I took a non-traditional outsourcing route to build the majority of my product. I say “non-traditional” because instead of hiring labor overseas, I moved my entire family to India, and then to the Middle East, to do the development myself. My 4 kids, my wife … Read More »
Archive for June 2007
_Jay originally published his piece on “Start-Up Review”:http://www.startup-review.com/blog/about, “here”:http://www.startup-review.com/blog/how-to-work-with-imperfect-timing-%e2%80%93-an-elance-example.php. We welcome this adaptation of his popular case study for Found|READ._ YouTube’s success is an example of what happens when entrepreneurs stumble on the right idea at just the right time, but I suspect that most companies miss … Read More »
First Germany, now Portugal – looks like Vodafone, world’s largest mobile company is pretty serious about becoming a broadband player as well. The company has launched an ADSL 2+ service in Portugal, called Vodafone Casa Duplex ADSL. Interestingly, the company offers those who … Read More »
Update: LinkedIn is heading towards an IPO, hires ex-TiVo CFO as its CFO. Different strokes for different social networking folks… while Facebook and LinkedIn are going the API route, trying to become platforms for others to build applications, Xing, a Hamburg, Germany-based business social … Read More »
SageTV, an Inglewood, CA-based software company, is introducing an updated version (6.2) of its SageTV Media Center for Mac sometime today. The software turns Mac computers into a personal video recorder, and allows easy sharing of music and photos. SageTV till recently had been … Read More »
Let it sing Let it die …. Maintain a little (take the cynical saint to the stake and burn it) …. Its radio radio silence silence.… Harvey Danger, Radio Silence. The Internet community is protesting the radio royalty charge increases that threatens many small webcasters by going … Read More »
I must hand it to the team at Google Finance – they are trying their best to make me switch from Yahoo Finance to their service. They keep adding new, interesting features that should make me switch. Today they announced that you can “receive stock … Read More »
The trials and tribulations of the Yahoo executive suite have been well chronicled in the media off late: from the recent exit of their sales ace to Terry Semel being replaced by co-founder Jerry Yang, as the top man on the totem pole. The management shuffle … Read More »
* Sprint, in an attempt to create some buzz for its EVDO has come up with a viral video site, CureCD.com. Its an extended version of their SuperBowl Commercial. The site has some funny videos, but the problem with the site is that you … Read More »
So here’s the game-related stock conundrum of the day: last fiscal year, the Sony Corporation had revenue nearly nine times larger than Nintendo ($71 billion to 7.8 billion)– which isn’t surprising, since that includes all Sony’s many divisions (hardware, videogames, movies, … Read More »
After a well publicized but not immediately consummated first date at YouTube’s offices in San Bruno, Brandon Fletcher, who traveled across the country to try to get featured placement on the site, returned to his home of New York to release his online dating … Read More »
In school, when working on UI development and web applications, I focused greatly on users and how they would interact with the application to accomplish tasks as part of a larger workflow. One of the key things that we have to try to focus on when … Read More »
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