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The Lean Portfolio
In previous posts I discussed why serial entrepreneurs should upgrade to parallelism , and how startup founders might band together to create a startup cooperative . It is…
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The Lean Reality Check
This isn’t a critique of the Lean Startup . I don’t have the guts to do that. No, this is just an attempt to put the Lean Startup…
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Incubate or Accelerate?
I once found myself standing upon a small wooden platform at a great height above the ground, willing myself to trust the harness I was attached to, and…
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The Startup Cooperative
In my last post I talked about our new approach to developing startup ideas: doing lots of them in parallel. It was my most visited article to date,…
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The Parallel Entrepreneur
My first shot at business was early in college, making simple websites for small companies. It was the first step on a career of company creation. Many years…
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Taking Software Seriously
I often find myself struggling to communicate to non-geeks just how complicated software engineering is, probably because there's no familiar lines of work that are any way comparable.…
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The Dangers of Excessive Effectiveness
My last post, on effectiveness and efficiency via the technology of Transformers , was sufficiently well received that I thought I should offer up a sequel, in way…
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The Energon Methodology
Several years ago, during DemonWare's initial growth spurt, I was a very stressed out guy. I had difficulty keeping track of the company's commitments, of meetings, conference calls,…
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Front Square in the Irish Times
Our new startup, Front Square, was covered in the Irish Times today. The first of many articles, we hope :-)
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Games Development and R&D
This week, I'm joining a group of representatives from the Irish games industry in a meeting with government policy advisors, to help establish whether or not games development…
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Startup Capital in Ireland
I've been both planning and procrastinating this article for months. With Ireland teetering on the brink of default, there's still plenty of optimism in the tech sector, with…
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"Silicon Liffey"
This shared Google Map has been making its way through the tech entrepreneurial community in Dublin the last few weeks. I initially suspected Paul Hayes was behind it,…
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The secret history of Eurovision
Last night the Eurovision Song Contest made its yearly onslaught on our ears, with Twitter and Facebook providing up-to-date information about the questionable tastes of friends and old…
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Disappearing Desktops
It occurred to me recently how terrible it must be to be Microsoft (a common thought). I realized that the Windows user experience is essentially unchanged since I…
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Enterprise and Optimism
A few weeks back someone told me to watch George Lee's business show, in which our intrepid economist ventured to Silicon Valley to find out what the magic…
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Flash Weirdness of the Day II
Hit a brand new FlashWoD today! This took me a while to track down, mainly because I couldn't actually believe that it could possibly be true. In Actionscript…
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Logging Unhandled Exceptions in Actionscript
When an error occurs in your flash application, and is not handled, the Flash runtime will cross its fingers, ignore it, and try to struggle on. Unfortunately, an…
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Cherokee-admin tunnel script
Cherokee is now my favorite web server, having all the performance of Nginx, but designed for usability. The addition of the market feature has made it possible to…
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Flash Weirdness of the Day (FlashWoD)
I spent some significant time trying to hunt down a bug (or maybe heisenbug), on and off for the last week. Thought I'd nailed it last night, but…
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Multiple asynchronous event handling with Flexunit
I had to write this down somewhere, now I've got it figured out. I've been banging my head against the screen for the last day and a half…
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Python Memoize with Expiry
To any readers that may exist: sorry for my silence. I've been incredibly absorbed with Front Square (our new company), and the three major projects that have splashed…
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Exciting New Company
Straight back from eastern Europe, I got down to work with Brian McDonnell on our new company, which has a name that is secret for the moment. It's…
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Network Attached Storage Problems
My last post was all about how happy I was with my new DNS-323 NAS. Well, it's not uncommon for the little problems to only become apparent after…
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Network Attached Storage
About a month ago, I decided that the time had come to figure out a proper solution to the growing amount of media that I want to have…
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Archiving Email
I still have every email I've ever sent or received, since 1996. For me, it represents the best written account of my adult life, since I've never been…
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