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Push Perfection to V2.0
9 Feb 2011Here’s my scenario. I’m a perfectionist. I can find flaws in any design and especially mine. Which makes it excruciatingly scary to think about releasing this product into the world for other perfectionists to critique. And that thought has colored every design decision I’ve made in the last month. It’s slowing me down. And since [...]
How to Land a Dream Dev Job Without Web Experience
In: Startups
2 Feb 2011This presumes that your dream dev job involves working at highly competitive startups (or forward thinking behemoths). If your dream job is writing code in the relative obscurity security of a huge, slow-moving company with great benefits and little risk of having to do anything meaningful, then this isn’t for you. If you want one [...]
Here it is, the single greatest productivity hack I’ve learned while building GroupTrip. Perform a mental backup before you stop working. Take 30 seconds in your editor of choice and write down what you would be doing for the next 15 minutes if you didn’t have to stop. When you come back to work, you [...]
Clear.CO or Cntortd.COM – Split Testing a Domain Name
In: Startups
18 Jan 2011I’m building a group travel platform to make the logistics of planning trips with friends as fun as the trip itself. I had a great name for it too. Grouptrip.com. Since that was taken I started building under the name GrpTrp. It has symmetry, it’s relatively easy to describe (“grouptrip, no vowels”), and hey, I’m [...]
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There are also some seriously bad habits that can really impede your progress and your impact at a startup. Here are five mantras you need to forget if you’re leaving a big corporate job for the startup world.
Read Less Faster
In: Startups
5 Nov 2010At some point you’re going to realize that half of the advice out there contradicts the other half, and that those nuggets that seem to be universal are so broad as to be rendered useless to a single developer. At some point you have to force the noise to the background and build your product.
Everything Takes Longer
In: Startups
7 Jun 2010So we’ve “pivoted” (still getting used to the word) away from SkierUnderground for the time being, and while I have a little bit of time between projects, I thought it apropos to reflect on what happened over the last three months and extract some tidbits to take forward. I was going to write them all [...]
Start From a Solid Base
In: Startups
3 Jun 2010So we’ve “pivoted” (still getting used to the word) away from SkierUnderground for the time being, and while I have a little bit of time between projects, I thought it apropos to reflect on what happened over the last three months and extract some tidbits to take forward. I was going to write them all [...]
SkierUnderground – A Postmortem
In: Startups
2 Jun 2010For three months, I had a dream. Check that, for three months I worked off of fear, adrenaline and stress, and thought I had a dream. What I had was a desire to work for myself, and an admittedly mediocre idea of how to get there. I still fully believe in Derek Sivers’ mantra that [...]
About LostMahbles
My name's Bryan Marble. I'm a developer at HubSpot and an aspiring entrepreneur from the greater Boston area. I love talking startups, web usability and web apps in general and I'm always looking for new people to geek out with.
My latest project is GroupTrip, a group travel planning site that helps friends coordinate travel research and track expenses so that they can focus on the experience of the trip and not the logistics of traveling in groups. Check out the site, sign up for the e-mail list, and let me know if you have any feedback!
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- How to Land a Dream Dev Job Without Web Experience
- Productivity Hack for Bootstrapping a Company on 2 Hours a Day
- Clear.CO or Cntortd.COM – Split Testing a Domain Name
- 5 Things You Need to Forget When You Join a Startup
- Phone Number UX: 3 Solutions to Avoid Pissing Off Would-Be Users
- Read Less Faster
- Everything Takes Longer
- Start From a Solid Base