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Critical Thinking is Sexy or Do What Works
The amount of information available for the budding tech entrepreneur is pure awesome. A critic would call it information overload. I disagree. It first can seem overwhelming, but once you find the right people to follow and read the right blogs, you’ll have your finger on the pulse of the tech scene. Sure, there is [...]
Posted in Build Your Own Web Application Tagged Apple, Critical Thinking, Google, Human Condition, Liberal Arts, Paypal, Startup, Web Application, You Tube Comments closed
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 [...]
Posted in Light Stuff Tagged Alice Munro, Architecture, Creativity, Do, DoDont, Dont, Falling Water, Frank Loyd Wright, Google, Nike, Short Story Comments closed
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 [...]
Posted in Build Your Own Web Application Tagged Education, Lean Startup, Patience, Startup, Ultra-Bootstrapped, VC, Web Application Comments closed
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 [...]
Posted in Build Your Own Web Application Tagged DoDont, Eric Ries, Facebook, Lean Startup, Minimum Viable Product, Ultra-Bootstrapped, Web Application Comments closed
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 [...]
Posted in Light Stuff Tagged Conversation, Crazies, Creativity, DoDont, Electrical Fences, Fizz Candy, Pigeons, Posts, Waffels Comments closed
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 [...]
Posted in Build Your Own Web Application Tagged Blogs, Education, Google Reader, RSS, Tech, Twitter, VC, Web Application Comments closed
And So It Begins
Hi All,
Welcome to the DoDont blog.
What’s our thinking behind DoDont? We want to be the place where you alert your friends to useful information and, in turn, where you will be able to find useful information from your friends whenever you need it.
Why Do and Dont? This way all the clutter in between is ignored; [...]
Posted in Welcome Tagged Eric Ries, Facebook, Flickr, Lean Startup, Minimum Viable Product, Welcome, You Tube Comments closed
DoDont: A New Social Network; Bring On The Snarky Comments