Hey guys. I’m Siqi, and I’m your guest blogger today. Alex Notov invited me to write a little about the Facebook platform. Since I have over zero users in the three weeks since I launched my own app, I am eminently qualified to pontificate on why you too need to have a Facebook app this […]

Ah, the beauty of trying to do Q&A over the internet for something that works over the internet.
Alex: Okay go to this url and do this.
Aaron: Didn’t work.
Alex: Try it now.
Aaron: Didn’t work.
Alex: Okay try it now.
Aaron: Didn’t work.
Alex: Umm… try it now.
Aaron: Didn’t work.
Alex: [insert […]

… getting the Startup Bug. It’s currently 1AM PST (as of the beginning of the writing of this post). It’s also about 30hrs till our self imposed goal of releasing what we expect to be a viral facebook app, and, eventually, a platform outside of facebook. It’s also bed-time, to get those […]

As an entrepreneur, networking is the best thing you could possibly do to either get feedback about your idea or to get an idea. Going to networking events will definitely help you make a good step in coming out with a business or can even get you a job at a startup.  

Jessica Mah and Alex […]

Since I started OnMyList in January, I’ve received tons of help and great advice from other entrepreneurs. Many of these fine people were complete strangers before I contacted them. Most were incredibly generous with the information they shared. Since our site went up in June, I’ve been on […]

Our buddy Siqi, coder of Facebook Mafia, and RoR developer with our friends at Powerset, wrote a comment to Aaron’s last post. This stirred me to write my own (software developer’s) analysis of designing and writing software and picking the “right” features.
In The Republic Plato reminds us that “Necessity is the mother of invention.” […]

Sometimes, when browsing relatively new web sites, I wonder who’s been doing this and who hasn’t. Who actually walks through the experience that their web site creates? Who discovers that their core features are hard to get to, or that they have features that are stupid that nobody wants? Then, of course, you get into the question of the features that were thought of as stupid that became standard… Like seatbelts. But I digress.

I guess we need a checklist for Web features. Here’s how I imagine it:

1: Is this feature stupid?

Picture of Jessica Mah of Startupism and Alex Notov of Startupism & the “Soon-to-be eBay of Services”
Stirr had its monthly mixer event once again at a new place this month a new format called Founder Hacks. Four founders presented and shared some tips or “hacks” that each went through in the process of getting funding […]

Last thursday, LuckyOliver had its one year anniversary birthday party at Ace Auto, a junkyard in San Francisco.LuckyOliver is a website that allows you to purchase and sell stock images. Ace Auto was a pretty cool place to visit and was also surprisingly clean and organized for a junkyard. To purchase photos on the website, […]

I’ll be blunt: I’m not sure how I got here. Six months ago I was finishing up my film degree at SF State, imagining a future in directing music videos and commercials. Upon finishing school, I breathed a sigh of relief and then realized that I was completely burnt out both creatively […]