Archive for October, 2009
2. Intelligently dividing work and why bootstrapping makes sense
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In episode 2, we discuss a programming conference we attended last week, struggles dividing work amongst ourselves, our reasoning behind choosing to bootstrap Uproar, and sticking with a product that works and promoting it.
Show notes and links, roughly in the order we mentioned them:
On our podcasting setup
- http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/PodcastEquipment.html
- http://boagworld.com/podcast/show-66-beyond-html
- http://blog.stackoverflow.com/
On attending Strange Loop Conference 2009
- http://thestrangeloop.com/
- Alex Payne’s keynote presentation
- Matthew Taylor’s jQuery presentation
- http://torquebox.org/
On splitting work in an effort to make us more efficient
On our reasoning for bootstrapping a startup
- http://thestrangeloop.com/sessions/panel-programmers-turned-entrepreneurs
- Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
On choosing a project and sticking with what works, dropping what doesn’t
- Pocket God
- Booyah and their $5 million VC deal
- Obvious stopping Odeo and focusing on Twitter
On promoting your company & products
- Jeremy Olson of Tapity and his upcoming app
- tap tap tap and their blog
The music for this podcast, used by permission, is by Pretty Lights (intro) and Avi Ghosh (outro). The transition music is from Nine Inch Nail’s Ghosts I-IV album, a Creative Commons 3 licensed work.
