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How to Make a Professional Website
Here are the resources I use: www.sidewages.com/resources/
Why Go Pro?
- needed to succeed in online commerce
- garner trust in the market-space
- become the authority for your topic
- more people = help more = more resources
What I Don't Mean By Pro
- super-duper programming gurus not needed
- look good, but not super-awesome
- avoid the 1997 animated GIF website
Clarity of Content
- tell visitors what it's about
- avoid all instances of confusion
- text & images need to be relevant
The First Thing They See
- the logo should make sense
- the headline should tell the story
- consider a subheadline for details
Be Careful with Your Text
- be concise
- be clear and summarize
- use headings
- use bulleted lists
Navigation is Key
- allow your visitors to move around
- easy = happy; complex = gone
- multiple specific pages
- not just one big page
- a sitemap is a must
- links have to work
Templates Are Awesome
- ready-made templates can save time
- there are plenty freebies available
- there as some really nice paid-ones, too
- structure is usually tried & true
Go Forth and Be Professional
- aim for professional
- know that bootstrapped is still okay
- I suggest Wordpress
- free themes to get started
- you can't break anything
Here are the resources I use: www.sidewages.com/resources/
How to Make a Professional Website
Here are the resources I use: www.sidewages.com/resources/
Why Go Pro?
- needed to succeed in online commerce
- garner trust in the market-space
- become the authority for your topic
- more people = help more = more resources
What I Don't Mean By Pro
- super-duper programming gurus not needed
- look good, but not super-awesome
- avoid the 1997 animated GIF website
Clarity of Content
- tell visitors what it's about
- avoid all instances of confusion
- text & images need to be relevant
The First Thing They See
- the logo should make sense
- the headline should tell the story
- consider a subheadline for details
Be Careful with Your Text
- be concise
- be clear and summarize
- use headings
- use bulleted lists
Navigation is Key
- allow your visitors to move around
- easy = happy; complex = gone
- multiple specific pages
- not just one big page
- a sitemap is a must
- links have to work
Templates Are Awesome
- ready-made templates can save time
- there are plenty freebies available
- there as some really nice paid-ones, too
- structure is usually tried & true
Go Forth and Be Professional
- aim for professional
- know that bootstrapped is still okay
- I suggest Wordpress
- free themes to get started
- you can't break anything
Here are the resources I use: www.sidewages.com/resources/
How to Make a Professional Website
Here are the resources I use: www.sidewages.com/resources/
Why Go Pro?
- needed to succeed in online commerce
- garner trust in the market-space
- become the authority for your topic
- more people = help more = more resources
What I Don't Mean By Pro
- super-duper programming gurus not needed
- look good, but not super-awesome
- avoid the 1997 animated GIF website
Clarity of Content
- tell visitors what it's about
- avoid all instances of confusion
- text & images need to be relevant
The First Thing They See
- the logo should make sense
- the headline should tell the story
- consider a subheadline for details
Be Careful with Your Text
- be concise
- be clear and summarize
- use headings
- use bulleted lists
Navigation is Key
- allow your visitors to move around
- easy = happy; complex = gone
- multiple specific pages
- not just one big page
- a sitemap is a must
- links have to work
Templates Are Awesome
- ready-made templates can save time
- there are plenty freebies available
- there as some really nice paid-ones, too
- structure is usually tried & true
Go Forth and Be Professional
- aim for professional
- know that bootstrapped is still okay
- I suggest Wordpress
- free themes to get started
- you can't break anything
Here are the resources I use: www.sidewages.com/resources/
Holiday parties in January make a lot of sense if you think about it... :)
Founded and initially bootstrapped by twin brothers Lucas and Lee Brown, TUNE is the Seattle-based attribution analytics company behind the products MobileAppTracking (MAT), HasOffers, and MobileDevHQ (MDHQ). With a mission to make mobile marketing better for everyone, TUNE creates Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) products to help marketers manage performance advertising relationships across mobile and desktop. Named the 63rd fastest growing company by Inc. 500 in 2013 and a top 10 mobile advertising company by VentureBeat, TUNE is backed by Accel Partners (investment led by Rich Wong) and has more than 250 employees with additional offices in San Francisco, New York, Berlin, Seoul, Tel Aviv, and London.
How to Make a Professional Website
Here are the resources I use: www.sidewages.com/resources/
Why Go Pro?
- needed to succeed in online commerce
- garner trust in the market-space
- become the authority for your topic
- more people = help more = more resources
What I Don't Mean By Pro
- super-duper programming gurus not needed
- look good, but not super-awesome
- avoid the 1997 animated GIF website
Clarity of Content
- tell visitors what it's about
- avoid all instances of confusion
- text & images need to be relevant
The First Thing They See
- the logo should make sense
- the headline should tell the story
- consider a subheadline for details
Be Careful with Your Text
- be concise
- be clear and summarize
- use headings
- use bulleted lists
Navigation is Key
- allow your visitors to move around
- easy = happy; complex = gone
- multiple specific pages
- not just one big page
- a sitemap is a must
- links have to work
Templates Are Awesome
- ready-made templates can save time
- there are plenty freebies available
- there as some really nice paid-ones, too
- structure is usually tried & true
Go Forth and Be Professional
- aim for professional
- know that bootstrapped is still okay
- I suggest Wordpress
- free themes to get started
- you can't break anything
Here are the resources I use: www.sidewages.com/resources/
How to Make a Professional Website
Here are the resources I use: www.sidewages.com/resources/
Why Go Pro?
