Customer Development, GeekStack Style
I’m a member of the Chicago Lean Startups group. Lean Startups and Customer Development is a new approach to reducing market risk for startups. Steve Blank, a many-times entrepreneur and current Stanford/Berkeley professor is the author and main proponent of this method. There was a recent discussion on the Chicago Lean Startups group where the [...]
A Manifesto for EduChange
Just one snippet of a great article on the eduFire blog:
Imagine a teacher who simply decides to focus exclusively on getting extremely good at explaining the problems in one particular chapter of a popular textbook. Let’s say that they develop movies and games and anecdotes and all sorts of stuff to make the problems [...]
Do Any “Social Games” Actually Have Good Gameplay?
Just read about this on Inside Social Games – a soccer RPG. Sounds pretty cool, until this bomb that dooms every social game:
This leads to annoyance #2. Each game is simulated in real-time. Sounds cool on paper, but there isn’t much to really see except some pictures moving about a soccer ball and scrolling text. [...]
Entrepreneurs as Celebrities
Srimana Mitra just wrote an article for Fortune about how entrepreneurial activity is increasing in India but it could grow faster if entrepreneurs were portrayed better by the media. I couldn’t have come up with a better description for what we’re trying to accomplish with GeekStack than the following quote:
“In Silicon Valley, Steve Jobs is [...]
Cell Size and Scale
Cell Size and Scale – A “Powers of Ten” type animation showing the size of different microbiological components next to each other.
