Drone is a self-service Continuous Delivery platform for busy development teams
CURRENTLY UNMAINTAINED. Authority helps you authorize actions in your Rails app. It's ORM-neutral and has very little fancy syntax; just group your models under one or more Authorizer cla...
Very interesting lessons about getting to viral
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Can one federal judge put a stop to the dumb smartphone patent battles?
Launching a new enterprise—whether it’s a tech start-up, a small business, or an initiative within a large corporation—has always been a hit-or-miss proposition. According to the decades-old formula, you write a business plan, pitch it to investors, assemble a team, introduce a product, and start selling as hard as you can. And somewhere in this […]
Supposed to be great for people who sit at the computer all day long.
Can one federal judge put a stop to the dumb smartphone patent battles?
But despite the financial worries, Stace-Naughton — lie the rest of the Start-Up Class of 2013 — doesn’t lack for confidence. “It’s going to work out,” she says. “Entrepreneurship is kind of a personality and a lifestyle, more than a career. You just have to be willing to make it work.”
Finding a job is so 20th century. That is why young people today need to be more “innovation ready” than “college ready.”
I recently got a phone call from an entrepreneur whom I respect and who runs a company that I hope will do great things one day. He had pitched me in the past and I told him that for a variety of…
Behind the mysterious world of data brokers, who have access to a lot more of your life than you think.
A few pioneering companies are starting to experiment with abandoning these rigid old governing structures in favor of more dynamic ones that foster increased individual creativity, autonomy and flexibility among team members, while also helping companies to more quickly and effectively adapt to changes in the external environment.
Perhaps the greatest factor that determines whether or not an entrepreneur will be successful isn't the business idea itself, but rather the entrepreneur's willingness to try (and keep trying) to turn the idea into reality. Great ideas are abundant, but it's what we decide to do with them that counts.
The concept is to focus less than recruiters might on traditional talent markers — a degree from M.I.T., a previous job at Google, a recommendation from a friend or colleague — and more on simple notions: How well does the person perform? What can the person do? And can it be quantified?
But I digress: objects > functions. At least in the context of getting stuff done in Ruby. This pretty much applies to most of the rest of the points in this post, so just keep that in the back of your brain.