From the monthly archives:

April 2009

Advice for recent MBA Grads

April 30, 2009

Yesterday I asked my fellow Twitterers this question:

“If VC firms shrink and Wall Street doesn’t recover soon where do all the freshly minted MBAs land?“

Here are some of the replies I received:

What to do with your MBA?

If you are interested in starting a company I recommend following nealrichter, changds, daynagrayson, robgo, kirilnyc, and payne92 on Twitter, all six are successful startup entrepreneurs.

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Your Users Don’t Care

April 20, 2009

This morning we heard that Oracle is buying its closest friendemy, Sun Microsystems. The reasons for doing so appear obvious but I think it’s because their users didn’t care about the alternatives.

Acquiring MySQL was Sun’s hedge bet against Oracle. Oracle’s investment in Linux was their hedge against Sun. In the end Oracle and Sun’s core customers, their most lucrative, didn’t really care and kept on buying Oracle software and Sun hardware together.

Just because you care about a feature or a product doesn’t mean your best customers will. Listen to how they’re using your product today, assume nothing, sleep on it and repeat. If you’re lucky you’ll learn something in the process.

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