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Prepare for the backlash

By Grubb | Published: January 30, 2010
Because there is going to be one, trust me. This device isn’t as obvious as iPhone. It’s kind of subtle. Which means that those of you who have done the spiritual work to prepare for it will be fine, but those who haven’t done the work, well, they’re probably going to miss a lot of [...]
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Apparent risk and actual risk

By Grubb | Published: October 12, 2009

Apparent risk and actual risk: "There are people who I will never encounter in a restaurant. That's because when these people go out for dinner, they go to chain restaurants. These are the tourists in New York who seek out the familiar Olive Garden instead of walking down the street to Pure. That's fine.

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Finding Your Co-Founders

By Grubb | Published: October 12, 2009

Finding Your Co-Founders: "The hardest part of starting from scratch is finding the right co-founders. Ideas, comparatively, are easy. You may spend three years finding your co-founders while you’ll come up with a solid idea every 3 months or so. Luckily, once you settle into a great founding team you’ll be able to execute much faster on that killer idea you all come up with – beating those ten other folks who came up with the same idea at the same time."

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Communities of Creators

By Grubb | Published: October 9, 2009

Communities of Creators: "What I've found, though, is that being part of an active, ambitious, supportive and diverse community of peers is just as valuable, if not more so, than any of the more prosaic prerequisites for success."

I'll bet that's true. Maybe I'll find out someday.

(Via Anil Dash.)

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Psychology, finance, war, cards…

By Grubb | Published: July 31, 2009
"This line-of-credit, the stop-gap measure that was supposed to solve the problem that hadn’t really existed in the first place had done nothing but worsen it. When we started the week, we had no liquidity issues. But because people had said that we did have problems with our capital, it became true, even though it wasn’t true when people started saying it. . . . So we were forced to find capital to offset the losses we’d sustained because somebody decided we didn’t have capital when we really did.
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A VC

By Grubb | Published: July 21, 2009
I really like Fred Wilson's blog. He's a tech VC (venture capitalist) based in New York. He's steady, and often I fall behind since he puts out some good stuff on a daily basis. Following the tack of this post, Facebook just added an SMS friend feature to their business pages. All you do if you're not already a fan is text "fan RailroadEarth" to whatever the number is. The question I could use your assistance with is how best to get the word out about this.
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Fake Steve Jobs on the new Chrome OS

By Grubb | Published: July 9, 2009
"Our guys on the Safari team even had special toilet paper made up with a Chrome logo on every sheet." The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: Let's all take a deep breath and get some perspective.
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ibD Manifesto

By Grubb | Published: May 27, 2009

Disclaimer(s) : I will me using the terms "we" and "us" and "our" to refer alternately to my band Railroad Earth, and to my colleagues in the jamband scene without differentiating every time which I'm talking about. You'll just have to figure it out. Hope it's not too confusing.

This began as an email to a Rails developer that I'd been conversing with. He brought up the Digg Trent Reznor interview. After the first bit my response became more like a blog post. So I'm posting.

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recordingTechnology.

By Grubb | Published: March 4, 2009
Now, this part won't be any news to anyone, but will mainly serve to help organize the thoughts in my brain. First, the old way:
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introduction.

By Grubb | Published: March 4, 2009
When in the course of your bands business, it becomes necessary to cast off your old, crappy website and the confusing, unnavigable interface which you present to the world as your first impression, and to assume the powers of PHP, CSS, XML, RoR, and other technologies not yet invented in the pursuit of a highly compelling online experience, a more meaningful dialogue with your fanbase, and the glorious rewards of possibly higher merch sales, a decent respect to the opinions of webmasters everywhere requires that I should declare the causes which impel me to dream of a better way....
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