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 [...]
NoLinks Feed Now Contains No Links!
Disclaimer: If you like the random geeky asides and commentary on education, this post does not apply to you and you can skip it A long time ago I created an alternate RSS feed for people that wanted to keep up with GeekStack but didn’t care about the other things I sometimes blog about – [...]
Attract Mode Store – Geeky Stuff!
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Email Newsletter Signup Fixed – Sign up Now!
There was a mixup with my mailing list provider and some people reported being unable to sign up for the email newsletter. That is fixed now so if you have had problems or just haven’t signed up yet, use the form in the right-hand column.
Euler’s Identity T-Shirt
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Science Retro Funny Tee T-shirt from Zazzle.com
Science Retro Funny Tee T-shirt from Zazzle.com.
Create the Art for the First GeekStack Card
I’ve just posted a design contest to create the art for the first GeekStack card over at 99designs. Science Heroes Art – 1st of over 200 Pictures Needed! It was actually a good exercise because it forced me to put into words some of the basic premises and requirements of the project. Here’s the information: [...]
Make your own Chemistry lab
How good were the old [chemistry] sets? They were certainly more exciting, stocked with iodine and nitrates good for making unstable explosives or homemade rocket motors. Chlorine and cyanide compounds could emit deadly gases. A few chemicals turned out to cause cancer. Kits from the 1920s to the 60s might include radioactive uranium, deadly sodium [...]
When life gives you lemons, build robots
I smashed my finger in my door today. It hurt like hell, and I need to make sure I didn’t hurt it again. But I had to type! So I built a splint/typing claw out of a Lego NXT kit I had sitting around. Obviously it’s a short step to building a mechanized exoskeleton for [...]
Super Mario Laser-etched Laptop
Chris Maguire (@revolvingdork) who was a co-founder of ETSY and now is working on a new start up called Waffl has etched his laptop with the level maps of the original Super Mario Brothers. Thanks to @Make. Would be a masterpiece if not for the “Eee” logo in the upper left hand corner. via REPLICATOR [...]
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