I wrote an article about the mistakes that we made when using cloud computing for GigaOm. Must-read for anyone who hasn’t made mistakes (i.e. blown thousands of dollars) yet!
Month: October 2010
SlideShare video launch: interview
Video interview that Ross Mayfield shot during the launch of SlideShare video.
Ultrabootstrapping: doing a startup on less than $1000
Yes it can be done! But it’s easier if you can code. ;->
I gave this talk at a fundraiser for the Brown University Entrepreneurship Program.
How to run a scrappy startup
Bars are the best place to talk about startups! Dan Martell and I had a great time at this fun startup event at the British Bankers Club. Hat tip to ladyleet for organizing!
How To Run A Scrappy Startup with Dan Martell and Jonathan Boutelle from Brent Tam on Vimeo.
interview in Steve Blank’s stanford entrepreneurship class
An interview from earlier in the year, in Steve Blank’s Stanford Entrepreneurship class.
It takes a village: scaling your vision
Slides from a talk Rashmi and I gave at Steve Blank‘s entrepreneur class at UC Berkeley.
How SlideShare Uses Amazon Web Services
I gave this talk at the Amazon and SAP Partner Event at the Plug and Play Tech Center in Sunnyvale on 6/17/2010
Jumpstarting customer traction and improving your valuation
Here’s my slides from my talk at TIECon 2010. It was a really fun crowd, and they asked a lot of really smart questions!
Adding Freemium to SlideShare
Slides and audio from my talk at the freemium summit yesterday. Enjoy!
Designing for performance (warm gun design conference)
Here’s the talk I gave two weeks ago at the awesome Warm Gun Designing Happiness Conference in SF. Audio included!
I talk a lot about optimizing client-side performance in this talk, because that’s where 80%-90% of the latency is.