Secret History of Silicon Valley: a Commentary
In 2008, Steve Blank gave a keynote called the Secret History of Silicon Valley.  I highly (highly) recommend that you watch the video before you read this post; it is well worth one hour of your time. You'll get a good perspective on what makes this place so unique and how it came about. (But then, come back and read the rest of the post, please :-)

Opportunity to Showcase Your Startups
Vator.tv wants to give a few content startups a hand by putting them in front of a bunch of top media companies.  We want to help these companies, too, by making sure they know about this event and getting the word out. Getting exposure to top media executives is a big challenge for many startups. Vator.tv wants to help young companies get noticed through its partnerRead More...

Google Wave October Meetups
I've attended two Google Wave Meetups in the last two weeks and they were both great. It is remarkable how quickly developers are filling out the Wave ecosystem with robots and gadgets and whatnots. One "bot" in particular, I found mind blowing. Last week's meetup tRead More...

Wave is to Interaction as the Browser was to Access
There's a lot of confusion out there about Wave. We're like the proverbial blind men trying to figure out the elephant. The people describing Wave as "like" something else are, in my opinion, missing one of the key things about Wave and what makes it a radical game-changer. Wave is not "like" anything that came before it. The same way that Mosaic, the original web browser, was not "like" anything that came before it. Mosaic's impact was on how it changed access to distributed content. Read More...

Better Estimates in 10 Steps
 I’m not a fan of using story points, however, one way or the other, estimates are a very important step in any project and a key to delivering on-time.  The result of not doing it is downright awful, and everybody in the team suffers the consequences.  In this post I want to share the steps we follow to make estimates. Without further ado,Get the whole team to Read More...