Foundation 16 // Kevin Systrom (by kevinrose)
Kevin Rose’s interview series Foundation is really inspiring for aspiring entrepreneurs. This interview with Kevin Systrom, Co-Founder of Instagram, a photo sharing service for iOS, shows how a small team of engineers can have a huge impact. In Instagram’s case that’s 15 million users with less than 10 full-time employees within a year. For further reading check out this great piece by Gizmodo - Inside Instagram: How Slowing Its Roll Put the Little Startup in the Fast Lane.
10 steps to better blogging
Here are Dan Frommer’s ten steps to better blogging. There is a lot of great advice that I will try to incorporate going forward, starting with:
Write the site that you want to read.
What I Learned Building the Apple Store
Former VP for retail at Apple gives some insight into the success of the Apple Stores. Reinvent the store.
Daring Fireball: Getting Steve Jobs Wrong
I really love John Gruber’s blog Daring Fireball; I even bought a shirt today.
A few weeks ago I posted a link to Malcolm Gladwell’s New Yorker piece describing Steve Jobs as a tweaker and had the following to say:
This is a great article on Steve Jobs as a “tweaker,” rather than a traditional inventor. Malcolm Gladwell waited a few weeks to put this out and had the benefit of Walter Isaacson’s biography at his disposal. Great read.
Mr. Gruber doesn’t agree with me.
FrankieWarren.com
Check it out! We wanted to make an online resume that would give people of snapshot of my work experience and interests. Jeff nailed it.
Source: jeniusJust launched a personal site I made for my good friend Frankie. I used this site as an example in the class series I teach as well!
iPad and iPhone Application Development
This is a free course offered by Stanford on building applications using the iPhone SDK. I might give it a try after I finish the CS106A course on Java. These classes take a fair amount of discipline to complete, but are a great resource for those who choose to take advantage of them.
Steve Jobs’s Real Genius
This is a great article on Steve Jobs as a “tweaker,” rather than a traditional inventor. Malcolm Gladwell waited a few weeks to put this out and had the benefit of Walter Isaacson’s biography at his disposal. Great read.
"Apple denies that its correct name is Apple, Inc. The correct name of Respondent is Apple Inc."
"The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks."
