Monthly Archives: February 2010

Restraining Chaos

Do and Dont are strong words. DoDont is built upon their strength.  They force you to make a decision.  They compel you to think.  Do and Dont are constraints. Frank Loyd Wright built Falling Water on top of a rock.  He was commissioned to build a country house for summer getaways.  The client had hundreds [...]
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Build Your Own Web Application: Patience

Patience is a funny thing. Preaching about its virtues when it comes to building an application is odd. As the main person behind a product, you have to be constantly moving and pushing things forward, if just a little, everyday. You need that primal drive to get your product to market. Internal maniacal motivation is [...]
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Lean Startup Theories Within Ultra-Bootstrapped Realities

The Lean Startup, as evangelized by Eric Ries, Dave McClure, Dave Cancel et all, is a great way to go about building an Internet product.  We’ve embraced many of these practices at DoDont (@dodont) including the concept of building a Minimum Viable Product (MVP). Summarized, you build a product/application that has very few features, but [...]
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DoDont Starts The Conversation (With Crazies)

DoDont starts the conversation. In order to prove this thesis let me show you a few DoDont posts and see what happens. Do: feed the pigeons in the street excessive amounts of fizz candy.  That way they will explode in the air, creating horrible beauty. Dont: touch the electrical fence with the plug of a waffle maker in [...]
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Build Your Own Web Application: Education

This is part of a short series I’m putting together about building your own web application/product.  This is for the average person who gets an idea, and then wants/needs to act on it.   Mark Suster has an great series on his blog about what he looks for, from a VC’s perspective, in an entrepreneur.  I [...]
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