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.
Enjoying listening to these. Keep it up. Thanks for the mention.
Jeremy
28 Oct 09 at 5:38 pm
Hi,
Really interested in keeping up to date with your blog but there doesn’t seem to be an RSS feed. Or am I missing something? RSS is the only way I manage to keep up with blogs!
Interesting stuff though.
Thanks.
Gareth
30 Oct 09 at 2:53 pm
@Gareth
You can subscribe to the RSS feed for the blog here:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/uproarblog
You can subscribe to the RSS feed for the podcast here:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/creatinganuproar
You can subscribe to the podcast in iTunes here:
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=337803705
I also just added a link to subscribe to the podcast via iTunes in each of our two podcast episodes. I’ll include this link in every podcast episode from now on so you others don’t miss it. Additionally, the blog now has several handy links to subscribe to the blog, podcast, twitter, etc on the right sidebar.
kevin
30 Oct 09 at 8:26 pm
Thanks for sharing your experiences. Interesting listening. Keep it up and good luck. (Thanks for the RSS link too)
Cheers
Rob
2 Nov 09 at 2:32 pm