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Lessons from the field on API strategy, design, governance and AI integration.
Making Your Startup Stand Out In a Sea of Competition
My company, Blue Jazz Consulting, recently launched a new startup called aLawPractice.com. The goal is to reduce the headaches of managing an legal practice while making it simp...
Seth Godin says “Don’t Be a Cog”
Seth Godin recently wrote a guest post for Pamela Slim’s Escape From Cubicle Nation blog. In it, Seth had some great things to say about doing what you think is right inst...
Scalable Background Job Processing With Ruby on Rails and Skynet
On a recent project, I needed to be able to run a large number of background jobs. Each job would likely last between 30 seconds and 5 minutes, depending on the amount of work i...
Geofencing with Ruby on Rails and MySQL
I recently launched a startup that required geofencing. For those not familiar with the term, geofencing is the finding of known locations within a specific area around a centra...
Markup Factory Interview
Nathan at Godbit has an interview with Markup Factory, a hosted CMS, which supports valid user generated HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Markup Factory offers a rich feature set incl...
Featured Site: eBooks Just Published
Mark Gladding discovered there’s a lot of great eBooks being published all the time by independent authors. Unfortunately they’re not always that easy to find. Doing a search fo...
Eric Ries on Staying Focused
Eric Ries, author of the Lessons Learned blog and founder of IMVU, recently wrote a post about his 10 year anniversary as an entrepreneur: One thing really stands out to me toda...
Setting Your Idea Free
Seth Godin, Malcolm Gladwell, and Chris Anderson have been talking quite a bit about “free” and what it means. Chris contends that anything that is strictly made of ...
Bootstrap Whenever You Can
Many startups immediately focus on obtaining large-scale investors. The focus is so intense, that many make the investors more important than the customers. Not only does this l...
One Step At A Time
Seth Godin posted a great article called “Circling the big domino” where he makes an argument for working the events in order to get your brand known: Envision the e...
You Get What You Give
When it comes to launching your idea, many business owners have to seek out assistance. Whether it is assistance with software development, marketing, or accounting, you will ev...
Turning Your (Part Time) Idea Into Reality
Thomas at The Messy Notebook posted an article on building something real in your spare time. This is a great list for those trying to launch any kind of idea, either full-time ...