There are four stories that top our news for today. First, VentureBeat reports on Toshiba’s plans to fire 7000 employees. That is a big number and hopefully those people can find work quickly. VentureBeat also gives us an excellent post from Steve Blank on how 1/3 of your team needs to be crazy. Crazy isn’t… Read More Geek Reading December 22, 2015
Google leads the day with their post about working towards a more accessible world. On The Macro, they talk about a different idea on how to split equity among co-founders. The basic idea is to split it equally because once the business really starts (launch or outside funding), nothing else really matters. On DZone, we… Read More Geek Reading December 4, 2015
VentureBeat starts our day reporting on the new $5 Raspberry Pi Zero. I did not think the Pi could get smaller or cheaper, but I was wrong. Smashing Magazine has a good post on lessons learned from a startup. More importantly, it shows what you need to pay attention to and not just the possible… Read More Geek Reading November 27, 2015
Leading our day is a post on Conversation Agent, where Valeria Maltoni talks about what happens when technology fails to fade into the background. The post focuses on many healthcare systems, which can be amazingly bad, but every application needs to look at their user experience and design. Simplicity is hard, but it makes user… Read More Geek Reading November 17, 2015
Seth Godin leads us off with an excellent post about taking your own progress report. Are you asking yourself the hard questions? On AVC, Fred Wilson talks about watching what users do, not what they say. Granted, this is based on the Twitter favorite changes, but it applies to any startup with users. On the… Read More Geek Reading November 12, 2015
Seth Godin starts our day with another excellent post, this one talking about bravery. This is not the heroism type, but the bravery in our daily lives. Matthew Daniels talks about the new trend of journalist engineers, where the stories are almost all about data and visualization, and only accompanied by some text. On DZone… Read More Geek Reading October 28, 2015
Today we start with some interesting startup articles. First, on Bothsides of the Table, Mark Suster talks about the VC outlook for 2016. It is interesting to see what a highly respected VC is thinking about his industry for the next year. At VentureBeat, there is an excellent post about whether you should take a… Read More Geek Reading October 20, 2015
Seth Godin starts our day with a post on the power of fear. As usual, it is an excellent post that you should read. KD Nuggets gives us some information on the best advice from Quora on “How to learn machine learning”. It is a solid summary of the Quora discussion with a bunch of… Read More Geek Reading October 19, 2015
Amazon AWS continued the love fest and announced even more fun stuff! First, we have the AWS Mobile Hub that will help developers build, test and monitor mobile applications. The EC2 Container Service received an update with a container registry, CLI and more. CloudWatch Dashboards now allows you to have customized metrics views. Amazon IoT… Read More Geek Reading October 9, 2015
The Geekess leads the day again, but this time it is a very positive post about what makes a good community. More than anything, I think the post was only written because of the much larger number of positive comments on her last post. On Rants on Machine Learning, they show us what to do… Read More Geek Reading October 7, 2015
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