January 2012
8 posts
Introducing: Hackers & Hustlers Jobs
We all know that hiring is hard. At Olark, we spent months trying to find the right people. For bigger companies this is a problem, but for a startup it’s a matter of life and death. So every startup I know is desperately looking for a better way to find their next hire.
If you’re in the YC network, you’ll attest to the immense value added by the YC jobs board on Hacker News. HN...
“The crucible is for silver and the furnace for gold, and man is tested by the...”
– Proverbs 27:21, and one of my favorite quotes ever.
The 3 Classes of Hacker-Designers
You hear an awful lot of praise for designers who code these days. But you don’t hear much about why it’s good for a designer to be able to code. In my mind, there are a few separate levels of hacker-designers. Each has it’s own unique benefits. So I thought it would be a good idea to separate out what I think are the three classes of hacker-designers:
1. Designers that can code...
“It’s what comes next that is so much more interesting - the point between taking...”
– Andy Weissman
Between Thought and Expression Lies A Lifetime
(via fred-wilson)
An Analogy To Explain Why Ideas Are Worthless
Ideas for web/mobile apps are like ideas for paintings.
I could pitch the idea of painting a woman with a half smile and no one would care. At best they’d be interested to see how it turned out. But no one would decide whether or not the painting was good or bad before it was actually done.
The hard part about building a good app lies in the brush work, the emotion, the proportions, the...
Hackers & Hustlers: 1 Year Later
About a year and a half ago I got invited to an event in Ann Arbor called the “A2 New Tech Meetup”, and I was really nervous. I drove from MSU to Ann Arbor by myself, walked into a room full of smart, unfamiliar faces, and sat down in the front row next to a guy who introduced himself as Jeff Epstein. He was there to pitch his startup, Zferral. The lights dimmed and a guy with a...