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10 lessons I learned by taking the entrepreneurial Red Pill

The Next Web

It’s been slightly over two years since I attended Startup Weekend in September 2010, which literally changed my world for the better. Amazed at all the beautifully designed products that came out of only 76 hours. Back in 1994, when Jeff Bezos started Amazon, he had to raise money from 22(!) Would I take that red pill again?

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Rocks in the Rocket Science Lobby « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. We had moved our game development facilities from Berkeley and Palo Alto and consolidated into one building on Townsend Street in the “ South of Market &# neighborhood in San Francisco. Blog at WordPress.com.

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26 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

When I launched my social media consultancy in 2010, I knew I wanted to incorporate my name. 12- Designers signature. When my partner and I decided to start our design business in 2008, we weren’t sure what to name it. Design is such a metaskill — a mindset and process that can be applied to almost anything.

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Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces?

alexpoole.info

User experience design and research. Case study: Icon design. Back in 1998 when Times New Roman was still widely used on the web, my then boss made sure we always designed our web sites with Arial, as she hated the look of serif fonts on the web. Alex Poole. Site français. Skip to content. Deliverables. Applications.

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Cracking The Code: Software 2.0: How the use of internet is.

Cracking the Code

These changes fall into 6 main buckets: 1) Product Awareness: From Gartner to the blogosphere In 1994-95 - the great age of traditional Enterprise software, the only way to learn about a software application was to read the ad-hoc Gartner report or various esoteric software reviews. ► 2010. (5). Happy New Year 2010!