I have many friends who grew really addicted to their “smart” devices. When we’d go out for a drink, the common ritual occurs – check in with FourSquare, then tweet if it’s a particularly nice place, check their email, and maybe take a photo and post it on Facebook – and that’s even before the […] Continue reading → When I open my inbox, I find between 100-200 messages that have been marked as spam by Gmail, and then about 50 more that I mark as spam. Every single day. There are all these different types of spam – drugs, dating, services that I don’t need, lists that I never subscribed to, comment spam, random messages… […] Continue reading → I’ve been a diligent user of Firefox since it came out. Even though other browser followed, I kind of stick with it mainly for the excellent Firebug, Xmarks and SEO Doctor extensions. However, with their recent rapid release cycle things were getting a bit out of hand. I am constantly experiencing crashes (couple of times […] Continue reading → The most common question that I am asked about our startup is are we actively seeking investment and my answer so far has been no.
It seems that startups are somehow always related to investments and it is my strong belief that this is unrightfully so. There is nothing wrong with bootstrapped startups or startups whose purpose is not to have the big exit.
I am the strong believer in bootstrapped businesses. Continue reading →