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- The Pattern-Seeking Fallacy
- Taking “Fail Fast” to a whole… ‘nutha… level
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- Bending over: How to sell to large companies
- Tech Support *is* sales
- Solving the “marketplace” business model
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- Uncommon Interview: Howard Mann puts the fun back in business
- Accounting for Startups: Cash-basis or Accrual-basis?
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- Permission Follow-Up
- Maybe not so much with the “optimization”
- Avoiding common data-interpretation errors
- A butterfly flaps its wings and you make a sale
- The true meaning of common idioms
- Employed with a side of startup
- Startup Fitness
- An Experiment with Guest Posts
- Pick one and own it
- CapitalFactory: Your startup gets $20k cash + 20 mentors for a summer
- Enough with the “expert” guilt
- New moderators and flair on Answers OnStartups
- Sunk Costs: An invisible, pervasive peril
- Guest post round-up
- Rude Q&A
- A Tradeshow Checklist, born of experience
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- A tour of my WordPress plugins
- Uncommon Interview: Bob Walsh, Digital Entrepreneur
- Painful, Surreal, and Surprisingly Effective: The Personal Checklist
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- Don’t write a business plan
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- Really give thanks this time
- New empirical data for SEO and social media marketing strategies
- Hiring Employee #1
- Rich vs. King in the Real World: Why I sold my company
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- Why I switched to WordPress
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- Put down the compiler until you learn why they’re not buying
- Uncommon Interview: Balsamiq Studios
- If Kindergarten were like Social Media Marketing
- You’re a little company, now act like one
- Business Advice Plagued by Survivor Bias
- 90-minute podcast on creative marketing
- Tips for increasing software conversions, parts 1 & 2
- Darwinian explanation and advice for “Going Viral”
- Why business blogs should focus on cheerleaders, not lead-generation
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- Sacrifice your health for your startup
- Letters to Joel Spolsky
- Too small to fail: How startups can grow in recessions
- Audio Interlude
- Starting a business isn’t as crazy and risky as they say
- Communicating Values: Show, don’t Tell
- The real reason we cried at Susan Boyle
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- Underbelly: What haughty startup bloggers don’t tell you
- How to get customers who love you even when you screw up
- Easy statistics for AdWords A/B testing, and hamsters
- How much of success is luck?
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- High-concept pitches are not your friend
- Act like your price just doubled
- Behind the scenes of a viral post: Why your startup shouldn’t copy 37signals or FogCreek
- Convert shortcomings into advantages without lying
- Differentiate yourself through honesty
- Starting up while employed: Admit it
- Joy of Honesty in Business: A 5-part Series
- Ignoring the Wisdom of Crowds
- Please Vote for A Smart Bear: 10 seconds of your time
- Get more blog links by offering fewer choices
- Distinguishing constructive criticism from bad business advice
- Your idea sucks, now go do it anyway
- Breaking the Rules
- Standing out from the noise
- Heatmaps from Clicks: How Crazyegg improved our website overnight
- Start a Business Now: 6 Reasons Why This Economy is Good for Startups
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- QA vs. QC
- Strong opinions, somewhat weakly held
- Squarespace – my new blogging platform
- Agile Marketing: The Movie
- The leading provider of meaningless marketing solutions
- Five ways to listen to customers instead of goin’ fishin’
- Voting early: What if there were no election day?
- Love the messenger
- 2000 feature requests: Our foray into Uservoice
- Is it OK to Sucks?
- Procrastinate for Success!
- Labels Matter
- Ideas for Swarm
- Giving it away
- Customers over Employees
- Peer code review interview at GeekAustin
- Joshua Bloch dripping with wisdom
- Software Quality Mortgage
- Avatar Marketing: Sell to Carol
- Wordle me this
- Hello, I’m 1074018628
- The customer is always right?
- Obfuscation
- The Benefits of Features
- Pecha Kucha
- Surprised to find bugs?
- Boiling waste and goo
- No hats!
- We’re on the same page
- Limiting Options
- Agile marketing interview at GeekAustin.org
- The Anti-Bullet Test
- Identity Crisis
- Caricatures
- Discount gambit
- Resumes considered harmful, or at least useless
- We called him Tortoise ’cause he taught us!
- We Won the Jolt Award!
- Using fear to discover what’s important
- Free for all
- Twenty words for hoax
- Tell me a story
- But I know that he knows that I know
- I’m gonna learn you good
- Tidbits from New Hampshire
- Google is not evil… right?
- Outside-In
- Microsoft isn’t scary anymore
- Jolt Finalist: Code Collaborator
- Not in the cards
- Choose your words
- I Will Survive
- How to be the most expensive product on the market
- How to build a checklist
- It’s not about in-scope/out-scope
- Software is NOT like 6-Sigma
- Bing! You’ve got Cash!
- December Dumbass
- 800lb Gorrillas Don’t Care
- Do the right thing
- I’ve got nothing
- Where have your fingers been?
- I am a tree
- Lead with your neck
- Who are you to deny my space?
- Yes, and 7 more things in my closet
- Interview with Dr. Dobbs
- Bears Again!
- You’re a real company when…
- Guy in a bear suit
- Talk at SD West on Peer Review Best Practices
- Selling to the Bottom & Coffee II
- Idiot! Buying SmartBear.com
- DiY Projects & Coffee
- Black Shirts
- Road Trip! Product Planning by Customers
- I thought XML-RPC was supposed to be easy
- Team-Building for the Cold, Dark, and Alone
- Journey to a Build
- Overlay Spam
- The Case for Peer Code Review
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