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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
