Steve Jobs would practice Management By Walking Around. It’s somewhat ironic that the once-a-smelly-hippy turned CEO of Apple with no business school experience, and an attitude of anathema to traditional management school, would practice such a commonly-espoused management technique. Peer coding at StepOut. It’s simple but powerful technique – just get up from your desk, walk around, roll up your Read the article >>
Foremost, stop yourself from distractions. Study your change request, first, as a user of your product. Do not forget that before you were an engineer, you were a user. Read and re-read the objectives and their supporting data, let them marinate with your conception of your product. Open your browser, type in your products URL & immerse yourself, but only with your user mind. Understand the Read the article >>
From the handy tip department: It’s really nice to have built-in in-line logging for your application. I’m often asked to debug issues in StepOut’s application that would be tough to handle if I was just dropping `echo()` and `die()s` everywhere. In particular, performance issues are a pain to debug without a built-in infrastructure that can spit out performance statistics at any time. Of course Read the article >>
What are google glasses? Google Project Glass is a product that Google is working on, in the R & D stages. It can be described as a wearable augmented reality display, designed to allow users to perform computing tasks hands-free. Instead of using a keyboard and mouse, users would speak commands, which would then be translated from natural langauge commands into commands for the device via Read the article >>
The first thing people ask me when they haven’t seen me in a while is “How’s StepOut?”. I find it playfully amusing that, to others, I’m the “Indian online dating guy”. Not because I have any particular special amused sentiment towards India, online dating, or the web itself, just because it’s something I never thought I’d be doing professionally. Work as Self I used to hate pitching the company. Read the article >>
One of the biggest challenges you’ll faces as a technical co-founder of a social startup is that of equanimity. You sit at the intersection of product and technology. The contrast in approaches in those areas is often under-stated and always under-recognized. In product, as CTO, you’re injected into the thought-stream torrent that results in strategic decision making, yet have little-to-no influence Read the article >>
I have a new personal maxim. For myself. And a new personal standard for the people I spend time with, both socially & professionally, in 2012. Create more value than you capture. ~Tim O’Reilly As we grow our business, I’m finding than the type of people that are worth my time follow this maxim, whether consciously or unconsciously. Think about the traits of someone who creates more value Read the article >>
2 weeks ago, the #occupywallst protestors were been kicked out of zuccotti park in Manhattan. It’s time to move the protest to the web. It’s time to #occupytheweb I am announcing today the relaunch of TOSAmend with Law Professor, Zev Eigen. We’ve ironed out the kinks and now we think TOSAmend will hold up in court – at least for some contracts . What is TOSAmend? TOSAmend is a free & easy Read the article >>
This post is pretty technical. If you don’t cross your 1s or circle your 0s, then it’s probably best to move on to something more fruitful for you, business monkey. I’ve always thought that a major challenge in building a dev team is continuously improving how effectively you can respond to changes in your metrics day-to-day. One of those tasks I face is a sweep daily of our error logs. If you, Read the article >>
TechStars (I’m an alumni) has a 6-episode series about startups and entrepreneurship on Bloomberg TV. Watch the Techstars Bloomberg TV Show on cable or online, below. These guys gave Ignighter it’s start, and Adam, Dan, and I are more than thankful to executive director David Cohen for the doors he’s opened for us. If you’re interested in entrepreneurship or starting your own web company, Read the article >>