Tweet I have lived through Silicon Valley’s 1999 bubble and its recovery in 2005-2008. Now it’s 2011 and for the third time, I can see the sign that Silicon Valley is booming again. And when I say “sign”, I mean it literally. This is what Silicon Valley looks like at the moment:   Those signs [...]

Tweet I’m posting the videos of the Founder Conference here on my blog until we revamp the Founder Conference website… By the way, if you want to be the first one to know about the next Founder Conference, there is a sign-up form on the right. Should you join an incubator such as Y-Combinator, the [...]

Tweet Yesterday night at the Microsoft campus was a great edition of the Founder Showcase. The evening started with a tell-all keynote on freemium business models from Phil Libin, the founder of Evernote. He candidly shared information that is usually impossible to get, such as how many users convert to paying customers or how much [...]

Tweet If you are like 99% of software developers with a great idea, you don’t live next to Google headquarters in Mountain View or drive by Facebook’s offices in Palo Alto on your daily commute. But Silicon Valley still rules the world of Internet startups, so you should probably check it out. Don’t expect to [...]