by isaokato | May 21, 2012 | Post
Because startups often accidentally build something nobody wants, it doesn’t matter much if they do it on time and on budget. The goal of a startup is to figure out the right thing to build—the thing customers want and will pay for—as quickly as possible. Eric Ries,...
by isaokato | May 20, 2012 | Post
We do everything wrong: instead of spending years perfecting our technology, we build a minimum viable product, an early product that is terrible, full of bugs and crash-your-computer-yes-really stability problems. Then we ship it to customers way before it’s ready....
by isaokato | May 19, 2012 | Post
When in doubt, dance it out via Casey Avaunt
by isaokato | May 18, 2012 | Post
Maybe the sight of contemporaries keeling over infuses survivors with a determination to make the most of their remaining years. Maybe people come to accept their strengths and weaknesses, give up hoping to become chief executive or have a picture shown in the Royal...
by isaokato | May 17, 2012 | Post
Taken at face value, these results suggest Japanese learn wisdom faster than Americans. One up, then, to the wizened Zen-masters. But they also suggest a paradox. Generally, America is seen as an individualistic society, whereas Japan is quite collectivist. Yet...
by isaokato | May 16, 2012 | Post
Building 20 at MIT was known as “the magical incubator.” The building had poor ventilation, poor lighting, thin walls and a leaky roof. A motley of different labs called it home, from the Laboratory for Nuclear Science to a piano repair shop to a cell culture lab. In...
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