Where the deer and the antelopes play….
(new follow cabinporn ! they are a reader submitted place of solitude tumblr! - <3 )
Northern Romania. Photo by Laurent Comps, submitted by Mahila Gauthier-Dupont.
As the list of *-as-a-service’s continues to grow, I thought I’d throw one into the mix. What about the idea of a backend-as-a-service (BaaS)?
The recent surge of client side Javascript frameworks along with the attractiveness of simple RESTful APIs has created an environment where server-side…
Just build something that you’d want to use today, not something you think people could use somehow.
- Paul Graham
Bob’s lessons on being a successful innovator (man definitely has authority on this topic).
1) Ignore conventional wisdom: Conventional wisdom is what keeps status quo. It’s the job of the innovator’s to defy it.
2) Listen to dissenters: This is going to be how you will get to the right answer. JFK said that he was going to send someone to the moon. The dissenters were quite vocal. They used the dissenting voice to write the roadmap and eventually sent someone to the moon.
3) Tolerate and expect mistakes: Make decisions quickly. Mistakes are by-products of innovation. Collect just enough information - the longer you study something, the worse your decisions will be. Keep trying options until something works.
4) Convenience always wins: A product or service that’s 1-step more convenient than the closest competitor will win. Be the first-mover and create a strong brand around it.
5) Self-doubters make good business people: Don’t fall in love with your ideas. Always question yourself.
1) Ignore conventional wisdom: Conventional wisdom is what keeps status quo. It’s the job of the innovator’s to defy it.
2) Listen to dissenters: This is going to be how you will get to the right answer. JFK said that he was going to send someone to the moon. The dissenters were quite vocal. They used the dissenting voice to write the roadmap and eventually sent someone to the moon.
3) Tolerate and expect mistakes: Make decisions quickly. Mistakes are by-products of innovation. Collect just enough information - the longer you study something, the worse your decisions will be. Keep trying options until something works.
4) Convenience always wins: A product or service that’s 1-step more convenient than the closest competitor will win. Be the first-mover and create a strong brand around it.
5) Self-doubters make good business people: Don’t fall in love with your ideas. Always question yourself.
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Agree with most of this but not the part that convenience always wins. When an idea/business successfully sells what they believe (vs. simply what they do) and people buy into it, they’ll pay a premium or suffer an inconvenience for that product/service. Why do people stand outside an Apple store for hours just to get the new iPhone? Doing so supports their ability to tell the world who they are and what they believe. If the overarching purpose of a company/product is convenience, then yes, I agree with tapping into that. I’m not convinced that’s the case for most companies though… (via heyamberrae) |
