Occasional ramblings of a genealogy-focused web entrepreneur
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
*Someone* seems to like it…
Despite all the usability roadblocks that are probably there, somebody managed to order 9 death certificate lookups on Genlighten tonight. Biggest revenue day ever! :)
I’m prone to those revelations where something blinks and things suddenly make sense but your excitement for this new understanding is clouded by your annoyance that you didn’t figure it out earlier and save yourself mountains of stress and frustration. And sometimes those revelations aren’t even that clear, you know know that you’ve jumped back on the right track somehow after being off it for some unknown period of time, even if you have no early idea where that track is leading you.
Not So Quick Travel Blip | sbdc
I love this description of those oh so big revelations that happen so rarely in life..
(via hiten)
Sometimes they seem to come only when when we commit in advance to act on them, whatever they might be.
Which is more important: tithing or paying off my credit-card debt?
Would that the dilemma were as straightforward as this Slate article makes it sound…
“Joy” by The Autumn Film
via Andrew Hyde
love the sad/happy contrasts, and the way she lets the sustain pedal up at the end.
The ultimate goal of a lean startup is to identify where its vision intersects with what reality can accommodate. It is neither a capitulation to “what customers think they want” nor a willful ignorance of conditions on the ground. It is a company built to learn.
The Promise of the Lean Startup (via hiten)
I *think* we’re built to learn. I sure hope we are…
Alison Byrne Field's Amazing Tribute to John Hughes
When writing is totally genuine, and straight from the heart, it can’t help but be powerfully resonant and trigger a sympathetic response.
There are so many people that don’t care about their past. They are more interested in the here and now. Isn’t that the way it should be? But I believe there also needs to be someone that keeps checking the rear view mirror of our lives so that we don’t go off the straight and narrow path; so that we treasure what is beautiful and unique about our particular family; so that we don’t forget the precious and the notorious individuals that share our genes.
Jennifer from the “But Now I’m Found” blog: My Genealogy Habit
I like the idea of genealogy as the “rear view mirror” of our lives.
It’s really amazing how many startups fail. Not that ideas fail, no, that’s a given — but that as the costs of running a business plunge ever lower so many smart people can’t cover their $4,000/month “don’t die” costs.
Colin Plamondon, How the opportunity cost of a great idea destroys startups
Funny, those are just about our “don’t die” costs, too.
By far the dominant reason for not releasing sooner was a reluctance to trade the dream of success for the reality of feedback.
Kent Beck, Three Rivers Institute blog, Approaching A Minimum Viable Product
also quoted on 37Signals’ SvN blog.
via @garrytan
What is Genlighten’s “vast and endless sea”?
