Monthly Archives: May 2009 »
How cheap should we be?
As Baydin has started, I’ve heard a number of different voices on how cheap a startup should be. Those voices have almost universally concentrated toward the extremes – they advise either being incredibly, incredibly
Read More »Effective Phone Interviews
Alex and I spent some portion of our time phone interviewing potential interns for the summer. Unfortunately, the resume is often an inaccurate indicator of one’s programming ability. In a previous existence, we could
Read More »When You are THE MAN
Our friends have asked us if we were nervous about going out on our own, especially with the economy as it is. Alex and I have wanted to do our own thing for a
Read More »Desktop Search: What hasn’t changed
A few posts back, we talked about why search on the desktop works a lot better than it did just a few years ago. In this post, we’ll talk about how desktop search hasn’t
Read More »How do you feel about… telepathy?
Whenever I ask friends what superpower they would most want, one person would say “I want to read minds.” This can be a double-edged sword. Baydin will get you more than half-way there. We can’t
Read More »How do you transfer knowledge and experience?
As we start Baydin, we wrap up work at our old jobs. I’ve spent the last three weeks trying to “transfer” everything I’ve learned in the greater part of a decade to my colleagues.
Read More »A Brief History of Search on the Desktop
Desktop search has come a long way in the past few years. In this post, we’ll explore how the technology behind all of the major desktop search options has changed based on web search
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