Archive for July, 2012

Mentoring isn’t worthless after all!

I enjoy talking to young companies (or proto-companies) about their projects. I do that with a few incubators and the like, and I consistently find it rewarding. I find myself always trying to tweak people’s product vision a bit, looking for a way to turn a “business idea” into something that will have deeper, human [...]

Volunteer-powered product development?

Over the last few weeks, I’ve had the pleasure of working with the small-but-growing team that’s building the software offerings that are part of the Webmaker effort.  If you don’t know about Webmaker, you should — go check out the website, and Mark Surman’s blog for more details and an inside view about why Mozilla’s [...]

I _will_ blog more.

Twitter’s been great, but it’s very much robbed me of energy to blog, which is unfortunate.  In a possibly foolish attempt to use a public statement of intent to shape my own behavior, I’m hereby saying that I’m going to try and blog more, and likely tweet less.  Not sure how to make it happen [...]