- needed to succeed in online commerce
- garner trust in the market-space
- become the authority for your topic
- more people = help more = more resources
What I Don't Mean By Pro
- super-duper programming gurus not needed
- look good, but not super-awesome
- avoid the 1997 animated GIF website
Clarity of Content
- tell visitors what it's about
- avoid all instances of confusion
- text & images need to be relevant
The First Thing They See
- the logo should make sense
- the headline should tell the story
- consider a subheadline for details
Be Careful with Your Text
- be concise
- be clear and summarize
- use headings
- use bulleted lists
Navigation is Key
- allow your visitors to move around
- easy = happy; complex = gone
- multiple specific pages
- not just one big page
- a sitemap is a must
- links have to work
Templates Are Awesome
- ready-made templates can save time
- there are plenty freebies available
- there as some really nice paid-ones, too
- structure is usually tried & true
Go Forth and Be Professional
- aim for professional
- know that bootstrapped is still okay
- I suggest Wordpress
- free themes to get started
- you can't break anything
Here are the resources I use: www.sidewages.com/resources/
How to Make a Professional Website
Here are the resources I use: www.sidewages.com/resources/
Why Go Pro?
- needed to succeed in online commerce
- garner trust in the market-space
- become the authority for your topic
- more people = help more = more resources
What I Don't Mean By Pro
- super-duper programming gurus not needed
- look good, but not super-awesome
- avoid the 1997 animated GIF website
Clarity of Content
- tell visitors what it's about
- avoid all instances of confusion
- text & images need to be relevant
The First Thing They See
- the logo should make sense
- the headline should tell the story
- consider a subheadline for details
Be Careful with Your Text
- be concise
- be clear and summarize
- use headings
- use bulleted lists
Navigation is Key
- allow your visitors to move around
- easy = happy; complex = gone
- multiple specific pages
- not just one big page
- a sitemap is a must
- links have to work
Templates Are Awesome
- ready-made templates can save time
- there are plenty freebies available
- there as some really nice paid-ones, too
- structure is usually tried & true
Go Forth and Be Professional
- aim for professional
- know that bootstrapped is still okay
- I suggest Wordpress
- free themes to get started
- you can't break anything
Here are the resources I use: www.sidewages.com/resources/
How to Make a Professional Website
Here are the resources I use: www.sidewages.com/resources/
Why Go Pro?
- needed to succeed in online commerce
- garner trust in the market-space
- become the authority for your topic
- more people = help more = more resources
What I Don't Mean By Pro
- super-duper programming gurus not needed
- look good, but not super-awesome
- avoid the 1997 animated GIF website
Clarity of Content
- tell visitors what it's about
- avoid all instances of confusion
- text & images need to be relevant
The First Thing They See
- the logo should make sense
- the headline should tell the story
- consider a subheadline for details
Be Careful with Your Text
- be concise
- be clear and summarize
- use headings
- use bulleted lists
Navigation is Key
- allow your visitors to move around
- easy = happy; complex = gone
- multiple specific pages
- not just one big page
- a sitemap is a must
- links have to work
Templates Are Awesome
- ready-made templates can save time
- there are plenty freebies available
- there as some really nice paid-ones, too
- structure is usually tried & true
Go Forth and Be Professional
- aim for professional
- know that bootstrapped is still okay
- I suggest Wordpress
- free themes to get started
- you can't break anything
Here are the resources I use: www.sidewages.com/resources/
Phylogeny of melanopsin in C. milii and other vertebrates.Phylogenetic analyses based on a codon-matched nucleotide alignment of elephant shark opn4 cDNA sequences compared to the melanopsin sequences of representative chordates and the published visual and non-visual photosensory pigments of the zebrafish (Danio rerio), showing the relative positioning of elephant shark opn4m1, opn4m2 and opn4x photopigments (arrow) within the two main clades (m-class (purple) and x-class (blue)) of melanopsin. (A) A Bayesian Probabilistic Inference (BPI) method, performed with a Metropolis Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm [43], [44] and incorporating a general time-reversal (GTR) model [45] with posterior probability values (represented as a percentage) indicated at the base of each node. (B) Maximum Composite Likelihood (MCL) [47] and (C) Kimura 2-Parameter (K2P) substitution [48] matrix methods, both generating bootstrapped, Neighbour-Joining (NJ) phylogenetic trees [49], with the degree of internal branching expressed as a percentage. The scale bar indicates the number of nucleotide substitutions per site. The human GPR21 (GenBank accession number: NM005294) and GPR52 (GenBank accession number: NM005684) nucleotide sequences were used as outgroups. The opsin sequences and their GenBank accession numbers used for generating the tree are as follows: (i) exorhodopsin (exorh): zebrafish (Danio rerio), NM131212; (ii) rod opsin (rh1): zebrafish (Danio rerio), NM131084 (rh1.1), HM367062 (rh1.2); (iii) rod opsin-like 2 (rh2): zebrafish (Danio rerio), NM131253 (Rh2.1), NM182891 (Rh2.2), NM182892 (Rh2.3), NM131254 (Rh2.4); (iv) short-wavelength-sensitive 2 (sws2): zebrafish (Danio rerio), NM131192; (v) short-wavelength-sensitive 1 (sws1): zebrafish (Danio rerio), NM131319; (vi) long-wavelength-sensitive/middle-wavelength-sensitive (lws/mws): zebrafish (Danio rerio), NM131175 (lws1), NM001002443 (lws2); (vii) vertebrate ancient (va) opsin: zebrafish (Danio rerio), AB035276 (va1), AY996588 (va2); (viii) panopsin (opn3): zebrafish (Danio rerio), NM001111164; (ix) teleost multiple tissue (tmt) opsin: zebrafish (Danio rerio), BC163681; (x) retinal pigment epithelium-specific rhodopsin homolog (rrh) (peropsin): zebrafish (Danio rerio), NM001004654; (xi) retinal G protein-coupled receptor (rgr): zebrafish (Danio rerio), NM001017877; (xii) mammalian-like melanopsin (opn4m): human (Homo sapiens), NM033282 (OPN4V1); cat (Felis catus), AY382594; mouse (Mus musculus), EU303118 (Opn4mlong); rat (Rattus norvegicus), NM138860; hamster (Phodopus sungorus), AY726733; mole-rat (Spalax ehrenbergi), AM748539; dunnart (Sminthopsis crassicaudata), DQ383281; chicken (Gallus gallus), EU124632 (OPN4Mlong); catfish (Ictalurus punctatus), FJ839437 (opn4m1), FJ839438 (opn4m2); roach (Rutilus rutilus), AY226847; cichlid (Astatotilapia burtoni), EU523855; zebrafish (Danio rerio), GQ925715 (opn4m1), GQ925716 (opn4m2), GQ925717 (opn4m3); elephant shark (Callorhinchus milii), JQ172797 (opn4m1), JQ172798 (opn4m2); (xiii) xenopus-like melanopsin (opn4x): chicken (Gallus gallus), EU124630 (OPN4Xlong); lizard (Podarcis siculus), DQ013043; African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis), AF014797; cod (Gadus morhua), AF385823 (opn4xa), AY126448 (opn4xb); zebrafish (Danio rerio), GQ925718 (opn4x1), GQ925719 (opn4x2); elephant shark (Callorhinchus milii), JQ172799 (opn4xlong); (xiv) chordate melanopsin (opn4): lancelet (Branchiostoma belcheri), AB205400; and (xv) outgroup (not shown): human (Homo sapiens), NM005294 (GPR21), NM005684 (GPR52). The gene nomenclature used follows the guidelines adopted by the Entrez Gene database (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=gene). In brief, the genes of all terrestrial species are in uppercase, except for the mouse and rat, where only the first letter is capitalized. The genes of all aquatic species, including amphibians, are in lowercase.
How to Make a Professional Website
Here are the resources I use: www.sidewages.com/resources/
Why Go Pro?
- needed to succeed in online commerce
- garner trust in the market-space
- become the authority for your topic
- more people = help more = more resources
What I Don't Mean By Pro
- super-duper programming gurus not needed
- look good, but not super-awesome
- avoid the 1997 animated GIF website
Clarity of Content
- tell visitors what it's about
- avoid all instances of confusion
- text & images need to be relevant
The First Thing They See
- the logo should make sense
- the headline should tell the story
- consider a subheadline for details
Be Careful with Your Text
- be concise
- be clear and summarize
- use headings
- use bulleted lists
Navigation is Key
- allow your visitors to move around
- easy = happy; complex = gone
- multiple specific pages
- not just one big page
- a sitemap is a must
- links have to work
Templates Are Awesome
- ready-made templates can save time
- there are plenty freebies available
- there as some really nice paid-ones, too
- structure is usually tried & true
Go Forth and Be Professional
- aim for professional
- know that bootstrapped is still okay
- I suggest Wordpress
- free themes to get started
- you can't break anything
Here are the resources I use: www.sidewages.com/resources/
How to Make a Professional Website
Here are the resources I use: www.sidewages.com/resources/
Why Go Pro?
- needed to succeed in online commerce
- garner trust in the market-space
- become the authority for your topic
- more people = help more = more resources
What I Don't Mean By Pro
- super-duper programming gurus not needed
- look good, but not super-awesome
- avoid the 1997 animated GIF website
Clarity of Content
- tell visitors what it's about
- avoid all instances of confusion
- text & images need to be relevant
The First Thing They See
- the logo should make sense
- the headline should tell the story
- consider a subheadline for details
Be Careful with Your Text
- be concise
- be clear and summarize
- use headings
- use bulleted lists
Navigation is Key
- allow your visitors to move around
- easy = happy; complex = gone
- multiple specific pages
- not just one big page
- a sitemap is a must
- links have to work
Templates Are Awesome
- ready-made templates can save time
- there are plenty freebies available
- there as some really nice paid-ones, too
- structure is usually tried & true
Go Forth and Be Professional
- aim for professional
- know that bootstrapped is still okay
- I suggest Wordpress
- free themes to get started
- you can't break anything
Here are the resources I use: www.sidewages.com/resources/
How to Make a Professional Website
Here are the resources I use: www.sidewages.com/resources/
Why Go Pro?
