David Heinemeier Hansson at Startup School 08 "90 percent of successful startups start out with the wrong strategy and often take three or four attempts to get it right. That makes some kind of web sense. For those of us trained in the arts of journalism, though, it’s probably a tough lesson: We’re trained to ... Read more

If you’re building a product, you have to be great at saying No. Not ‘maybe’ or ‘later’. The only word is No. Building a great product isn’t about creating tonnes of tactically useful features which are tangentially related. It’s about delivering a cohesive product with well defined parameters. Apple - Designed By Apple - Intention ... Read more

I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately and it’s come up in so many conversations I’ve had about anything that even remotely sounds like a freemium model. At WooThemes, we have quite a few free products which is some kind of freemium incarnation: the free products help us with distribution, but there’s no obvious ... Read more