve got a blank slate, use Rails. If you’ve only built a prototype, switch to Rails as soon as possible. If you decide to ignore Rails you’re one of two things: Much smarter than me. You’ve won [...]
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37 Signals new book: Rework

By colin | Published: March 22, 2010
Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson of 37 Signals have created the Anti-Business – a deliciously small, opinionated organization that scoffs at the structures and mantras of the traditional corporation. In Rework, JF and DHH refine many of the concepts from 37 Signals previous book: “Getting Real“. Frequent readers of the 37 Signals blog “SVN” [...]
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A response to “Why don’t startups hire MBAs?”

By colin | Published: March 4, 2010
Why don’t startups hire MBAs? A friend posted the following text on Facebook and I decided it warranted a response below. The problem with startups is that they think that just because you’ve never been involved in one, you would be incapable of adding value. This especially true if you have “MBA” painted on your [...]
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