- needed to succeed in online commerce
- garner trust in the market-space
- become the authority for your topic
- more people = help more = more resources
What I Don't Mean By Pro
- super-duper programming gurus not needed
- look good, but not super-awesome
- avoid the 1997 animated GIF website
Clarity of Content
- tell visitors what it's about
- avoid all instances of confusion
- text & images need to be relevant
The First Thing They See
- the logo should make sense
- the headline should tell the story
- consider a subheadline for details
Be Careful with Your Text
- be concise
- be clear and summarize
- use headings
- use bulleted lists
Navigation is Key
- allow your visitors to move around
- easy = happy; complex = gone
- multiple specific pages
- not just one big page
- a sitemap is a must
- links have to work
Templates Are Awesome
- ready-made templates can save time
- there are plenty freebies available
- there as some really nice paid-ones, too
- structure is usually tried & true
Go Forth and Be Professional
- aim for professional
- know that bootstrapped is still okay
- I suggest Wordpress
- free themes to get started
- you can't break anything
Here are the resources I use: www.sidewages.com/resources/
It's not the money
Many folks blame the money - "I could do it if I had the cash" - this is the voice of somebody who can't be bothered and does not have any real goals.
A modern day example is the Evernote type service called Springpad - even though they had 7.3 million USD of funding - they could not create a sustainable business - this could be for a variety of reasons and I'm not going to speculate either but just wanted to get the point across to you that its not the money that counts - its you and your desires and passions that decides whether you succeed in reaching your life goals.
This photo is of me and some workmates when I was working part time in a Japanese restaurant called Benihana. I left my father's studio to pursue my dreams of living and working in Japan (which you read about here) - working here fulfilled two goals - not only did I get to speak Japanese to staff and customers, I also earned the cash that I needed to travel to Japan once a year to absorb the culture.
I also reached another unexpected goal while working there - I met my wife ^^
Unfortunately there are a load of folks out there of the I-could-do-it-if-I-had-the-cash variety who are not willing to work for the money - I guess they are too good to wash or carry dishes like I did. Or maybe they were scared of breaking dishes like I sometimes did ^^;
The first thing that many startups do is seek funding but I see that as an act of not wanting to leave the comfort zone of a salaried job - this is evident by the flash offices these "startups" go and rent who start to fill it with expensive furniture and Macs for everyone - this does not sound like startup mentality to me.
Many successful startups tend to bootstrap their own business by initially using their own funds which are usually savings - in my case I bootstrapped my business through earnings at Amazon and Microsoft and over time through sales of Mirai Suenaga merchandise.
The good thing about using your own money to bootstrap your business is that you will be more frugal with the way cash is spent and learn how to innovate with scarce resources. Many companies who startup with millions of USD have abundant resources to play with so there is no need to innovate anymore. I guess this is one of the reasons why 90% of tech startups fail.
Humans do things based on necessity. If its not a requirement we tend not to do it because humans are by nature programmed to conserve energy - using energy to do something that is not a requirement goes against our programming.
If you was hungry you would go to the kitchen to look for food - if there is nothing in the cabinet or fridge then you would go out to get food. Eating is a necessity for us which is why we always make time to eat.
If you have a goal in life then you must make it a necessity - you must have a desire and a will to make it succeed - it is you that can and will make it happen - not the money.
Remember - its not the money - its you.
View more at www.dannychoo.com/en/post/25018/Danny+Choo.html
There is a strange link between economics and nature. When the first European settlers encountered the Great Plains, they referred too much of the land as the Great American Desert. Despite their concerns they set about plowing up the fields under the theory that the rain follows the plow. The genesis of this theory seemed to be rooted in the concept that somehow planting trees and crops would raise the amount of moisture in the air and the semi- arid landscape would, in time, receive enough rain to sustain farms. They were wrong. The plow follows the rain.
I often wonder about the link between housing, population and business. Like the 19th century pioneers, I wonder if business follows the houses. Or, is it the other way around? This is an important question as the city looks to rebuild. Does the city place an emphasis on building clearing land and pushing new housing development, or should most of the energy be placed on creating jobs? Perhaps the question is answered best by considering what economic force has created this landscape of abandonment. Without getting into the myriad of reasons why, and all of the political and cultural noise that discussion brings, let’s state for the record that the single biggest force driving the decline of Detroit has been the flight of the middle- class; first middle- class whites and now middle- class blacks. What has been left behind is a bewildering level of poverty and lack of resources. No sense talking about bootstrapping to folks who can’t afford shoes. So I guess the question we should be asking is how we get middle- class families back into the city. Business will follow the house.
Cast in steel, this is Charles Jenck’s interpretation of the double helix, the structure of DNA. It was installed in 2003 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the double helix by James Watson and Francis Crick. Near the Aquatic Garden. Kew Royal Botanic Gardens
Sequence analysis of BmTGIF.(A) Sequence comparison showed that the homeodomain and adjacent carboxy-terminal region are conserved among the tested species. Vertical line indicates the carboxy-terminal limit of the homeodomain; the TALE amino acids, RYN, which are characteristic of the TGIF families are indicated by a black box; the DNA-binding-determining residue between F and N in WFIN are indicated by a red box. (B) The full amino acid sequences of TGIF were used to construct the phylogenetic tree using a NJ program with bootstrapping using 500 replicates. The bootstrap values are shown on each internal node. Bm, Bombyx mori; Dm, Drosophila melanogaster; Nv, Nasonia vitripennis; Ag, Anopheles gambiae; Am, Apis mellifera; Hs, Homo sapiens; Mm, Mus musculus; Dr, Danio rerio; Aa, Aedes aegypti; Cq, Culex quinquefasciatus; Tc, Tribolium castaneum; Ph, Pediculus humanus corporis; Dp, Daphnia pulex; Xl, Xenopus laevis.
