February 2012
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January 2012
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WatchBeautiful signup flow.
From Mint to Votizen
After a year of building Votizen with the team, I finally had a chance to take a small break over the holidays and reflect. I’ve worked in the Valley for almost five years now. Crazy to think how fast the time flew by, and how I’m more excited than ever. Since I haven’t written much lately, I want to briefly share what I’ve been doing. To tell you where I’m going, I have to first look back…...
December 2011
4 posts
Tactics for Recruiting Good Designers
My presentation from Warm Gun called “The Developer’s Unicorn: Tactics for Recruiting (Good) Designers” — full blog post is coming soon. You can see the video on the 500 Startups Livestream if you jump to 32 minutes in. The Slideshare is available too if you prefer.
Tell me about your design hiring experiences!
Designers, what do you want to tell all those developer/founders that are looking to hire you? Any stories or bad hiring / recruiting experiences you want to share?
Engineers / Founders, what do you want to know about catching unicorns finding, recruiting, and closing design talent?
Please tell me in the comments, you can leave them anonymously. I’m giving a talk on the subject at the...
November 2011
2 posts
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WatchThe CSS3 buttons with the “press in effect” all have this flaw. Whenever you use CSS to alter the button position in any way, the click event on javascript will not always fire. There’s a reason all the developers say that they’re experimental and not ready for production use. Quora is the only site that I’ve found where they got this to work (on their logo/home...
October 2011
5 posts
“Jobs’ relationship with Bill Gates goes back the furthest and is the most...”
– from 60 Minutes
Election Site Taps Social Networks →
One longtime campaign manager said a system like Votizen could become a powerful tool. “On the surface it seems like a great gold mine of data” and could be “a terrific advancement in voter contact,” said Steven Glazer, the vice mayor of Orinda who managed Jerry Brown’s successful 2010 gubernatorial campaign. “For all the junk we invest in, that person-to-person contact is always the most...
Allow the Athletics to Relocate to San Jose
My Votizen open letter on the Oakland A’s
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September 2011
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Political Campaigning: Old & New
votizen:
With 175,000 people projected to vote for Mayor of San Francisco in 2011, it’s likely that just 75,000 votes will decide the race. With hundreds of thousands of social media enthusiasts based in San Francisco, an effective Virtual Precinct Walk campaign could easily make the difference in determining the outcome.
“What’s desperately needed in our society are companies that represent genuine...”
– Peter Thiel
“Science and vision are not opposites or even at odds. They need each other. I...”
– Eric Ries
August 2011
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“The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better designs we...”
– Steve Jobs
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“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did...”
– Steve Jobs
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dentalspots asked: Can you refer a great UI designer? We are building couple of web apps that other people have done it before, but we need to improve the user experience drastically. Thanks
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Join us at Votizen
July 2011
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Mint vs. Wesabe: A B-School Case Study
by Zachary Goldstein & Stefan Jeschonnek, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Company overviews
Mint and Wesabe were started around the same time. Wesabe launched in November 2006, followed by Mint in September 2007. Both companies went after the same opportunity: to help people with their personal finances by making personal cash flows transparent. Even though they had a similar...
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“And how do the Whole Earth heirs of Silicon Valley stand today compared to their...”
– Facebook and the Epiphanator: An End to Endings?
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“However, while surfers may be more trusting, online shoppers are 30% less loyal...”
– Prettier websites make for more trusting web surfers, study finds.
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Dear Graphic and Web Designers, please understand... →
Dear Graphic and Web Designers, please understand that there are greater opportunities available to you.
You have an inherent need to solve problems, visually and conceptually. There is enormous value in this, but you may be misplacing your talents.
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“…it’s really attractive to start a company — there’s an...”
– Aydin Senkut
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“How can we work in the marketing tech field, for example, without knowing about...”
– Seth Godin
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“Edison was good at making things the world didn’t yet have but terrible at...”
– Bill Bryson on Thomas Edison (via tmblg)
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June 2011
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“Do experience designers shape how users feel or do they shape with respect to...”
– Oliver Reichenstein
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“In the world of developing consumer facing services, perhaps most ambitious...”
– Bryce Roberts
“When asked why he chose “The Fast And The Furious” as the theme for this batch,...”
– 500 Startups Unveils 2nd Batch: 21 Startups, From “Foodspotting For Fashion” To “Iron Chef In Your Living Room”
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