On 03.04.11, In Founder Conference, by Alain Raynaud
Tweet The Founder Conference is only two months away! And just like last year, it will be very interactive, with entrepreneurs like you and me having a chance on stage to receive feedback on their elevator pitch from Adeo Ressi of the Founder Institute, get coached on how to create buzz for their product by social [...]
On 03.02.11, In Silicon Valley, by Alain Raynaud
Tweet While cleaning up old files, I bumped into an invitation we had put together at the Power Conference in 2006: PA Semi was announcing to the world their first processor. And to demo it, they had chosen our hardware emulator box. They had rented a suite in a hotel near the conference. Silicon samples [...]
On 02.04.11, In Silicon Valley, by Alain Raynaud
Tweet This is an excerpt of a recent exchange between Matt Cutts and me on Hacker News: Me: frankly [Matt] lost a lot of credibility with me. One more manipulative corporate drone, one less genuine hacker. Matt Cutts: Sorry you felt that way; was there a part of the post that struck you as especially [...]
On 12.16.10, In Startups, by Alain Raynaud
Tweet Inventions are hard to come up with. If there was a method to find them, it would be patented. Many people have heard the story of how the Mac user interface was born: Steve Jobs toured Xerox PARC and was shown some basic window-based computer. It was a short demo. When he went home, [...]
On 12.08.10, In Startups, by Alain Raynaud
Tweet I was shocked by this thread on Hacker News yesterday: The startup I recently joined uses a lot of warez software and i’m really uncomfortable about it. I use eclipse which is open-source of course but I was given photoshop, illustrator, ms office, etc to install on my computer by the company which are [...]
Tweet My post on how to land a job at Google hit a nerve: 10,000 people read it in a day. I posted it on Hacker News, where it got reasonably popular, got picked up by Reddit, and for some reason became the most controversial item of the day — although it wasn’t meant to [...]
On 11.15.10, In Silicon Valley, by Alain Raynaud
Tweet Last week, I wrote about how to land a job at Google, and it attracted 9,000 readers in one day! So let’s talk about something else Google could fix: logins. How many steps does it take to login to my YouTube account? Just watch and cry along with me… 1. Go To YouTube.com Great, [...]
Tweet It’s been 11 years now that the obvious hit me: the best way to land a job is to do the job, not talk about it. It’s 2010 and that idea has not graduated to mainstream yet. So let’s be very specific: let’s assume your dream job is product manager at Google, working on [...]
On 10.28.10, In Co-Founders, by Alain Raynaud
Tweet I’m proud to announce tha the Co-Founders Meetup is expanding to Austin, Texas! I was tired of people saying “how come the co-founders meetup is only in Silicon Valley”. “We need one where I live.” Fine! If you live in Austin, just sign up on the Meetup website. Locally, Ricardo is graciously helping me [...]
On 10.15.10, In Co-Founders, by Alain Raynaud
Tweet I just responded to that question on Quora, and since many people ask me the same question during co-founders meetups, I might as well post my answer here once and for all. Q: I just met someone who looks like a potential co-founder for me. What should I ask to tell if he is [...]