Holiday parties in January make a lot of sense if you think about it... :)
Founded and initially bootstrapped by twin brothers Lucas and Lee Brown, TUNE is the Seattle-based attribution analytics company behind the products MobileAppTracking (MAT), HasOffers, and MobileDevHQ (MDHQ). With a mission to make mobile marketing better for everyone, TUNE creates Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) products to help marketers manage performance advertising relationships across mobile and desktop. Named the 63rd fastest growing company by Inc. 500 in 2013 and a top 10 mobile advertising company by VentureBeat, TUNE is backed by Accel Partners (investment led by Rich Wong) and has more than 250 employees with additional offices in San Francisco, New York, Berlin, Seoul, Tel Aviv, and London.
Terrific exhibit -- glass objects recovered from shipwrecks displayed in a darkened room, lit from below. This is pieces of cullet -- scrap glass -- from the cargo of an 11th-century ship.
"But why transport scrap?", I hear you cry.
Well, to make glass, you need glass to start with -- which is why glassmaking is extremely difficult & was a closely guarded secret through much of history (more on that below). Pottery is easy to invent: build your campfire on a clay bank & you’ve got fired clay. It was an uncommon culture that didn’t have it. Build your campfire on a sandy beach, however, and you’ve got ... hot sand. The temperatures attainable by pre-Industrial Age fires are nowhere near high enough to melt quartz, the main raw material of glass. It’s only when you add exactly the right impurities (principally soda ash -- sodium carbonate) that you bring the melting temperature within reach. Even then, however, if you heat a mixture of sand and soda ash, it still won’t melt to speak of, because the crystals of the two substances stay separate, & neither gets hot enough to melt. What you need is a flux: a substance that will melt first and mutually dissolve the two minerals, allowing them to mix. That’s where the bootstrapping comes in: that flux is glass itself. Glass scrap used for this purpose is called cullet.
You might think glassmaking as closely guarded arcana is a thing of the past and has been replaced by modern industrial science. Not so. My father saw it firsthand, and it made such an impression on him that he was still telling the story decades later. He was an engineer in the '70s in a commercial glass bottle plant (Metro Container, of Jersey City & Carteret, NJ), and he had a colleague, Bob Dreyfus (sp?), who came from an Old World glassmaking family. Bob had a mysterious little black book. My father caught him consulting it when something wasn’t right with the ‘batch’ (raw material mix). It turned out to contain handwritten recipes for various types of glass. But Bob wouldn't let my father see it: it was his family's trade secrets, handed down through the generations, and he guarded it jealously. They tweaked the batch as Bob suggested, and sure enough, it solved the problem.
It's not the money
Many folks blame the money - "I could do it if I had the cash" - this is the voice of somebody who can't be bothered and does not have any real goals.
A modern day example is the Evernote type service called Springpad - even though they had 7.3 million USD of funding - they could not create a sustainable business - this could be for a variety of reasons and I'm not going to speculate either but just wanted to get the point across to you that its not the money that counts - its you and your desires and passions that decides whether you succeed in reaching your life goals.
This photo is of me and some workmates when I was working part time in a Japanese restaurant called Benihana. I left my father's studio to pursue my dreams of living and working in Japan (which you read about here) - working here fulfilled two goals - not only did I get to speak Japanese to staff and customers, I also earned the cash that I needed to travel to Japan once a year to absorb the culture.
I also reached another unexpected goal while working there - I met my wife ^^
Unfortunately there are a load of folks out there of the I-could-do-it-if-I-had-the-cash variety who are not willing to work for the money - I guess they are too good to wash or carry dishes like I did. Or maybe they were scared of breaking dishes like I sometimes did ^^;
The first thing that many startups do is seek funding but I see that as an act of not wanting to leave the comfort zone of a salaried job - this is evident by the flash offices these "startups" go and rent who start to fill it with expensive furniture and Macs for everyone - this does not sound like startup mentality to me.
Many successful startups tend to bootstrap their own business by initially using their own funds which are usually savings - in my case I bootstrapped my business through earnings at Amazon and Microsoft and over time through sales of Mirai Suenaga merchandise.
The good thing about using your own money to bootstrap your business is that you will be more frugal with the way cash is spent and learn how to innovate with scarce resources. Many companies who startup with millions of USD have abundant resources to play with so there is no need to innovate anymore. I guess this is one of the reasons why 90% of tech startups fail.
Humans do things based on necessity. If its not a requirement we tend not to do it because humans are by nature programmed to conserve energy - using energy to do something that is not a requirement goes against our programming.
If you was hungry you would go to the kitchen to look for food - if there is nothing in the cabinet or fridge then you would go out to get food. Eating is a necessity for us which is why we always make time to eat.
If you have a goal in life then you must make it a necessity - you must have a desire and a will to make it succeed - it is you that can and will make it happen - not the money.
Remember - its not the money - its you.
View more at www.dannychoo.com/en/post/27195/Smart+Doll.html
Teams of ex-felons seeking to start businesses in New York City compete in Defy Venture's first Mocktail competition. The teams created and prepared nonalcoholic cocktails (mock cocktails) that they then sold to guests. The drinks were as colorful as they were refreshing, especially in the midst of a historic heatwave.
