Trent Reznor Interview
May
30
An interview with Trent Reznor and his outlook on the music industry:
TechCrunch Interview With Digg’s Kevin Rose
May
28
A great video on the Diggs co-founder Kevin Rose, a look into a successful startup company:
Learning from StackOverflow.com
May
28
A website that I use all of the time for technical information is StackOverflow.com, here is a video on what that website does and how they can help out technically:
Health Insurance
May
21
Here is some great information provided by CNCB on health insurance from the show On the Money.
- 48 million Americans under the age of 65 lack health insurance.
- 1/3 of Americans spend part of year 2007 without health insurance.
- The last decade for premium employer sponsored health insurance rose 4x times as fast as our income.
Just as a side note, there is a company that does health insurance rating, the company is called A.M. Best. Check out the A.M. Best website if you are looking for health insurance ratings.
Pitching to Angel Investors and Venture Capitalists
May
21
1)
Tell a Story
(e.g:iPad+doctors)
(You have 10 seconds to get their emotional attention)
2)
Talk about product.
(e.g.:iPad product)
3)
Talk about how we are going to generate revenue.
4)
Your needs
e.g.:
2-3 biz dev people
Higher a PR agency
Bring on developers
5)
Money and how much you are asking for and the time.
6)
Exits for investors and us.
Taken from David Rose:
VC Pitches is about investing in the PEOPLE!
Angel pitches are ~15 minutes or under
VC pitches are less then 30 minutes
-1) You must show integrity
-2) You must show passion
Just some side notes, never say the following words to investors, they invalidate previous things you mentioned!:
- Honestly
- Truthfully
- To be Frank
- Frankly
- Not for nothing
- Realistic
- Kind of
Join the Army of Entrepreneurs
May
21
In his commencement address to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign last Sunday, Kauffman Foundation President and CEO Carl Schramm told students,
“We need an army of the smartest, most passionate young people to try their hand at building a business-people who will take their heads and their hearts into the market, founding companies that will bring forth new products and services that will help humankind.”
Website Development Tools
May
21
Domain Name Generator
www.nxdom.com
hwww.name.com
Take the Domain Name
instantdomainsearch.com
Always test your site in many browsers, so go with crossbrowsertesting.com.
Always find a good team that you can work with for coverting PSD files and indesign files to html, css and javascript, here is a good one that I know of call xhtmlized.
Another firm is http://xhtmlweaver.com, I have never used them.
Site Design:
- zurb.com, a bit more expensive but they’ve worked with tons of startups.
- electricpulp
- A ton more web design firms
- CrowdSpring, personally I have never used them.
- 99designs.com.
Some design firms I haven’t tested out:
This is a great place to find stock photos for you sites
MS Windows editors:
- Notepad++, some tips can be found here.
Online resources:
- gomockingbird, one of the best wireframe tools ever.
- CSS Cleanup Tool
- HTML Cleanup Tool
- Blueprint CSS Framework (e.g. Example)
Firefox development plugins:
- Add N Edit Cookies
- DNSStuff Toolbar
- Netcraft Toolbar
- EditCSS
- Firebug
- Html Validator
- LinkChecker
- Server Switcher
- Total Validator
- View Cookies
- Web Developer
- YSlow
- IE Tab
- Page Speed from Google
- HttpFox, to view GET and POST data from HTTP requests
- Fiddler, to view GET and POST data from HTTP requests
Google Chrome plugins:
SEO Tools:
Certificate Verification:
Color palattes. Create a good one
avivadirectory
colourlovers
colorcombos
www.degraeve.com/color-palette/
Charting
protovis
Windows Antivirus Protection
May
21
Avast! antivirus is free software that I recommend for home use computers. It is great and protects you for free on a windows machine, you can’t beat that!
A few people asked me how to schedule a boot scan before letting window start.
To schedule boot scan using Avast, follow the steps below:
- Right click on the Avast system tray icon
- Click on “Start Avast Anti Virus”
- Avast anti virus window will pop up and run a memory scan
- Once memory scan finish, you can right click on the Avast anti virus window and select “Schedule Boot Time Scan”
- “Schedule Boot Time Scan” window will popup, select “Scan all local disk” and check on “Advanced Options” and you can go from there
…hope this helps
I’ll be updating this post from time to time.
Keynote from Web 2.0 Expo
May
20
Gary Vaynerchuk presented a great keynote at the Web 2.0 Expo in NYC September 2008: