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?

Part I: Housing and Transportation, aka “Should I bring my car?”
These days it seems rare when a week goes by in which I don’t meet a startup founder who has just moved to San Francisco. It’s no accident: the Bay Area is the preeminent locale for tech startups, and moving here is often a rite […]

… or so I hope as the co-founder of a new startup. Although not meant to be a self-indulgent post, I cannot help but be very thrilled to have finally made my move from my corporate/1099 consulting life in New York to the new and very exciting landscape of Silicon Valley.
For me, it came […]