Jul 06
My friend and colleague Theo Nguyen-Cao posted on his blog about considering graduate school. He inspired me to dig up some reflections on my B-School experience and my startup lifestyle.
I’ve learned a few things working on startups while going to B-School. Here’s just one:
Creation of value means more than selling more
Delivering value to shareholders is often cited as a business objective. Certainly that is a component of what value creation entails, but there’s more to it. There are elements of value creation that include building better products for customers, aligning organizational and social objectives, and reducing impacts to other parties.
Jul 01
Dr Nic is a seriously productive badass. I can’t manage to keep up with all of his github projects. I read his blog: frankly, he doesn’t post all that often. But it seems like he’s got a new github project every couple of days.
Seriously, I’m not sure how the guy cranks it all out. These are **not** piddly little projects. One day, he’ll publish a new framework. Then he’ll fork something trivial like….oh…I dunno…Merb. And fix a ton of bugs. Then he’ll publish a handful of TextMate bundles that he developed while working on the framework. Then he’ll decide he wants to publish a few snippets and out comes PastiePacker.
Check out a few of his projects. Most of them are small, focused, and very useful. They’re good stuff. My current fave is the iPhone Ruby project.
It’s teh chown.
