Recently I have gone bonkers with photography. What I mean by recently is the last couple of weeks. I have been bonkers about photography for a very long time. The last two week however, have been extra bonkers. I have a Nikon D80 that I bought about a year ago. This year I gave myself [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Thoughts’
December 9, 2007
The March To Profitability
What makes a startup successful?
Getting to profitability and keeping it there.
At least that is my opinion. But why is it so important to get to profitability?
It gives you choices.
Basically, you can decide what to do and how to do it without having to worry about survivability. And if you have a Board of Directors, it [...]
November 11, 2007
The Power Of Estimating A Project Specially On A Startup
Startups are interesting “beasts”. I should know, I have a few under my belt. I worked on my own startups, for which I had a hard time funding thus they never really went anywhere, and since I was the only source of investment, not only did they not go anywhere, but I was taken along [...]
November 3, 2007
Real Estate Is Going The Way Of The Internet
I am a lucky man. There are many reasons I am a lucky man: my wife, my kids and my friends. I do not have (or want) many friends, but the ones I have are the best. One of them I have known for 30 years (he will argue that it is 29 years, but [...]
October 28, 2007
Three Guys In A Garage Creating The New Hype
Recently there was a post in TechCrunch regarding Facebook’s hype. One comment to the post was that Facebook was already passe and “the new hype was being already developed by three guys in somebody’s garage”.
I recently wrote an post regarding Innovation In Technology and the process of creating new technologies; from the need to solve [...]
October 28, 2007
To Blog Or Not To Blog
A few months ago I started to blog. This is my second go at it and it is going far better. The first time around the focus was on personal thoughts and, in a way, documenting some of the things that were going on in my life, good and bad. I have to admit that [...]
October 20, 2007
Building Scalable Web Systems
Over the years I have either participated and/or was the main person in architecting large scalable web based solutions. In many cases I also built them, but in the last few years, I have directed the implementation and execution. There has always been a common thread to all of these build-outs:
”If you are talking about [...]
September 30, 2007
Innovation In Technology
How does innovation happen? Not just in technology, but in general. I think that the question can be answered easily with the next three statements:
Necessity is the mother of all inventions. We create it because there is a need.
Build a better mouse trap. Paraphrasing Einstein: “I stand on the shoulders of giants”
This is such a [...]
September 26, 2007
I Do Not Get Facebook
A few weeks ago I was playing with Facebook and I did not get it. I wrote the template for this post and called it “I Do Not Get Facebook”, because I truly did not get it and was not impressed with what they have done … what was the hoopla all about? But now [...]
