This is Part 3 of the series: 5 lessons from 150 startup pitches .
Of hundreds of startup pitches at Capital Factory , almost none had unearthed 10 people willing to say, "If you build this product, I'll give you $X."
Meditate on this: Hundreds of people ready to quit their day jobs, burn up savings, risk personal reputation, toil 70 hours per week, absorb as much stress as havin...
Pressure, the good kind, is continuing to build up. We are being named, listed, and watched.
Just a month ago, Mendeley was named as the start-up most likely to change the world for the better at The Guardian Activate 2010 Summit . What better encouragement could there be, we thought. We jumped up and down, patted each other on the back, took a deep breath, then went back to work so that ...
When we first introduced our plans for Internet Explorer Platform Previews we said that “developers and people interested in standards and web development can try out new platform functionality and provide early feedback.” We are now getting such feedback on a daily basis and are using it to improve IE9. However, sometimes the impact of the feedback extends beyond just IE9. Here is the story o...
For several years, Denise Carlevato has studied millions of mouse clicks and keystrokes made by anonymous computer users from all over the world. Her objective: to make Microsoft Office better fit the way millions of people work.
“We were making many decisions based on … what customers wanted us to do.” –Microsoft VP P.J. Hough
Months before Microsoft rolled out the latest version of its produ...
Finding the Frame , a website dedicated to giving feedback to newspaper multimedia producers and video journalists has launched.
My post in Mastering Multimedia last month, “Video at newspapers needs to improve,” resonated with many people. I received lots emails from producers who vented their frustration at not being able to get feedback on their multimedia stories.
After a brainstorming...
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Max/MSP Live Coding
A realtime performance of creating a Max-patch, starting from zero.
The Rules:
You have 6 minutes to build a Max-patch and do a performance with it.
Start with an empty patch.
Only use the standard objects that are part of Max/MSP/Jitter.
Don’t use externals, pre-build external datafiles, help files, or anything of th...
Out of no where, it dawned on me that I could use Get Satisfaction on damondnollan.com . I don't remember what I was doing or reading when the idea hit me, but I think it is an excellent way to keep in touch with my readers. In fact, we at North Carolina Central University have been using the service for over a year.
What Is Get Satisfaction?
In a nutshell, Get Satisfaction is a too...
Sometimes you gotta love just staying quiet for a week-end and having your mind on Sunday… Havin been off for any kind of brain damaging party for more than a week, I decided this morning I’d try something that was on my mind for quite a while related to feedback. I love feedback, it’s a really nice way to bring lively timbres in the background or do completely new sounds from scratch.
Being fed...
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“The name of this white wine, Turonet (“hill” in Catalan) refers to the physical space where the cellar is at the Mas Can Colomé Estate. The label design has been thought to be tagged and numbered by hand to transmit the values of craftsmanship associated with this small family winery. We have replaced the cap with an original pin and added a seal as a sym...
This round goes to you, Zak McFlimby. [ b3ta via Boing Boing Gadgets ]
With the release of Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jacalope, Canonical has made a great distro which finally supports netbooks. The Ubuntu Netbook Remix is Ubuntu with the Netbook Remix interface installed which also Easy Peasy uses. But just as we’ve made the linux kernel and Easy Peasy as a whole, a thourowly optimized operating system for netbooks, we want to take the netbook interface one step further.
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