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, [...]
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 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 09.30.10, In Silicon Valley, by Alain Raynaud
Tweet Can I pay you to delay your tweets by say, 60 seconds? Why? Because some people will pay to read your tweets before everyone else. Sixty seconds is not long, but it’s the difference between free and millions of dollars of revenue. Here’s how it works. Imagine a new premium Twitter client. It costs [...]
On 06.07.10, In Startups, by Alain Raynaud
Tweet Last Thursday I attended Stanford Design EXPE, where a dozen teams of students present the result of their 9 months of innovative work in relation with a corporate sponsor. The twist is that all projects must build a hardware prototype (I guess because it’s linked to the Mechanical Engineering department). For me, it was [...]
On 10.27.09, In fairsoftware, by Alain Raynaud
Tweet When you just found a great idea for an app, the first step (after the initial excitement subsides) is to gather feedback from as many people as you can. That’s what we just made really simple now on FairSoftware with our new feedback widget. Once you setup your idea and enter a description, the [...]
On 03.05.09, In fairsoftware, by Alain Raynaud
Tweet Few people know that during the dot-com bubble, I tried to start a company about annotating the web, so that your friends could influence what you see. It makes sense to think that the web by itself is too large and needs to be personalized. So I got very interested when I saw Austin [...]
