Archive for the ‘Startups’ Category
Open Source Project Hosting and Management
Some suggestions for open source hosting and project management sites and software:
OFX: Open Financial Exchange
My latest interest is looking at an API called OFX or Open Financial Exchange. OFX exists to allow clients to connect directly to financial institutions and download transactions. An example is downloading the transactions of a checking account for some period of time. I started looking into OFX because there seems to be a need for a good personal finance application for Mac OS X and the one feature missing from existing apps is live connectivity to banks.
Lapdances on YouTube
Lee Gomes of the Wall Street Journal has pieced together some informal statistics about the popular video sharing site YouTube.com. Among the exceedingly popular title keywords are:
Can we say lapdance?
Sept. 2 Update: Read the article “Don’t touch that dial” featured on the Fortune magazine website.
Eric Sink on the Business of Software
I’m half way through this easy to read and sometimes comical book for entrepreneurial souls like myself. I highly recommend this to anyone considering starting their own software company or already managing a small startup.
Hackers and Painters
I have recently been very inspired and intrigued by Paul Graham’s book Hackers and Painters. Several essays including How to Start a Startup and How to Make Wealth give great insight and advice into the world of technology startups and what wealth really means.