As participants in the MBA-style Defy program, they learn business, accounting, and sales skills that can lead to successful ventures and careers.
www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=369
sites.google.com/a/opensailing.net/www/press
Article by
Olga Panades Massanet (10/12/09)
About
project Open_Sailing 10/12/09 by Cesar Harada
Open_Sailing's biggest achievement is perhaps to have turned our future into an open source project. Led by a group of enthusiasts, gathered around the idea of "we don't know what will happen, but together we can invent our future and cope", the project puts forward a very ambitious, action-driven, experiment-led, way of thinking forward. After meeting with the founder of the project, Cesar Harada, Open_Sailing proved to be a much more complex enterprise than I thought.
Initially the project started by mapping threats, the idea being that threats can produce something else than fear. Indeed Cesar Harada, was decided to turn threats into design constraints. This constitutes an interesting methodology to deal with the current climate of fear. The exploitation of threat has become the standard procedure to stabilize a permanent state of emergency. Mobilising virtual threats, states acquire exceptional powers that facilitate the implementation of ever more pervasive measures of control. The current case of swine flu is the last of a long list of exercises of mass modulation of fear. War on terror is the paradigmatic one. On the other hand, and following the warnings of the Maya calendar, all sorts of popular tales for an apocalyptic 2012 have started to populate the planet.
The role of Open_Sailing is to function as a catalyst that channels all this energy into the production of a better future. In short, its role is to transform fear into hope. Certainly this functioned as a strong attractor for new collaborators and soon the team started to grow. After putting together large amounts of real-time data about all sorts of dangers such as tsunami, terrorist attacks, nuclear accidents or pandemics, it became clear that the potential safest spots on earth were mostly located at sea. That led to the idea of designing the infrastructure necessary to inhabit those spots based on the concept of 'Open Architecture'. Fear had been successfully turned into an active force unleashing the creative process. Inspired by this initial concept the Open_Sailing team started a very intense process of scientific, technological, architectural and artistic research that resulted in a first prototype awarded at Ars Electronica: Open_Sailing_01.
"A drifting village of solid and comfortable shelters surrounded by flexible ocean farming units: fluid, pre-broken, reconfigurable, sustainable, pluggable, organic and instinctive." [1]
This drifting village, which is about 50 metres in diameter and can host four people, is designed to respond to its environment, being able to become compact and endure severe weather conditions, and spreading out to harvest in calm situations. Open_Sailing_01 was supposed to set sail last May 2009 but mis-coordination in the production with Ars Electronica delayed the plan. In the meantime, small intermediary prototypes of different modules are being built and tested constantly, but the Open_Sailing team hopes to put together the main modules of the International_Ocean_Station for general testing by the summer 2010.
One other important thing that came across in the interview with Cesar Harada was how soon after Open_Sailing was set in motion, it became clear that the project was not only about escaping the problematics of our society. It was definitely not an idealistic utopia happening elsewhere and starting a world from scratch. Rather than an exercise of escapism, they realised that the idea of inhabiting those sites where there is no threat had become an experimental laboratory where to grasp the future. Indeed Open_Sailing is very much about finding ways to face and deal with the very problems of our world.
"Be it overpopulation, global warming or energy conflicts, we are living in a time where 'Apocalypse' beckons. We need to collectively invent and spread bootstrapping DIY technologies for the forthcoming challenges, not only to survive but to re-invent how we inhabit this planet." [2]
This became particularly obvious when the team flew to Morocco to try out some live-saving structures. Between the coast of Morocco and the Canary Islands in Spain hundreds of illegal immigrants die every year at sea. A high-seas permanent shelter would provide a low cost life-saving facility for the migrants.
This particular instance is also paradigmatic of the way in which experimentation is carried within the project. Future thinking is developed through material instantiations. This very characteristic process of design and engineering disciplines gives Open_Sailing an exciting palpability, a materiality, a commitment with actualisation that accounts for its potential to bring about real change. Commitment with results drives the project away from the artistic disciplines, but the poetics of the project undeniably brings them back together. A project that in a year of development has acquired such a level of complexity necessarily had to go through a very intense and accelerated process of conceptualisation and experimentation. And there comes the figure of the enthusiast, an experimental survivalist who is willing to take a plane the morning after an idea has come up to participate in a military training testing life-saving technologies.
Even more interesting is perhaps how this enthusiasm becomes contagious and the project starts to work as a truly open source venture. Open_Sailing becomes a powerful autonomous entity that keeps bringing people in a dividing itself into labs. Each new lab engages a whole new group of contributors, with a new set of preoccupations and hopes. The project proves to be definitely not about the implementation of a master plan or utopian blue print, but an example of how open source can literally be applied to the construction of alternative worlds. Within these labs we find different experimental research projects focusing for example on mesh networking; pollution, climate and natural reserve monitoring; sustainable aquaculture in high seas; or energy autonomous systems that generate electricity through wind, sun or wave power.
Now, there is of course the problem of co-option. The research being done is a very useful material with infinite commercial and even military applications. But perhaps this is not something that compromises the success of the project. Rather, its value lies in its capacity to encourage people to co-design their own futures. It is more about joining people that want to create than attracting those that want to buy. Surely, it is the process of creation of alternative that's been set in motion that is truly significant, even more than the technologies being produced. Furthermore, Open_Sailing manages to reverse the process of co-option, the same way it reverses the effects of threat. Collaborators turn to scientific institutions, corporations, military research, as a useful resource, and then open up the knowledge acquired. This is not a new 'green design' product for the consumerist society, it is a spark for a collaborative rethinking of the world.
