May 2010
4 posts
Upgraded my jaunty vms to karmic, but apparently Rackspace Cloud needs a custom kernel (or the instance won’t boot).
BTW, @cloudsupport was great - they took care of the kernel update and were quick. Not a production server, but they treated it like one.
Use the 10/20/30 Rule to Avoid Disastrous... →
An oldie-but-goodie post from entrepreneur Guy Kawasaki directly addresses the kind of problems the military has with complex PowerPoint decks—boring read-throughs stuffed with too much on-screen text. His parameters for preventing audience paralysis is dubbed the 10/20/30 rule.
From Zero to a Million Users →
Xobni and Dropbox, two highly successful VC-backed ventures, had an impressive growth in their users within a fairly short period of time (2 million users within 2 years). Adam Smith of Xobni has a presentation discussing some many of the lessons learned from the experience of these two startups.