A cofounder left not too long ago. At his farewell dinner, he said something about minimal products that stuck with me: “We have made many mistakes, one of which was to build a full-featured product to solve a need that we thought was important. Instead we could have done a small manual prototype, and verify [...]
Have you ever had “THE IDEA”? It suddenly hit you, THAT WAS IT. You knew what to do. All you had to do now was to execute THE IDEA, and success would follow. You’re not crazy though, so you made sure to validate this idea. Talk to your friends, even potential customers, survey them, listen [...]
It’s election time in France. We’re going to elect a new president in a few months. What is it for? Are things going to change if we elect the “right” president? It seems to me current political systems are broken in fundamental ways. The society seems to be geared towards even more power distributed to [...]
I hear that all the time. I want to start a web application/mobile application/business. I just don’t have an idea yet. Rob Walling explains in his book “start small, stay small” (yes, that’s a book I quote often around here. You should get it), that there are good and bad reasons to start a business. The [...]