Inventor of computer mouse and pioneer of human computer interaction.
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Dr. Douglas C. Engelbart is an American inventor and early computer pioneert. He is best known for inventing the computer mouse, as a pioneer of human-computer interaction whose team developed hypertext, networked computers, and precursors to GUIs; and as a committed and vocal proponent of the development and use of computers and networks to help cope with the world’s increasingly urgent and complex problems.
His lab at SRI was responsible for more breakthrough innovation than possibly any other lab before or since. Engelbart had embedded in his lab a set of organizing principles, which he termed his "bootstrapping strategy", which he specifically designed to bootstrap and accelerate the rate of innovation achievable.
Teams of ex-felons seeking to start businesses in New York City compete in Defy Venture's first Mocktail competition. The teams created and prepared nonalcoholic cocktails (mock cocktails) that they then sold to guests. The drinks were as colorful as they were refreshing, especially in the midst of a historic heatwave.
As participants in the MBA-style Defy program, they learn business, accounting, and sales skills that can lead to successful ventures and careers.
Teams of ex-felons seeking to start businesses in New York City compete in Defy Venture's first Mocktail competition. The teams created and prepared nonalcoholic cocktails (mock cocktails) that they then sold to guests. The drinks were as colorful as they were refreshing, especially in the midst of a historic heatwave.
As participants in the MBA-style Defy program, they learn business, accounting, and sales skills that can lead to successful ventures and careers.
Teams of ex-felons seeking to start businesses in New York City compete in Defy Venture's first Mocktail competition. The teams created and prepared nonalcoholic cocktails (mock cocktails) that they then sold to guests. The drinks were as colorful as they were refreshing, especially in the midst of a historic heatwave.
As participants in the MBA-style Defy program, they learn business, accounting, and sales skills that can lead to successful ventures and careers.
Teams of ex-felons seeking to start businesses in New York City compete in Defy Venture's first Mocktail competition. The teams created and prepared nonalcoholic cocktails (mock coctails) that they then sold to guests. The drinks were as colorful as they were refreshing, especially in the midst of a historic heatwave.
As participants in the MBA-style Defy program, they learn business, accounting, and sales skills that can lead to successful ventures and careers.
Teams of ex-felons seeking to start businesses in New York City compete in Defy Venture's first Mocktail competition. The teams created and prepared nonalcoholic cocktails (mock coctails) that they then sold to guests. The drinks were as colorful as they were refreshing, especially in the midst of a historic heatwave.
As participants in the MBA-style Defy program, they learn business, accounting, and sales skills that can lead to successful ventures and careers.
Teams of ex-felons seeking to start businesses in New York City compete in Defy Venture's first Mocktail competition. The teams created and prepared nonalcoholic cocktails (mock cocktails) that they then sold to guests. The drinks were as colorful as they were refreshing, especially in the midst of a historic heatwave.
As participants in the MBA-style Defy program, they learn business, accounting, and sales skills that can lead to successful ventures and careers.
www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=369
sites.google.com/a/opensailing.net/www/press
Article by
Olga Panades Massanet (10/12/09)
About
project Open_Sailing 10/12/09 by Cesar Harada
Open_Sailing's biggest achievement is perhaps to have turned our future into an open source project. Led by a group of enthusiasts, gathered around the idea of "we don't know what will happen, but together we can invent our future and cope", the project puts forward a very ambitious, action-driven, experiment-led, way of thinking forward. After meeting with the founder of the project, Cesar Harada, Open_Sailing proved to be a much more complex enterprise than I thought.
Initially the project started by mapping threats, the idea being that threats can produce something else than fear. Indeed Cesar Harada, was decided to turn threats into design constraints. This constitutes an interesting methodology to deal with the current climate of fear. The exploitation of threat has become the standard procedure to stabilize a permanent state of emergency. Mobilising virtual threats, states acquire exceptional powers that facilitate the implementation of ever more pervasive measures of control. The current case of swine flu is the last of a long list of exercises of mass modulation of fear. War on terror is the paradigmatic one. On the other hand, and following the warnings of the Maya calendar, all sorts of popular tales for an apocalyptic 2012 have started to populate the planet.
The role of Open_Sailing is to function as a catalyst that channels all this energy into the production of a better future. In short, its role is to transform fear into hope. Certainly this functioned as a strong attractor for new collaborators and soon the team started to grow. After putting together large amounts of real-time data about all sorts of dangers such as tsunami, terrorist attacks, nuclear accidents or pandemics, it became clear that the potential safest spots on earth were mostly located at sea. That led to the idea of designing the infrastructure necessary to inhabit those spots based on the concept of 'Open Architecture'. Fear had been successfully turned into an active force unleashing the creative process. Inspired by this initial concept the Open_Sailing team started a very intense process of scientific, technological, architectural and artistic research that resulted in a first prototype awarded at Ars Electronica: Open_Sailing_01.
