Category Archives: Build Your Own Web Application

Critical Thinking is Sexy or Do What Works

By Brent | Published: March 18, 2010
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 [...]
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Build Your Own Web Application: Patience

By Brent | Published: February 19, 2010
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

By Brent | Published: February 8, 2010
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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Build Your Own Web Application: Education

By Brent | Published: February 2, 2010
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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