A tried and true method for discovering someone’s email address is to take their first name and last name, such as “Luke Skywalker”, their domain, such as “disney.com”, and mix them in commonly used ways, such as “lskywalker@disney.com”. But doing this over and over again across all possible combinations is […]
Big Bang Disruption, an article recently in the Harvard Business Review, builds upon Everett Rogers classic customer adoption model and Geoffrey Moore’s “Crossing the Chasm”. Specifically, the previous model looks like this: And the new model looks like this: The authors describe three devastating features of big bang disrupters: Unencumbered Development As […]
Brad Garlinghouse is C.E.O. at YouSendIt and, in this nice New York Times piece on leadership, shares the three core company values around which he is rallying the company: Be in, be real, and be bold. Be In Life is too short not to do what you’re doing with passion. […]
Automattic, the company that owns and develops WordPress, is a fully distributed company with a team of hundreds where everyone works remotely. Matt Mullenweg, the founder of WordPress, shares the three indispensable tools they use to coordinate with each other: 1. Skype: one to one in text chats 2. Google Hangouts: […]
Over 100,000 people responded to Codecademy‘s New Year resolution to learn to code as as reported in TechCrunch. Here are some thoughts having just finished the first lesson, “Getting Started with Programming”. The lessons are in Javascript, undoubtedly choosen because of the ease of executing the code in the browser […]