"A drifting village of solid and comfortable shelters surrounded by flexible ocean farming units: fluid, pre-broken, reconfigurable, sustainable, pluggable, organic and instinctive." [1]
This drifting village, which is about 50 metres in diameter and can host four people, is designed to respond to its environment, being able to become compact and endure severe weather conditions, and spreading out to harvest in calm situations. Open_Sailing_01 was supposed to set sail last May 2009 but mis-coordination in the production with Ars Electronica delayed the plan. In the meantime, small intermediary prototypes of different modules are being built and tested constantly, but the Open_Sailing team hopes to put together the main modules of the International_Ocean_Station for general testing by the summer 2010.
One other important thing that came across in the interview with Cesar Harada was how soon after Open_Sailing was set in motion, it became clear that the project was not only about escaping the problematics of our society. It was definitely not an idealistic utopia happening elsewhere and starting a world from scratch. Rather than an exercise of escapism, they realised that the idea of inhabiting those sites where there is no threat had become an experimental laboratory where to grasp the future. Indeed Open_Sailing is very much about finding ways to face and deal with the very problems of our world.
"Be it overpopulation, global warming or energy conflicts, we are living in a time where 'Apocalypse' beckons. We need to collectively invent and spread bootstrapping DIY technologies for the forthcoming challenges, not only to survive but to re-invent how we inhabit this planet." [2]
This became particularly obvious when the team flew to Morocco to try out some live-saving structures. Between the coast of Morocco and the Canary Islands in Spain hundreds of illegal immigrants die every year at sea. A high-seas permanent shelter would provide a low cost life-saving facility for the migrants.
This particular instance is also paradigmatic of the way in which experimentation is carried within the project. Future thinking is developed through material instantiations. This very characteristic process of design and engineering disciplines gives Open_Sailing an exciting palpability, a materiality, a commitment with actualisation that accounts for its potential to bring about real change. Commitment with results drives the project away from the artistic disciplines, but the poetics of the project undeniably brings them back together. A project that in a year of development has acquired such a level of complexity necessarily had to go through a very intense and accelerated process of conceptualisation and experimentation. And there comes the figure of the enthusiast, an experimental survivalist who is willing to take a plane the morning after an idea has come up to participate in a military training testing life-saving technologies.
Even more interesting is perhaps how this enthusiasm becomes contagious and the project starts to work as a truly open source venture. Open_Sailing becomes a powerful autonomous entity that keeps bringing people in a dividing itself into labs. Each new lab engages a whole new group of contributors, with a new set of preoccupations and hopes. The project proves to be definitely not about the implementation of a master plan or utopian blue print, but an example of how open source can literally be applied to the construction of alternative worlds. Within these labs we find different experimental research projects focusing for example on mesh networking; pollution, climate and natural reserve monitoring; sustainable aquaculture in high seas; or energy autonomous systems that generate electricity through wind, sun or wave power.
Now, there is of course the problem of co-option. The research being done is a very useful material with infinite commercial and even military applications. But perhaps this is not something that compromises the success of the project. Rather, its value lies in its capacity to encourage people to co-design their own futures. It is more about joining people that want to create than attracting those that want to buy. Surely, it is the process of creation of alternative that's been set in motion that is truly significant, even more than the technologies being produced. Furthermore, Open_Sailing manages to reverse the process of co-option, the same way it reverses the effects of threat. Collaborators turn to scientific institutions, corporations, military research, as a useful resource, and then open up the knowledge acquired. This is not a new 'green design' product for the consumerist society, it is a spark for a collaborative rethinking of the world.
Teams of ex-felons seeking to start businesses in New York City compete in Defy Venture's first Mocktail competition. The teams created and prepared nonalcoholic cocktails (mock coctails) that they then sold to guests. The drinks were as colorful as they were refreshing, especially in the midst of a historic heatwave.
As participants in the MBA-style Defy program, they learn business, accounting, and sales skills that can lead to successful ventures and careers.
Teams of ex-felons seeking to start businesses in New York City compete in Defy Venture's first Mocktail competition. The teams created and prepared nonalcoholic cocktails (mock coctails) that they then sold to guests. The drinks were as colorful as they were refreshing, especially in the midst of a historic heatwave.
As participants in the MBA-style Defy program, they learn business, accounting, and sales skills that can lead to successful ventures and careers.
Teams of ex-felons seeking to start businesses in New York City compete in Defy Venture's first Mocktail competition. The teams created and prepared nonalcoholic cocktails (mock cocktails) that they then sold to guests. The drinks were as colorful as they were refreshing, especially in the midst of a historic heatwave.
As participants in the MBA-style Defy program, they learn business, accounting, and sales skills that can lead to successful ventures and careers.
Teams of ex-felons seeking to start businesses in New York City compete in Defy Venture's first Mocktail competition. The teams created and prepared nonalcoholic cocktails (mock coctails) that they then sold to guests. The drinks were as colorful as they were refreshing, especially in the midst of a historic heatwave.
As participants in the MBA-style Defy program, they learn business, accounting, and sales skills that can lead to successful ventures and careers.
I'm under your bed waiting to grab your feet... I can sniffing your socked feet and your boots, had been longing to hold your feet in my hands... your feet must be so juicy, mmmm.... I'm going to stab on your boot soles of feet with my sharp finger nails, slowly sucking blood from your soles. I know your blood tasted so good that I'll be licking your soles till last drop of your blood, then I will enjoy open up your sweet smelling boot and start chewing you toes and other part of your feet...mmm.