Author Archives: Brent
MIT Course on Failure
I just heard about a cool course at MIT – The Fine Art of Failure by Diane Garnick. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find the course in MIT’s OpenCourseWare, but I did find a description for it here: The goal of this course is to … Continue reading
Incubators Sell Mentors
Reading over a few important posts at Startup Lawyer, I came across a post on incubators with a very apt observation: Startups don’t evaluate their participation in an accelerator by asking “Is the $20k worth the equity given up to … Continue reading
Branching is Beautiful
I Finally Understand Evernote
I’ve used Evernote for probably 2 years now. I use it primarily as a text editor for all non-code text. It’s not a great text editor, in fact, it’s the buggiest I’ve ever used, but it’s everywhere, so I always … Continue reading
Crowd Funding WordPress Plugin Development
Over on Speckyboy, Andy Killen just restarted the discussion on rewarding plugin developers. It was a worthy topic of conversation when Alex King raised it last month in his Open Source Motivations post, and it’s a worthy topic now. Why? Well, because we … Continue reading
Dealing with Risk
Lately I’ve been monitoring my risk aversion. I want a life that is achievable only by taking a large number of major risks, yet I have a risk averse disposition. I uncovered today what I think is another one of … Continue reading
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