Articles like this one, while incredibly well-written and witty, make the classic mistake of assuming (or implying) most apps will ever need to remotely scale to hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of requests a day (where Twitter currently stands).
Update: Terry Chay responds to this article here. I wasn’t 100% clear on the […]
Archive for May, 2007
Get Over Yourself: Your App Is Not Going to Be the Next Twitter
Published May 26th, 2007 in Entrepreneurship, PHP, Ruby on Rails and Web Apps. 3 CommentsThe Bubble Is Back: “Naturally Curly Raises $600,000 in Funding”
Published May 26th, 2007 in Bubble Redux and Industry News. 0 CommentsYes, you heard that right. Mashable:
Naturally Curly, the online community for people with curly hair founded in 1998, has raised $600,000 in a round of funding led by James Treybig, founder of Tandem Computers, a computer manufacturer which was bought by Compaq in 1997.
Who knew a site devoted entirely to curly hair even existed, […]
The Top 10 Highest-Value Uses of Your Time
Published May 23rd, 2007 in Getting Things Done. 1 CommentReprinted below is a list of the top ten highest-value uses of your time, according to Richard Koch, author of The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Success by Achieving More with Less.
This list is great — especially for web geeks, entrepreneurs and managers!
Things that advance your overall purpose in life
Things you have always wanted to […]
Reprinted below is a list of the top ten most low-value uses of time, according to Richard Koch, author of The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Success by Achieving More with Less.
Things other people want you to do
Things that have always been done this way
Things you’re not unusually good at doing
Things you don’t enjoy doing
Things […]
New blog up: YARB - Yet Another Rails Blog
We’ll be blogging three of our favorite things over there just in time for RailsConf:
Ruby, Rails and Lolcats!
Will Your Web 2.0 Company Make You Rich?
Published May 15th, 2007 in Entrepreneurship and Financial Freedom. 2 CommentsThe internets are abuzz with all the latest Web 2.0 companies and startup news.
Many Web 2.0 company founders (and some of those companies’ early employees) have become incredibly wealthy in a very short period of time, most recently and notably the YouTube guys.
Clearly, the founders of Flickr, del.icio.us, Weblogs Inc, etc have earned at least […]
Valleywag Misses the Mark on Y Combinator
Published May 15th, 2007 in Entrepreneurship and Industry News. 0 CommentsThe usually spot-on Valleywag misses the mark on Y Combinator. You’ve got to love the snarkiness of the wag, but I think they’re being a little harsh here.
The Ultimate Flip
Let’s not forget, most every company is built to flip in one sense or another. What did Google do with its IPO? They […]
How to Be a Millionaire, the “Easy” Way
Published May 14th, 2007 in How to be a Millionaire. 0 CommentsSocialists in this country love to claim that the rich are always getting richer, the poor are getting poorer, and there is little hope or chance of social mobility.
If this is true, how come:
70% of the nation’s big family fortunes are less than 13 years old, according to research and marketing firm The Harrison Group.
Source: […]
Review: The 4-Hour Work Week
Published May 12th, 2007 in Book Reviews and Financial Freedom. 0 CommentsTimothy Ferris burst onto the scene recently with The 4-Hour Work Week.
The book has a rah-rah vibe throughout, and is definitely inspiring and informative.
What I came away from it thinking though, was that the essential key to all of this is getting the passive income flowing in the first place.
While Timothy makes it sound like […]
